one thing we don't look at is ...does it have to be born in ? or can a dog inherit learned traits ? and instinct's ?
That’s something I’ve give a great deal of thought to, breed specific traits such as herding, circle baying, pointing, flushing, treeing. etc. that are well known and established in different breeds all had to come from somewhere, natural pointing dogs didn’t just appear, somewhere at some point in time a dog figured out (maybe with the help of a trainer) how to successfully point birds which I would say was a learned behavior, same way with cur dogs who naturally circle bay, a dog at some point in time had to have the intelligence to figure out that was the most successful way to get the job done, look up on the wild dogs of India, they all look nearly identical and function in packs with precision of a skilled military unit, they are 100% a product of their environment, this is where I think epigenetics could or would would begin. Why do ducks naturally migrate south or certain species of salmon find their way back to their spawning grounds, neither are taught by their parents? where did those traits come ?
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We’ve done the same thing Mother Nature has with coyotes and wolves but only faster through artificial selection...
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