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Originally Posted by JeanieK  Right there lies the problem. We cannot get the coloir approved withlout breeding them, we cannot breed quality dogs without quality stock.
The original registered parti colored dog, Nikko's Mickey Spillane, was sired by a champion. I imagine he was a very well built dog, with silk coat and all. But over the years they have been bred to some poor quality dogs.
We would like to try to get them back to the standard, in every way except the color. in order to do that we need some quality dogs to breed to. Silly me I was going about it the hard way, by looking for someone to sell me a nice dog. apparently others are trying to champion their carriers in order to get quality dogs.
We are told over and over to show your dogs, so you know you are breeding quality dogs. Oh but don't show them in our show ring.
So that leaves us in a bit of a pickle. I guess the YTCA will have to figure out a way to identify and DQ the carriers. |
Well thanks for that response which in no way answered any of the questions I asked. I find it interesting, that there is no informative responses to my post (yet).
So not to belabor the points I made above but only to re-iterate, why is the YTCA so against moving to a subsect of the breed in terms of colour?
Are there any concerning genetic reasons for this? \WHERE is the data?