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Originally Posted by Brooklynn  I will still show what the standard calls for as long as it's healthy. If I produce a healthy parti it will be placed in a pet home and again parents spayed and neutered. Of course it's a recessive gene if it's being produced, genetics is genetics.
Call me hard headed LOL but as long as the rule is in place it's to be followed. I try and not break any rules as that is what I was taught call me weird but I see things the way it's to be followed. Until the standard changes I will abide by it. |
I understand and appreciate your dedication to following the standards.
It's interesting that we always hear "if I produce a parti it will be placed in a pet home and it's parents spayed and neutered." What about the rest of both parent's lines? Will all past and current offspring from that sire and dam be spayed and neutered? How about the sires, dams, brothers and sisters of the parti carrying parents?
Since it may be hard to determine which of approximately 50% of these two line carry the recessive parti gene, will the breeder end both lines and start all over again with new unrelated lines? Spaying the parents of a parti dog, is only putting a band-aide on the situation because the gene is still in those 2 lines ... it will just take the right mating to bring the color out again and if that parti carrying stud was used often, there could be a lot of carrier puppies running around.
