[Belle Noir]

I'm still scratching my head over that one. One would think that one the genetic markers for the breed would be... I don't know... the LONG FUR GENE...

It makes me wonder if a dog that is so off from the breed phenotype.. just how accurate the DNA test is.
I mean, I remember when the test was first released a women did one on her champion Am Staff and it came back half border collie quarter bulldog, quarter boston terrier, and I can kinda see the last two, because the three breeds do share a genetic base, but half border collie??
And in that thread someone did say they knew of a pure shepherd that they had bred themselves for 6 generations coming back not a pure shepherd so... *shrugs* I just don't know.

In the merle thread, someone did say how there are those "gaming the system" by back crossing for color then breeding back to yorkies and these dogs after a number of backcrossing are testing as pure, when we know and they know they're not.

I haven't run into her tonight, but I txt her that thread URL, as well as most of the others that were posted, so she knows what to look for in a breeder... I think the phrase I can show you better than I can tell you apllies here, and I do think me showing her what a high quality yorkie looks like compared to what was being offered on that site showed her better than anything that I could tell her, you know?
I'm just hoping and praying that it gets through to her. It's just sad that sites like that even exist. It's sickening that there is such a demand for dogs that isn't being met, and so these people have a ready market for their poorly bred dogs.
All dogs to deserve homes, all dogs deserve to be love... But let's be honest, not all dogs deserve to be bred. And if fewer people bought these dogs, fewer of them will be bred.