| Pinehaven | 01-01-2008 12:35 PM |
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Originally Posted by BamaFan121s
(Post 1639578)
I understand your frustration to feeling like your question(s) hasn't recieved a strait answer.
I would think the reason the off-color and the black/gold recieve a different reception is because it was only very recently that these colors were deemed 'unacceptable.' Until very recently they were considered standard. You have long standing pedigrees that have these colors variations heavily throughout. They can still be integrated into breedings to bring out desired richness in color and to correct colors that have strayed in an effort to achieve that perfect, standard that is accepted. I would think that as breedings progress, now that they are NOT accepted colors, you will see them being used less and less.
On the other hand, the partis, chocs, goldens, have NEVER been accepted colors. They can not be integrated back into breedings to try to acheive the standard.
At least, that is my take on why...just one opinion of many, I'm sure...:)
| The thing is, black and gold, black and tan and blue and gold adults, have NEVER been the standard, even back to the early written set of standards, it was always blue and tan. So maybe there was an "unspoken" acceptance of black coats in the show ring?
By breeding black coated dogs (who lack the gene for greying) to blue dogs who are not homozygous for the grey gene, you'll be producing puppies with black coats and that should be just as wrong as breeding any other off color ... shouldn't it? Yet it doesn't seem to be for some reason?
And why wouldn't YTCA set an age limit on when a dog must turn blue by? I mean if someone is showing a 2 yo who is jet black without a blue hair on it's body, don't you think that may be a clue that it's going to have a black coat and not a blue one?
It seems that the black coats and golden points have been accepted and allowed to show until October 1 2007, even though those colors were never an adult standard according to the YTCA's rules even from way back. | 