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Just so you know, we don't breed "indiscriminately" we did research it, I obviously missed the boat on this one. We have had 3 litters in 12 years, so not like we are mass producing for the money. It has been suggested we put this pup down as they are a liability for biting, and we could be sued as breeders. There was no way to contact the breeders of our original dog, they have moved away, to research the white factoring. Around here, there are border collie X's with everything, and people still get several hundred dollars for those pups......walk through the dog pound and its border collie this and that. Many farmers don't spay/neuter because it costs money, just ask my neighbor with all of his creepy looking inbred cats......ewwwwwwwww. Owner of sire has had lots of positive feedback he tells me on the white dogs for herding....no I don't think he was hiding it, he didn't realize about the deafness has not encountered it. So maybe thats it for us, will spay her and be done!

my point was that he did not disclose white pups in his past litters until we had 3 of them.... and felt he should, our dog has minimal white, neither are merles (very uncommon here)........

We paid a stud fee to breed our tri colored red dog, to a well bred, imported male, tri colored black/white/tan markings. We had three whites of 5 live pups in litter. All three have black facial masks. They are 8 weeks old. Now it appears that one of the three is deaf....genetically inherited. When I first talked with the owner of the stud dog, he stated his dog has thrown white pups in the past. If you know it throws genetically weaker pups why breed it? I don't know what to do. The white pups don't sell, and the deaf one is a special needs pup now. I feel he should refund the stud fee. Is that reasonable? There were two normal colored pups, one red and one black and white. The person who bought the red wants to use it for breeding. Now I am thinking that may not be a good idea. Should I call and suggest otherwise? :confused: