The Boston Terrier Breed | Ongoing articles about the breed, about showing, about standard and disqualified colors, about miscon
Description: There has been a strange movement happening in the world of Boston Terriers over the pat few years. After spending over a century of trying to eliminate (except for the occasional throw back) disqualified colors from the Boston Terrier breed through reson
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There has been a strange movement happening in the world of Boston Terriers over the pat few years. After spending over a century of trying to eliminate (except for the occasional throw back) disqualified colors from the Boston Terrier breed through resonsible breeding and spaying/neutering an accidental disqualifying colored dogs, many breeders have cropped up all over the country. They are purposely breeding hundreds (likely thousands) of "red", "blue", cream", "lilac", "champagne", "fawn", and "splash" B
Since these colors are considered disqualifiying faults and completely go against the breed standard (the very definition of the Boston Terrier), breeding them could never be done with the purpose of improving the breed. Unfortunately it is often done for profit.
Breeders of these dogs with disqualifying faults promote these colors as if the practice is "innovating" or "preserving" a color accepted long ago. However many of their characteristics were NEVER accepted by the BTCA / AKC standard and they have been disqualified completely from the breed standard for over a century. Even during the very beginning in the late 1800's when many colors were used in the creation of the breed, most had eyes and nose colors that were never acceptable in the breed,even from the v
The Boston Terrier Breed | Ongoing articles about the breed, about showing, about standard and disqualified colors, about miscon