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BTW, is Scooter still on the anti seizure medications to control his seizures? |
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I have not seen Scooter since 2007. |
Ok I'm confused .How can an inbred dog be a pedagree ? Why would you breed a half brother and sister. Third why would you buy one . Why is thread going again . sheesh |
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Half brother to half sister is not line breeding, this is inbreeding. Only the very experienced breeders do this on occassion. Usually when bringing in a new line. It is done to lock in a type, but in doing so you are also locking in faults. So, one has to be very careful when doing and accept responsibility for the outcome. Usually it is done not without the intent of selling puppies. A breeder will keep them and run them through to monitor for months. |
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Please don't think I'm dogging you. But, your statement is incorrect. Should a puppy have a medical condion that can be managed with meds/surgery. A reputable breeder will return the fee of the dog and allow the pup to be kept. This is done to assist with medical costs. |
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I am afraid to many people are doing this without any knowledge or experience or understanding of what the outcome could be. |
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IM amazed by some of the statements by breeders on here |
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To answer your questions JeanieK. Scooter has a full sister whom as of to date now has had NO seizures. Yes Scooters parents were bred to other dogs and none of those puppies ever produced puppies with seizures that I know of to this date. No I was not given a name and number of Mrs McSwains Vet. No I was never given a Vet statement. I have bought puppies in the past and if the puppy was found to have a problem by my Vet, my Vet would call the breeder themself. I have dealt with several Vets in my lifetime and this has been common practice by all those Vets. I did not receive a call from her Vet. Mrs. McSwain, would you please share the new owners phone number with me so I can find out for myself how Scooter's doing since you have not been concerned enough to talk with them in the last 3 years? I in no way come on here to hurt or offend anyone - I'm just here to try to repair my damaged name and felt that these issues needed to be pointed out. |
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You are SIMPLY AWESOME :D:p:D! |
OK, I should probably shut up, but I have to say that genetics are complicated. It's possible for a line to carry a recessive gene (say for a protein chain deficiency) and it will not be expressed for many generations. That's because each dog will still have one good gene that overrides a defect. The line will continue fine until two dogs who both carry it (say half-siblings) breed. Then each of their pups will have a 1:4 chance of not carrying the gene at all, 2:4 chance of carrying the gene and being totally healthy (but now they are both carriers themselves) and a 1:4 chance of getting both copies of the gene and then expressing symptoms. Plus then there is always the possibility of a spontaneous gene mutation that NO ONE could have seen coming, no matter what the lineage. I'm NOT saying this is what happened in THIS case. Just that because only one pup out of a litter is sick and the rest are healthy and because this type of thing hadn't happened in the line before now doesn't rule out that there is a genetic component. |
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