This is a pictoral history of how the color blue developed in our hairless dogs. It is an interesting "plus" result of our (Bonnie Turner & Teri Murphy) quest for the "type" rat terrier we wanted to use in our budding AHT outcross programs for Flinthill and Wudnshu. Blue must be present on both sides of the family to be expressed. Blue, (like ALL colors/patterns) works genetically in the hairless just like it does in the coated dogs. We knew we had blue behind the rat terriers we used in our outcross program, but we were focused on "type". We were therefore pleasantly surprised when our first blue hairless, "Luna" was born in the "Celestial" litter, from Hayley and Rowdy. This album is the maternal picture "pedigree" of Hayley, who is the dam of our first blue puppy, Luna. A pictoral pedigree of Luna's sire "Rowdy" will be in another album.
Date(s): February 7, 2005. Album by Bonnie Turner. Photos by Bonnie Turner. 1 - 17 of 17 Total. 5494 Visits.
1 "Monica" (Wudnshu's Devil W/A Blue Dress) Rat Terrier Blue & white bi-color (she had no visible tan) Teri bought this girl as a puppy from a breeder just north of her. She liked her type and thought Monica showed promise. Monica came here to Flinthill for her breeding career of two litters.
For her first litter, she was bred to an AHT and produced two "trindle" (brindle pointed tri-color) pups, and one black and white bic-color.
For her second and last litter, she was bred to a rat terrier "Andy". She produced two blue brindle piebald males, ("Tiger" & "Sarge") one solid blue with white markings female ("Blue Dahlia"),and one trindle male ("Trinny")
2 "Andy" CH Lar-Mon's Black Magic
Rat Terrier, black & tan, with white markings.
When Teri first saw Andy, she called me & said she believed she had found the male we'd been looking for, & for me to send the money! LOL!! I did, & Andy came to Flinthill. He was bred by Monnie Sims, and his blue litter brother Casper, is a UKC GRCH in conformation. A litter sister, Sissy, is also a UKC conformation CH. We're pretty happy with the "type" part of the equation! ;o)
Andy has been the most instrumental Rat Terrier in the Flinthill AHT outcross program.
Several of his coated carrier and hairless descendents are in other notable AHT programs.
3 Andy on the table, patiently waiting for his "handler" to get him set up! ;o)
4 Andy winning RBIMBS at Denham Springs, Louisianna
5 "Sarge" blue brindle piebald (Monica x Andy litter) "What beautiful dogs your f..." View Comments...
6 "Trinny" trindle piebald (Monica x Andy litter)
7 "Dahlia" CH Flinthill's Blue Dahlia @Wudnshu blue with white markings (Monica x Andy litter)
8 "Tiger" (Flinthill's Gotta Tiger BYDTail) blue brindle with white markings (Monica x Andy litter) Brindle is a DQ pattern for rat terrers, so Tiger never had a show career. Because he DID have outstanding type, he was used in the AHT outcross program.
9 "Tiger" When he was bred to "Tess" (TCK's Tess)hairless, for an outcross litter, they produced "Louie" (Flinthill's First Lieutenant) a coated carrier trindle male.
10 "Tess" Trout Creek's Tess at 6 months Hairless, white, black, tan
11 "Tess" at 10 months of age.
12 "Tess" September 2000
13 "Louie" (Flinthill's First Lieutenant) coated carrier outcross White, black, brindle points (Tiger x Tess litter)
14 "Louie" He was bred to "Hope", a coated carrier outcross
15 "Hope" (Lar-Mon's Hope At Flinthill) coated carrier outcross Hope also carried blue,because she and Louie produced a blue and white coated carrier daughter, "Laney" who is now owned by Sharon Blair in Alabama.
16 "Hope" coated carrier outcross, and dam of "Hayley", who is the dam of "Luna" the first blue hairless.
17 "Laney" coated carrier white, blue, tan daughter of "Louie" and "Hope" litter sister to hairless "Hayley", dam of "Luna"
