I did hear of the odd yorkie being bred with a natural dock but the trait never bred on. Intrestingly a number of years ago a boxer breeder did an experiment to see if it could be achieved by out-crossing to a corgi line with a natural docked tail and see how long it would take to get back to a boxer with natural dock of show standard. It only took about 4 generations all told I think. This was working within the K.C.s own rules which allowed these things to take place to make improvements within a breed and still regester the off-spring. Many breeders have forgotten this and got too snobby about breed purity. This was how desired traits were introduced in the past after-all. He did produce a very nice male which got placed at shows, but breeders over here didn't want to know prefereing the head stuck in the sand method of dealing with issues and he was sold on to a breeder in another country.
I remember years ago while descussing the up-comming ban years ago with another, older breeder while mating one of my girls to her dog and she thought it was never going to happen. |