At 8:34 AM -0400 4/29/99, Dean Mair wrote:
>At 07:10 AM 4/29/99 -0400, jan wrote:
>
>>..... We now know where those lethal whites come from, but I bet there
>>was a time that the problems with those pups was blamed on too much white
>>and not on the combination of too much merle gene.
>>        That's my guess about why the blaze fell out of favor...
>
>Me thinks you are looking too deep. There is lots of talk about how the
>collie is a head breed. Everything revolves around the "expression" the dog
>has. Some feel that collies are judged in the ring primarily for their
>head. Its ok if they can't move as long as they have a good head. So
>anything that detracts, in someone's mind, from the "expression" would be
>ignored.

        that answers it fine for the show folks who thought the blaze was
too "common" looking (or so I've been told. But it doesn't explain why farm
folks (the "common" people the show people were trying to seperate the
collie from...) shunned the wide blaze....