Thread: Breeding and its finer points

Originally Posted by Tussock

What do you guys think of the general health of these "line bred" dogs.

How many live a surgery free life and make it to old age?

The term 'line breeding' is pure anthropomorphism. It's just that inbreeding just sounds so evil!

We all think of deliverance when we hear that word, but from a geneticists point of view all dog breeds are inbred. Inbreeding is how we have created basically every type and strain of livestock, cattle, sheep, fowl, fish, all manner of crops and fruit trees, basically everything we have domesticated for a purpose. And it is how we will further these endeavours, selecting the best, discarding the rest. As Wirehunt says, there is much to be learned in the dog world when we view them as livestock, both in their management and in their breeding.

I think you are hung up on the pedigree dog thing, hence why you put it in the titles of the new section. You have made quite bias comments about pedigee dogs; I feel your take on them is quite frankly misinformed. Can you tell us where you get this opinion from?

As an interesting side note, and a rather irrelevant one at that, other than Lord Buccleughs' Labradors which equate to one side of your dog, did you know that the setter was one of the foundation breeds of the huntaway which equates to the other side of your dog? Meaningless I know, just my dose of trivia for the day