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Originally Posted by chachi  There is only one type of blue born and yes they can have some of the terrible problems you have read about or they could be okay but have trouble growing hair time will tell. You need to spay and neuter your dam and sire that passed this on I have read both have to have the gene to pass it on. Its not your fault what happened but you do have a responsibility to make sure it doesnt happen again |
This is one of those things back there in the pedigree, that, when you paired these two dogs together, combined in their pedigree, contained the "ingredients" needed to produce that baby. If you do not know your pedigrees well enough to know who back there, on both the dam and the sire, is carrying that recessive gene, then you need to spay/neuter both dogs. If you DO know who is responsible in BOTH pedigrees, for carrying the recessive gene, and you can study future pedigrees to be sure you do not cross either of these dogs with another dog that carries the recessive gene, then you can continue to breed these dogs, just NOT to each other again, or to another dog that also carries the recessive gene. It requires a ton of study and research....it may just be more prudent to spay/neuter both dogs. This is a genetic fault you do not want to pass along to the future lineage of the breed.