I took different quotes and piced them together from the same chapter, here is the exact wording fromt he book where ist pertains to the Dandie Dinmont.
"It has been purported that the all grey coat ( or in more official terms the all blue coat )was used so that in future litters all one color ones were mated to the black and tan toy terrier or the dandie dinmont ( which cross would spoil the coat and texture but drop the ears) would then continue along a very severe retain and rejection policy until the breed was at last fixed in body , coat colour and bantam size"
then I skip forward
"even today when maltese whites and such like appear , Again sometimes it is the drop ears of the Dandie dinmont or its broken coat that crops up in the breeding and needs culling"
And Yet again without typing the whole book I refer to this as well
"The Dandie Dinmont-There is no way that a cross with this roach-backed terrier could have improved the looks of a Show yorkie."
I can go on and on in referenc to the Dandie Dinmont but really dont feel like typing out the whole book.,
I will say it has many dandie dinmont and skye terrier reference.
Just my take. ANd she is speaking of how hard it has been to breed out of the YT ( The roach back that is..)
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