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Originally Posted by Rhetts_mama  It's not the over zealous show breeder that is to blame. It's the indiscriminate backyard breeder who breeds without thought to the overall health and well being of the breed. The quest to get the tiniest or the "whatever-est" by people who have neither studied genetics or the health lines of their breeding stock has resulted in many of the sick dogs we have today. Those less than ideal dogs are then bred to other less than ideal dogs to create mutts that now carry the faults of both breeds. |
And then these "time bomb purebreds" are then sold and bred to other "time bomb purebreds", completely void of any genetic planning or forethought, and they produce exactly what we all should expect to be produced....catastrophic genetic time bomb "pure breds" that are the very reason articles and "research" has shown "purebreds are being produced with more and more health issues than ever before". The blame lies squarely on the shoulders of ANYONE that breeds ANY purebred, without a thorough working knowledge of the breeding pairs pedigree and lines, for at least 12 generations. Do NOT klame the show breeders and the experienced breeders that have spent YEARS studying and researching the different lines the strengths and weaknesses of each line, and their own breeding stock's pedigrees before breeding two dogs. WE are doing our dead level best to preserve the breed and the breed standard....which is why our stomachs turn and convulse when we see sooooooo many "ooops" breedings, and people buying rescue dogs and then breeding them to whoever has a dog of the same breed!