Ms Tic Crone Original

There is no BLUE EYE disqualifications in the AKC standard which reads as follows ----------- *Eyes* - Almond-shaped, set wide apart. Dark-colored dogs have dark-colored eyes, and lighter-colored dogs may have lighter-colored eyes. Eye rims match the coloring of the dog. Nowhere in the AKC breed standard on eye color is A color even specified. The Chinese crested dog is not a manufactured breed, meaning someone did not take two or more existing breeds to product a new breed. The dog that we see in todays show ring is not the same type of dog that was in the show ring in the 1800s because in an effort to improve the breed to suite someones personal opinion many early crested breeders bred into the crested bloodline other traits. In my 15 years of breeding the Chinese crested I have had throw backs that look like poodles, Chihuahuas, Yorkshire terriers, Maltese, Jack Russell and even an Italian greyhound. Not to say that todays crested is not more appealing than its ancestor; it is just not the same dog, it now reflects the human interference instead of the natural primal genetic memory of the breed. The issue at hand is the natural inherent color of the Chinese crested eyes. The more brown you see in the eyes the more domestic interference is behind the color. There are breeders and persons connected to the opinions of the Chinese crested breed that rebel against the blue eye in the breed. This response is most likely due to the fact that the fixed stare of the blue eye is threatening to them so instead of enjoying the unique beauty of the color they over react and want to eliminate it from the breed. This is the same impulsive reaction that most persons have when they encounter a spider or a snake in their environment and KILL IT. In wild k-9s such as the wolves the iris is often a pale blue and this unnerves many viewers as they feel threatened by the eye that seemingly looks through them and not at them. Todays inadequate maturity of the viewer that opposes the blue eye puts the natural beauty of this breed in danger of losing its one remaining connective link it has to the primal ancestry the Chinese crested is entitled to. The blue eye is native to the crested as it is the wolf and the dingo. Blue eyes in the Chinese crested breed is part of an important link to our K-9 ancient history.
The crested sometimes throws a single blue eye matched with a complimentary color and rarely throws both blue eyes. The gene that produces the blue eye in the crested is not the merle gene which in some breeds will cause other health issues as deafness and or blindness. It has been my challenge in past 14 years to predictably produce double blue eyes and in this time I have not witnessed any health issues that accompanied the color of the eye.
	In 1995 the national Chinese Crested Show was held in Dallas Texas and I was there proudly showing my dogs. At this Show the American Chinese Crested Association had their yearly business meeting and since I was then a member I was entitled to attend and voice my opinions and I did. One of the major topics was changing the AKC standard to divide the show classes of hairless and powderpuffs but the major issue was to disqualify the blue eye. There is no disqualifications in the AKC standard for the crested breed and that is the way it has been from day one. A group of persons seemingly with the real best interest of the breed were comparing AKC standard to the English standard which disqualifies the blue eye. The argument was on for the bigger part of the meeting and I defended the blue eye.
The opposition group failed to make their issues pass so they formed a BOYCOTT group and for the past 13 years have attempted to convince all crested newbie and new owners in the ring as well as influencing the judges to down the blue eye. This group has encouraged all breeders not to breed the blue eye in an effort to breed it out of the breed. It was impossible for the English breeders to breed the powderpuff out of the crested bloodline and it is impossible for any crested breeder to breed the blue eye totally out of the crested. My personal challenge since this meeting in Dallas was to promote the blue eye with all the effort that I could and since I am one of the largest and best kennel in the United States I have had access to ample blue eye carriers that have successfully chart the double blue probability. Today I have 3 to 4 generation of blue eyes or blue eye carriers and can predict blue eyes in 90% of the litters that I breed for blue eyes and 60% of them are double blue eyes.
	Several years ago I had a male with a handler and he was showing under the late Joseph Rachaunis at the show outside St Louis Mo so I went to watch him show. Since Joseph was a friend of mine and he and his wife Phyllis had been at my home several time for the purchase of puppies I considered it proper to ask his opinion on the beautiful blue eyed bitch I had with me with the intentions of future show. After the show I approached him with friendly conversation in the course of which I brought his attention to the bitch I was holding and ask If I presented her to you in the ring how would you judge her? he answered that she was beautiful and should champion fast. I then pointed out the fact that she had two blue eyes and his remark has been etched in my brain from that day. I WOULD NOT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THAT was his reply. How could a judge, knowing that the AKC breed standard did not disqualify the blue eye make a remark like that and still judge the entire dog in accordance with AKC regulations. The reason is simply that the group of boycotters had successful brainwashed the judges into believing that they were correct in customizing the breed to suite their fancy.
I have to admit that things are changing and thanks to judges like Charlotte Patterson who is not afraid of blue eyes and Sandra Goose Allen who recently gave one of my blue eye boy a major on his first trip into the ring and Judy Webb who gave him a 5pt major with best of breed. I am quite sure many more judges have figured it out by now that blue is ok in the ring and is here to stay.
	Other hairless breeds also share the blue eye gene with the Chinese Crested.