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Conformation and Quality / Re: Is this still a brown Velvet?
« on: February 16, 2007, 03:12:21 AM »
A brown velvet, even one with light colour veiling will clearly have dark "paw spats" (cuffs!) on it's front paws.
e.g. like the mutation colours can have weaker fur than the standard greys especially when it comes to recessive colours like violet and sapphire,
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when 2 like-colours are paired together e.g. dark ebony to dark ebony are paired together like that together over generations to maximise the number of dark ebonies produced without the strengths of a fantastic looking standard to boost them now and again - the offspring generally end up getting more and more fluffy and a lot smaller than the original founding pair, which is the problem we have ended up with, with a lot of them in the UK.
Some people say that some of the mutation coloured chins are more Susceptible to becoming ill than the standard greys, but mine have all been a pretty healthy bunch so far (touch wood!).
I think the grey ones can be very pretty. I bugs me when people say they don't like the grey ones because they think they look boring!
* Edited 'cause I can't spell, lol. *
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Violet (gray with a blue hue)Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Sapphire (gray with a purple hue)
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.....yes and they seem to me to be less sensitive to things that colors seem to be more sensitive to....I think I know what you mean:
e.g. like the mutation colours can have weaker fur than the standard greys especially when it comes to recessive colours like violet and sapphire,
or
when 2 like-colours are paired together e.g. dark ebony to dark ebony are paired together like that together over generations to maximise the number of dark ebonies produced without the strengths of a fantastic looking standard to boost them now and again - the offspring generally end up getting more and more fluffy and a lot smaller than the original founding pair, which is the problem we have ended up with, with a lot of them in the UK.
Some people say that some of the mutation coloured chins are more Susceptible to becoming ill than the standard greys, but mine have all been a pretty healthy bunch so far (touch wood!).
I think the grey ones can be very pretty. I bugs me when people say they don't like the grey ones because they think they look boring!
* Edited 'cause I can't spell, lol. *
I'll amend that later today or tomorrow. 
