[carmen in nj]

After learning some of the behind the scenes of AKC breeding, I rather not use them, when you sacrifice morals for money is looked down on breeding, well how come is GOOD for AKC to reward a dog that was bred from two dogs that are handicaped and with bad genetics just to obtain a color? sorry but BAD breeding is BAD breeding and AKC is allowing this in their ranks, to me they are as BAD as a BAD Breeder..
the Merle gene is a mutation gene and is a genetic defect..

When you breed merle to merle you get 50 % merle & 25 % solid % 25 % double merle ( these are usually deaf/blind or both or have other medical issues)
two of this dogs were used to breed the dog that was shown at the Wesmister dog show. SO SAD...

I see no reason for a responsible breeder to ever breed merle to merle. It does not increase the percentage of merle puppies (50 % ) But it does guarantee that 25 % will have serious medical problems. Blind, deaf ect. I find it unconscionable to purposely produce puppies that will have these defects. One out of 4 will be.

so let me get this straight, you rather have an AKC registered puppy that will come from a breeder that is well allowed to practice this , instead of a breeder that you can visit and trust, just because of the AKC ranking?