Message #499277

[barlow]

This is just my belief and method. People are gonna breed however they wish to. As for the TERMS inbreeding, linebreeding and outcrossing . . I didn't say they have no place. I merely said that they work for reasons other than the common perception. They work because closely related dogs often have the most in common. It's the genes they share that make it work. Not the fact that they are mother to son. By this same logic . . any shared genes between two mated dogs will double up that factor regardless of family relation.

And I didn't mean to suggest everyone should only cross breed their dogs. I was trying to stress the fact that we are generally breeding for traits. When breeding for traits you want to mate two dogs who have the same desired genetics and will therefore pass it on to the next generation. That two dogs are brindle and called Plott does not make them related or mean that they will pass on like traits (other than brindle). The point in breeding tightly bred dogs is to gather like to like and strain out outside or unwanted genetic markers. It is never as simple as blending blood or breeding one dog to one other dog. You are matching a million genetic markers (in sperm) to a million genetic markers (in an egg). What we call inbreeding increases our chances of matching up like genes and you are absolutely correct in saying it is the most effective method. But if my dog from Breed A is pure dominant for any single trait and your dog from Breed X is pure dominant for that same trait . . . they will only pass on that trait and every pup in the litter will possess that trait. On the flipside .  . if we have littermates and they each have different genetics for say eye color or ear length . . though they are bro X sis . . it will not achieve the intended purpose and is in fact, an outcross to a different eye color or different length of ear.