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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Oh, no thanks, that is more than sweet but I think I put you in a bad position and I'm sorry. I would not ask you to do that, provide me a free version of what they charge to read. I'd thought that even if behind a firewall it was okay for all interested parties to read this since they had allowed renting for free and that I was just doing something wrong in how I was trying to access it - clicking on the wrong thing or something. Don't you worry about it - I'll read those other article links you so kindly provided.
This MARS test result has quite unsettled me and unless that lab is just truly producing a very faulty product and passing it off as a reliable test for breed determination, I would love to know more about how likely a very atypical pup, both coat-wise and conformation-wise, is to come from purebred Yorkies whose lines from both sides have always closely adhered to the breed standard. |
I think that the article behind the pay firewall is a review article that summarizes the research in the other full articles that I was able to link to--I'll know more on Monday when I get a chance to read it myself--so maybe you're not missing out on anything. At any rate, I'll let you know. If the truth be told, people email articles back and forth to each other all the time--the publisher just doesn't want people to make a habit of it. Those other articles will definitely make for summer reading, and if you finish reading them before me, you'll know more than I do and be able to explain it to me
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I think that the safest thing we can say about the MARS test is that it can tell if a dog is
at least 90% purebred Yorkie, but it can't tell you whether a particular dog adheres to breed standards. And don't forget the photo of Minnie's mother--she didn't look like she adhered to breed standards anyway.