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Originally Posted by Woogie Man  There were too many posts for me to quote and reply so I'll just say this with apologies in advance to those that have posted civilly. What has been posted here about the piebald (parti) risks is factual. What has been posted to counter those facts are observations with no facts. If you had any facts, I think we would have seen them by now. While your observations may be true, so would mine be if I said that I've never seen any liver shunt or luxating patella in my dogs so it must not be a risk. Kinda ridiculous, huh? And no, I've not written a book  but that's the real kicker. I claim no expertise on the subject but was easily able to find tons of good, researched info that was apparently news to some of you that are actually breeding parti Yorkies. From what I've read, many of those breeding partis with other breeds are at least aware of the added risk and aren't in denial. This whole discussion could have ended if you had said something like, "Yes, we're aware of blah, blah, blah and are doing such and such to guard against it". Instead, what I see are flippant remarks and sarcasm. This never was about 'parti bashing'. I really don't have anything against partis and think they can probably be safely bred but not by those that won't even acknowledge the added risks associated with breeding them. |
I said right from the beginning that we would watch for that and change our breeding practices if that happened. the only other alternative is to not breed at all.
No one, including you, seemed to be satisfied with that answer. You all kept harping on it.
We are not ignorant, we know there are risks as there are with any breeding program or anytime some one ventures into unknown territory. But that has not stopped people in the past, and it won't stop us.
all we can do is tell you that we plan to do it responsibly, only time will tell the outcome.
we've been told we are in it for the money, that we are ruining the breed, that we are going to produce deaf dogs, that responsible breeders breed to the standards set by they YTCA, like the YTCA created them.
We've heard it all and we are not going to stop. so you can ll quit harping.
As for the facts. You have yet to produce any facts of any parti colored yorkies producing deaf puppies. True it has happened in some other breeds, but equally true that it has not happened in all other breeds.
We cannot prove something that never happened.
All pioneers go through this same sort of ridcule, yet they proved that the earth was not flat, that life did exst on the other side of the mountains etc. but they could not have proved it if they had litened to all the nay sayers.
I bet way back when, they were told that they could not possibly turn a 100 pound wolf into a 5 pound, long haired, two toned dog, had those people listened, we would all have pet wolves.
parti colored yorkshire Terriers are here to stay. Get used to it.