hello I would certainly keep a heavily marked Tri-colour if everything else was correct about the dog, markings are at the end of the day the "icing on the cake" and if her temperament, build and movement are correct then she would be a useful adition to my breeding programme.
Some of the Uk Champion Tri-Colours have been very heavily marked too, Ch.Barsac the Palio and Ch.Millhill Le Frere spring to mind to name a couple!! As for losing the tan etc if you keep going tri to tri, I was told that if you keep putting blenheim to blenheim then you would loose the depth of nose pigment and that you should breed to a Tri every third or fourth generation to keep that!! I have also been told in the past that putting heavily marked to heavily marked will break up colour, I think at the end of the day you have to trust your own judgement and go with the results, mark it up to experience whatever the result, I have heard of people who got a fantastic litter from a mating so they have gone back and repeated it only to get nothing the next time (A very well known UK kennel it was too!!) Cathryn ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
