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Originally Posted by Pinehaven  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.  |
I can only answer for myself but I wouldn't personally buy from those lines anymore and try and stay away from any breeder that doesn't do what I feel is in the best interest of the yorkie breed and standard.
Thank you for understanding my view point and being nice
I try and practice what I preach and stay true to my convictions and on this subject with Parti's I will agree to disagree
I hope you can appreciate and understand it
Donna