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Originally Posted by OwnedByJezebel  They weren't referring to the pup in this current breeding, the blue born one that you are keeping.
As stated previously, in order for this pup to be blue born, it had to get the gene from both parents, so both your male and this female should be spayed/neutered and not used again for breeding so as not to pass along this gene again.
You also said that your male had been used in a previous breeding. Since your male is now known to be a carrier, the pups in the FIRST breeding will have a 50% chance of inheriting the bad gene from him, so they should not be used for breeding, either. Whoever ended up with those pups needs to know so that they do not breed them and risk passing on this gene. |
Luckily, there are labs that can test for this D gene, so if one of the people who purchased a pup from the litter want's to breed, have the dog coat color tested to be sure the results are DD and not Dd (he'd be a carrier if he had a little d in the results). If he's DD, than there is no problem and he's not a carrier ... it's a 40.00 test.