This is taken from this website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_Collie Funny how they have a clearer understanding than the CCA!!!!! Tho they kinda screw up counting the colors. Color Smooth Collies come in four colours: 1)sable (Lassie's colour; can be light gold to deep mahogany), 2) tricolor (black, with tan and white markings), and 3) blue merle […]
Read morePosted by: "Marion L. Johnson" raincrow@centurytel.net colliesncardis Date: Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:42 am ((PST)) It seems to me that things are getting worse with our parent club and not better. No matter what a few vocal people say, no matter what the majority votes to approve or initiate, nothing really gets done. Our […]
Read more"Since the standard does not specifically preclude a Sable Merle it iscovered under the Sable and White color."This theoretically is true…. but in real life the judges only have their standard books ringside… not any statements from parent clubs. So they also run into issues regarding the blue eyes…. On Blue Merles blue eyes are […]
Read more"The greatest enemy of the truth very often is not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." "All truth passes through three stages.First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed.Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Read moreI have opened a Cafe Press store and am offering cool items for sale!!!! Support the Sable Merle cause and order a t-shirt, coffee mug or sticker OR ALL three!!!! 100% of proceeds will be donated to Collie rescue & Collie Health foundations!!!! Come visit my store on CafePress!
Read moreA good friend emailed this to me….. I wanted to send you this my friendfound the original Scottish Collie standard. You know the Scotts, thepeople who actually invented the breed, in 1890, The Collie Club ofScotland drafted the first breed standard. Under "eyes", it states: Eyes, of fair size, but not prominent, are placed rather […]
Read moreMyth/Arguement: If we change the standard here in the United States to include the Sable Merle we are opening up to other things too, like DQ's. The Canadian Standard was changed and it is felt that the standard is the worse for it. This reply was posted by VS. This is not Canada. Apparently in […]
Read moreI found this on the White Collie Club site. Very interesting. The Standard has been changed before and it will change again. It seems that the best way for change in the standard is to have people that are higher up in the organization to be FOR the change! Unless of course the standard review […]
Read moreHere is a list that was just started. It is an OPEN list for all to discuss, debate, educate, and LEARN more about the Sable Merle. This list was started so as not to overwhelm other lists with this issue and because I was kicked off the CCA closed list….. NOT NICE!!! The only rule […]
Read moreQuoting from page 132 of Collie Concept, 2nd edition, 1988 "It is important that we should be aware and understand that there is a variation in the genetic color inheritance factor in many breeds and other species. When it is understood how the color pattern produces, then our tolerance level increases." "A rare commodity is […]
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