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Originally Posted by YorkieRose  Remember your sire and dam can be tested for liver shunt and still produce a liver shunt puppy..and they can have good knees and produce a puppy with bad patella's...faults and genetic disease can skip a generation or two..even longer...it is the health of the line that is most important, not the health of one male and one female... |
Agreed, but that doesn't mean that she doesn't need to have her yorkie and the potential sire tested. What if she doesn't know the line her yorkie came from, like SO many owners???????? The most responsible thing she can do in a situation like that where she doesn't know the history of the line is to have her yorkie and the potential sire tested.
ETA: She still needs to have both dogs tested before she breeds...whether she knows the line her yorkies came from or not.