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Originally Posted by pstinard  That may be true if you're trying to create a new breed of dog, but NOT if you're trying to maintain and improve an existing breed of dog. There is nothing old, new, heroic, trippy, or rainbowesque about slipping a mongrel into ones breeding lineage--it's dishonest and unethical. |
Pstinard: research what the solution was for the rampant hyperuricosuria defect in Dalmations.
I should not post, as my memory is a little vague on the details. But the breeders were asleep at the switch as it were, and finally had no viable breeding dogs to breed as this dominant gene was rampant throughout the breeding world of Dalmations.
Now one very brave breeder did something about this. How-ever his motives were to save this lovely breed, and did it very knowingly and with knowledge. He did have to outcross, and then spent a long time, breeding back into purebred Dalmations without this very un-healthy gene.
What this person is doing, is not of the same ilk, in my mind.