| "The Lily" |
| From White Collie January 1949 |
| Foundation Collie June 14, 1880 - ? |
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The first record of a White Collie is that of a female called
THE LILY, born in 1881.
She had an all white body with sable head markings.
Although we have a three generation pedigree of THE LILY
and all the ancestors were colored Collies, we will just have to conclude
that THE LILY's color was a sport or throwback to some distant ancestor.
The Lily was a great-grandmother of Champion Metchley Wonder,
a dog that I will wager every Collie in America can track back to her, so
consequently, we have her color continually cropping out in dogs
apparently straight colored in breeding. Hence, the start of the present
day White Collie.
Originally printed in White Collie, January 1949
Reprinted in Collie Cues, January 1959
THE LILY, born in 1881.
She had an all white body with sable head markings.
Although we have a three generation pedigree of THE LILY
and all the ancestors were colored Collies, we will just have to conclude
that THE LILY's color was a sport or throwback to some distant ancestor.
The Lily was a great-grandmother of Champion Metchley Wonder,
a dog that I will wager every Collie in America can track back to her, so
consequently, we have her color continually cropping out in dogs
apparently straight colored in breeding. Hence, the start of the present
day White Collie.
Originally printed in White Collie, January 1949
Reprinted in Collie Cues, January 1959
