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Originally Posted by hottpixie5
how is she "mismarked" i've always found the explainations i've read online to be a little fuzzy and accompanied by pictures of severely mismarked dogs (ie: white on backs, white head, etc)....thanks
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White should not go past the shoulders or above the elbows. White on the face should be "narrow blaze". White should not touch the eyes. We do allow for a little more there, but she appears to have too much white on her face (looks to touch her eye rims), and possibly too much on her back, going past her shoulders.
Too much white can result in a "whitely" puppy which can be deaf. There is a reason we don't want corgis with too much white bred.
Besides the white it's the health tests you should be asking about. Your boy should have them and any female he's bred to should have them.
And IMO, anyone who breeds should have a goal in mind. They need to know the assets and faults on each of the dogs according to the standard. You don't want to be breeding two dogs with the same faults.
The best way to learn this is to show your dog. If you don't show then chances are you do not know how to apply the standard to your dog. Or how to recognize the faults and how your dog compares to others.
Does the owner show his dog? Have the health tests been done? What about your boy? Your responsibility to any puppies is to try to create puppies as healthy as possible and as close to the standard as possible.
Peggy