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Originally Posted by RachelandSadie  just learning here....watching from both sides and taking it all in. i do honor the YTCA and believe that they will tell us when and if parti or tri color is an acceptable gene or not...until then i think i'm all for the blue and golds, not that partis are not beautiful and cute and maybe in time will become their own dog breed entirely. i guess i'm from the perspective of all dog breeds had to start somewhere, if someone is truely out there mixing different exisiting breeds for the purpose of developing things in the offspring they most desire such as personality, coat, color ext. then i can't say i'm 100% against it. but that's not usually the case and it usually is about money and selling. as a yorkie lover i don't want to see my favorite breeds decline due to too many people mixing them up and loosing the perfection they already have, but i also don't want to say i'm totally against a breeder purposefully mixing two 100% purebred lines to cross into a new territory. does that make any sense at all. |
It does. When you mean cross, you mean cross with a purpose right? Like creating a new breed with a job in mind instead of crossing dogs just for the sake of crossing. (think "designer" dogs)