| More Notes on Breeding "Whites" by Oren D. Kem Lodestone Kennels Marion, Indiana from the book The Complete Collie by Milo G. Denlinger 1949 |
| More Notes on Breeding "Whites" |
| If you think you will study the history of the breed, I think you will find at one time or another that both the tri and the blue were held in low regard and almost threatened with extinction by the dominating sables. In those instances, an informal or, in one case, a formal organized group gathered to preserve them and with their efforts obtained an end to discrimiation against them by judges. Combined efforts put the coat back on the tris, that had so far fallen behind the sables until now most tris are a heavy or heavier in coat than their sable contemporaries. Likewise the quality of the blues in head was improved immeasurably at one stage. So it appears that if there is a sufficient group interested in whites, there is no reason why they cannot take stock and working together make any improvement needed and at the same time publicize the color enough to improve teir chances in the ring. Why be horrified at mating white to white? Understand both the sable and white and the white with sable markings are classified as 'piebald" generically. If there is no albino involved, why sould there be any more worry about mating one or more of the above. While it is possible that white to white would in time lose the sable heads via the blaze route, that could be remedied by occasional return to a plain-faced sable line. However, I do not think it would be unsurmountably difficult to obtain a larger proportion of whites. Certainly I would not be frightened out of mating white to white by albinoism, if I were sure of my dogs' background. |
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