T dog You are hitting on a sore subject. There is no difference in the dogs no matter what the color, they are still Plotts. Back in the early days when Plotts were first registered buckskins were allowed. People started breeding buckskin to buckskin just so they could sell buckskins. As you know anytime dogs are bred for just color the ability starts going downhill. When you breed two recessive genes together you will mostly get that color. There are a few exceptions tho. Al ot of times if you breed to Maltese together you will get skin problems. Kind of like breeding a double merle together you might get deaf or blind dogs.
AKC always registered the buckskins as it should be. Most hunters I know are going to breed for ability first. One of the best Plotts I have had was a Buckskin. Also one of the best Plotts I had threw Buckskins. The Maltese color has always been in the breed also. Now UKC accepts any solid color, Black, Maltese or Buckskin.
Thanks for the kind words on the dogs.
Well said Cajun, breeding for coat color and eye color is the beginning of the end for a working breed.
Merle coat color and colored eyes all but ruined Catahoulas (though there are definitely still some real good ones out there if you know where to look), and the merle coat color is now ruining the American Leopard Cur (Leopard Hound). I can see why registries would not let certain colors be registered because they had the foresight to see what certainly would come after the dog peddlers and fur mommies start breeding for that certain color, though having to think like that sucks and it shouldn't be that way.
On FB a couple of months back I seen a litter of almost all Maltese pups (Registered Plotts), and it had over a 100 comments with people trying to get them with most of those being people that didn't hunt and just thought they were beautiful. Not bashing anyone but that is a bad sign for a hunting breed.
I have some very harsh stances on how registering and titling working breeds should be done but that would need to be a whole different thread lol.
