[livingdustmops]

Clearly if people would study genetics the Biewers are no where close to closing their studbooks and only breeding Biewer to Biewer. They are going to bottleneck this breed and it will die out. In fact in England they are looking at reopening some of the studbooks for some of the breeds so they could have 99 generation pedigree's...lord the Biewers aren't even close to this number. Many dogs (Shepards, Bulldogs, Cavalier King Charles) are dying slow deaths because it was more important the dog have the "look" instead of the health. How many breeders of Yorkies closed their minds to LS and just kept on breeding when they knew they had a problem? Majority of the breeders simply do not understand COI and what they should be looking at for the long term health of the dog.

Just because one club comes on here beating everyone up and sounding like they are doing everything for the "betterment of the breed" does not make it so. Every breeder who is getting into a relatively new breed such as the Biewers needs to do their own homework and must fully understand inbreeding and what the results will be. Every breeder should be able to fully read pedigree's to see how close some of these dogs are and all breeders should be able to run a COI.

There are some wonderful books but the 1st booik any Biewer breeder should have is the "Genetics of the Dog" by Malcolm B. Willis.

This should not be about politics but when people are rushing to get into AKC dogs will suffer and die. It has happened to many times with new breeds that have gotten into FSS and then had to leave because of what is going on with the breed.

Hopefully one day the saying will not be "for the betterment of the breed" but it will say "for the betterment of the dogs health".