Oak Ridge
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Re: Preach on Brother!
quote: Originally posted by highyellerdog
Thats the truth man but you can't get people to listen about it, all those years of controlled experiments are just wrong I guess. Kinda like some people still believe that the world is flat, we never went to the moon, and Elvis is still alive. Same mentality.
I got an inbred pup. Her front leg joints look real bad and I dont know that she will be able to stand on them all of her life.
Nobody said that there were not risks involved with inbreeding. The simple fact is that those risks do exist.....
However, the other very simple law of genetics is that you can not breed in those defects through inbreeding that do not already exist. They may very well be deeply embedded in recessive genes, but they exist none the less.
I've seen total 'outcross" dogs that have bad front legs. Did either of the parents, or grand parents, aunts, or uncles of your inbreed pup have bad feet or legs? Did any of them have any joint problems at all....how about hip dysplasia.
Again, the best way to find a genetic fault is through inbreeding....and in my mind, all of the stud dogs should be mated with a close relative before being offered at stud. That way you would find the studs that pass on inverted eyelids, hip dysplacia, and any other number of genetic problems prior to breeding half of the females of any breed, and further embedding the genetic mud (problems) in the obscurity of recessive traits.
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