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Originally Posted by RachelandSadie  breezeaway something from your website caught my attention here:
from Joan's book you posted that:
"It is not unusual to find small white marks on one or more toes or a fine white line in the lower fore jaw. These will not be visible as an adult. A large amount of white marks on the chest, paws, jaws, or skull, places a yorkie into a tri-color classification and it is very wise to guard against this possibility. Yorkshire terrier puppies can be born of colors that automatically deprive them of the necessary qualities to become the proper colors of the breed. They can be born all black: all tan: tan with black points; tri-color: black, white, and tan; all blue; bluish grey with tan points; and so remain or change to another shade of their newly born colors. These mismarked Yorkie puppies are not the result of the mis-alliances or throwbacks but are rather the net product of incorrectly inherited genes which have failed to activate the pigment glandular system to providing what they require to be in accord with the Yorkshire terrier standard. Puppies incorrectly colored or marked should not be sold as rare, they should not be registered as Yorkshire terriers, but should simply be found a loving home If one cannot bring oneself to having them put down."
This makes me understand that selling partis as a rare genetic trait or trying to call them a yorkie is NOT acceptable to this woman who is so highly respected it seems to me. |
As I said Mrs Gordon herself believes totally in the yorkie standard. I am not disputing that. I said she said the mismarked dogs should be spayed/neutered and petted out.
What I am trying to educate about is that the parti and other colors
CAN be born to 2 traditional yorkies and by that it does not make them another breed. They are still yorkies, just the wrong color for the standard. As I have pointed out, even Joan had a parti born into their kennel, she registered him AKC because he was a yorkie. She had the parents and him spayed and neutered so they could not pass on this gene. She certainly didn't want to contribute to a color that she did not believe represented the yorkie.
Yes, I understand the yorkie standard, its blue and tan coat is what it is known for more so than anything else about it.
I am not disputing this, I am just showing that the parti can be in the genetics of the yorkie. And I'm tired of people saying they are a mix.
Frankly by all that keep preaching they are a mix, you are calling Joan a liar.
#1 She states they can be born tri color in her book.
#2 She had one born into her kennel from a very long line of Wildweir dogs, and she didnt mix anything into them, she registered her one tri color with AKC.
So I say yes, parti's can be born from 2 traditional color yorkies, that is why AKC opened the registery for them because they were shown that it does happen.