dog em 07
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Alrighty, I have done my research lol It is very possible he is a double merle, both his parents were merle so he could be homozygous. The problems with this is that homozygous dominate genes carry problems like deaf/blind, but I know he is neither of those. I found a test you can get and swab their mouth to find out their genetic makeup, I am going to have it done for sure. I dont want to breed a dog that will pass any bad traits. I did find that a MM dog is usually mostly white, which he is not. I also found that a blue eye/merle coat is a bad carrier of deaf or blind or diseases.
If I get a solid female to breed him to even if he is MM, no pups could be double mere, but would have merle coats.
Any other comments? I know all Catahoula or Leopards have similar issues, its just the breeds because through time they have been bred for color and caused these "issues".
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