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Originally Posted by Pinehaven  Lynn,
If your championed dogs, produced parti puppies, would you make it publicly known? Or would you, keep things quiet, sell the pups without papers and not repeat that breeding? Ya really have to think about it because your reputation and years of perfecting your breeding stock and show lines could be destroyed if it became public knowledge that your lines carry these recessive genes. |
This is the part of your theory I have a hard time accepting. I don't think a good breeder would keep it quiet. I think she would place it in a pet only home with papers, but she wouldn't breed it, and she probably wouldn't repeat the breeding that produced it. I do believe she would tell the breeder she got the dog from, and talk to others about this. I do believe that many breeders would do this, and every good breeder would. I really don't think the show lines would be destroyed at all because according to some as a recessive trait, it wouldn't be worrisome, unless you breed two dogs with this trait. Again, if this person is worried about her lines and being shunned by the YTCA, she's isn't a good breeder, she just interested in her own pockets and not bettering the breed.