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Originally Posted by JeanieK  Well 1000 pups carrying that gene can produce many thousand more pups. With small hobby breeders, and one time pet breeders, most of those offspring are sold as pets. So although there might be a few dogs produced that carry the gene it will not spread as ffar and wide as a champion dog would.
Again my comment was made to this post. Which indicated that only hobby breeders or onetime pet breeders would spread a bad gene.
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But it's an invalid assumption to make that all 1000 (and I still think that number is greatly exaggerated) pups would be breed worthy and then go on to breed even more sick pups. Those that were not considered breed or show worthy would be placed in pet homes on spay/neuter contracts. And to be very honest, I see a lot more hobby/backyard breeders who breed and sell without spay neuter contracts on their pups, so the potential for bad genes being spread is exponential. Either no breeding dog needs to be tested or they all do. |
I don't think too many people are lining up to breed their girls to a non champion stud.
The potential is much greater with a champion dog. And no assumption was made that all of those pups would be breedworthy, but certainly some of them would. Even if it was only 2% that would then put 20 more dogs out there and so on. The numbers with a non show dog would be much less.
But non if this is answering the OPs question.