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Originally Posted by Pinehaven  Lynn,
If your championed dogs, produced parti puppies, would you make it publicly known? Or would you, keep things quiet, sell the pups without papers and not repeat that breeding? Ya really have to think about it because your reputation and years of perfecting your breeding stock and show lines could be destroyed if it became public knowledge that your lines carry these recessive genes. |
Actually I would make it public and tell the breeders that bred the dog in question about the problem I think any reputable breeder would want to know this info! I know that I would want to know! And if it was actually found to be in, lets say, my CH. Rowdys line and he was the one that produced the color, I would have him and any offspring that he produced that I would eventually use for breed/show neutered and spayed. I dont sell on open registration, so any puppies that I may have sold would already be fixed. But in almost 30 years of breeding Yorkies, I have never come across this fault nor know any other people that have, be it show/hobby or bybr. With the exception of three back yard breeders and I know that one was registering mixes with AkC and the others had multiple breeds.
I see no reason to keep quiet when faults are being produced, be it color or patellas, etc.
Statistically speaking, if you are saying that the parti gene's culprit is Pompy then with the thousands of crosses to him over the years must have produced at least 1/4 parti colors. The frequency is just not there.