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Originally Posted by Elle  I thought we already went over this. SIGHS.
Was there a bitch? Oh, that's right. Again another maltese breeder right? How many breeds of dogs do they breed? Yep, we've gone over it. You don't remember her. You jut focus on him. |
I don't remember anyone that you refer to, but it doesn't matter. The implication by the poster that I was replying to was that parti's are showing up because unscrupulous Parti breeders are sneaking their dogs in to new, traditional, lines. And what I'm saying is that the genes are there in those lines because traditional colored breeders chose to hide the fact, with the blessing of the YTCA and AKC, that they had the parti gene in their lines.
The fact is, the Yorkshire Terrier, as we know it today was bred from several different breeds of dogs, some of which had different coat colors. One of those may or may not have been the Maltese:
British dogs, their points, selection, and show preparation, by William D. Drury, pg 582 published 1903, L. Upcott Gill, London, and Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (no ISBN) Quote: "I think the Yorkshire gets the softness and length of coat due to Maltese blood".
That being the case, it is only logical that some of those early ancestors continued to carry the gene for the white coloring. That would be carried on through their progeny, but only expressed when bred with another dog who also carried the gene.