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Like how white cats with blue eyes are almost always deaf?color can sometimes be the source of health issues
like merle causing things like deafness, blindness, and skin cancer
and albino dogs having issues like blindness and deafness
blue and white dobermanns having alopecia and other skin issues
this is why breeders will stay away from such colors, or make sure 2 merle dogs never get bred together, and no two merle dogs with extreme white face or piebald get bred together
but there are also colors that have been deemed not ok by show standards, and while these colors are perfectly fine, they are not standard. The dog may not be less quality than its littermates, but it is a undesired color and breeders will try not to breed it. Fancy colors are often bred by byb breeders, so any dog you see that is a color off standard, may not automatically be from a byb, but it is a concern
Like splash in chickens?