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Originally Posted by Woogie Man  Yes, while many faults can be bred out, it seems like breeding for the parti color is rushing headlong into a lot of potential grief. The details of where the gene came from is irrelevant. Why breed FOR a trait that is known to cause health issues? |
Not all dogs who are white or parti colored, have hearing problems. There are many breeds with those colors who don't have higher than normal deafness rates in their breed. Deafness is often seen in breeds when there is increased amounts of white colour in the coat
and blue eyes . We have not seen problems with the Parti's and they've been breeding now for over 10 years (not that that is a long period of time but you'd suspect we'd be seeing some problems during that length of time?)