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Originally Posted by Rhetts_mama

You missed the point, again. It can take several generations or more for a breeder to know they have the Parti gene in their lines because you won't get a Parti pup unless you breed two Parti carriers. So just because a breeder has ALWAYS produced traditional colored pups does not guarantee that they are carrying purely traditional genes. They may be registered and championed, but that doesn't mean jack either. We've read on here time and time again that the "flawed" pups were culled and never registered, and with the best of the breeders- programs discontinued. But that didn't happen until one of the pups appeared. What about the pups that occurred in the line before that? Just because they appeared to be traditionally colored doesn't mean they had the double dominant gene. These pups were sent out to other breeding programs to continue producing pups that carried the recessive gene. And so on, and so on...

It's the (centruy long) head in the sand attitude of the YTCA and AKC who would like to either pretend these pups don't exist or that they have to be the product of some breed mixing that has allowed the very existence of the Parti's as we know them today. If they were recognized and registered as such (which is only beginning to happen with the AKC), then lines would more accurately reflect what could potentially show up.

As to what the Biewer breeder reportedly said, I can't respond to it since I didn't read it. But I will say that particular problem would be resolved if the YTCA would stop putting up walls to the fact that Biewers ARE Yorkshire Terriers with white markings.

That's it in a nutshell folks!!