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Originally Posted by Marhcarter  Horrible! There is a reason the chinese crested always wins the ugly dog contest every year. I remember Iin another thread, pstinard said that the short hair gene is always dominant. I wonder if the hairless gene is the same way? If so, a huge number of hugely defective dogs could be created very quickly, as opposed to the careful breeding that it takes to better the breed. Scary thought...  |
Hi, in most instances (like the Chinese Crested), the hairless gene is dominant. There is one breed of dog with a recessive hairless gene, but I suspect that the hairless dogs in this ad are due to the dominant gene. The dogs with the dominant hairless genes tend to have health problems, and the dominant gene is homozygous lethal in the womb, so those dogs never even get born
. See this wikipedia article for more information:
Hairless dog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia