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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  I'm not trying to "prove" anything. There was a member who asked the question in the past year because her dog was deaf. I actually am trying to learn something. I try to share with others, what I have learned. I don't believe there has been shown any correlation between the Yorkshire terrier parti and deafness, but the purposeful breeding of this parti trait is rather new, and I just hope breeders will be honest about it, since the piebald gene has been linked to deafness in other breeds. I really love the Yorkshire terrier breed, and it really bothers me what breeders have done to other breeds. I post on nearly all the threads that deal with good breeding practices, for this is something that holds a place, close to my heart. |
It seems that you are now trying to lessen what you originally wrote and what you were trying to insinuate about the parti Yorkie by saying that you were talking about the parti as a whole. You even said that there is a member here that owns a parti and claimed it to be deaf. You say that you are only to learn and that's great, if that's really your point to all of your posts in part threads...so if this is truly the reason, why did you feel the need to embellish to prove a point about the parti?
By the way, I just now looked through some of the parti threads and the first one that I looked through about deafness and a parti Yorkie was this one:
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...dilly-o-2.html
I only see this topic briefly discussed and it certainly was not the tri-color being predisposed to deafness...to the contrary actually.