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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. |
Please take the time to watch this rather long video before making a comment about breeding purebred dogs. Since all our purebred dogs in this country got its start overseas, many came with the defected genes that this video talks about. People who choose to breed for health over the look of the show ring standard will correct this unjust that has been done to todays purebreds, while still breeding for the look of a revised standard .