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Originally Posted by JeanieK  Yes, dogs with faults should not be bred. A dog that produces a fault does not necessarily have to stop breeding, depending on the fault, the breeder might not want to use that pair again.
Those are your words.
So you are saying that if a pair of dogs produces one puppy that is not show potential, that pair will not be bred again, even though it is a champion and that particular mating has produced other champions? If every puppy in every litter is not perfect???
Those are my words.
Please tell me how I twisted what you said.
Does this go for all faults? Or just the color? If a puppy is born with a slight over bite, or an ounce or two over 7 pounds, or black and gold instead of blue/tan, or a coat that isn't quite perfect. Do you spay/neuter all of those parents too, or just the ones that produce parti puppies?
that was my original question.
Please Explain to me how it works. |
Your original question was this.
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Originally Posted by JeanieK Does this go for all faults? Or just the color? If a puppy is born with a slight over bite, or an ounce or two over 7 pounds, or black and gold instead of blue/tan, or a coat that isn't quite perfect. Do you spay/neuter all of those parents too, or just the ones that produce parti puppies?
I daresay if every dog was spay/neutered that produced a puppy with a disqualifying fault, there wouldn't be very many show dogs. In fact the breed would have died off a long time ago. |
I was trying to say that a breeder does not have to spay/neuter parents who have puppies with a slight overbite or if the are an ounce or two over 7 pounds, or even a parti puppy. I was extremely surprised you thought anybody was even suggesting this. Just because a dog is a champion doesn't mean his offspring will not have faults, but you don't breed
FOR the faults. I've always considered the parti fault a fault like the others, you are the one that has suggested it's much worse than the other faults, and a breeder would take extreme measures to prevent people from learning about this.
I asked a breeder on YorkieTalk, why she was breeding an 8 pound dog. Her reply was that the dog had perfect structure, and other wonderful qualities, furthermore, she knew the line, and her dog was the biggest of her ancestors, so she had a good chance of passing the smaller size genes to her offspring, and she was taking a calculated risk, by using this dog. She had a goal and purpose in mind when she was doing this. She wasn't breeding the 8 pounder because she wanted to produce larger yorkies to cater to those who wanted larger dogs, she was improving her line. When you improve your line you improve the breed. Good breeders do work with each other, they will tell each other the truth about the flaws and strengths of their dogs.