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I'm going to answer a few questions, but then, I am also off this thread if there isn't an apology to @Geena Sighthounds aren't good with off-leash training because they were specifically bred to see something and then book it. You know how in the movie Up, the dogs will be talking and then...

Read this, it says "prone to excessive barking" several times. They also tend to not tolerate small, pokey, grabby children. Some dogs will happily put up with the tugging of tiny hands, Schipperkes are a lot more likely to nip and then hide until the tiny terror is gone...

Just keep dividing. You'll never get to zero, but you'll get to functional zero. 6th is 1.56 7th is .78 It halves with every generation

You mean, could you breed her to her great-great-great grandson? Well sure. That's simple math. Her son has 50% of her genes. Her grandson, 25%. His son has 12.5. His son has 6.25. And his son, gen 5, has 3.12% of her genes. Breeding dogs that are 3.12% related is certainly an acceptable COI

Genetic diversity is best served by keeping a large breeding population, not by rushing to the next generation. If you have a dog and it's great grandpuppies all reproducing at the same time, you have more of a breeding population, and while those dogs are related, you have many variations on a...

On average, not as an absolute truth. Which is a matter of economics, not quality, as far as breeding is concerned. Also, people want to advance, next, next, next. This isn't always a good thing - they're not iPhones, where you want to rush to the next gen. Proven dogs are just that - dogs who...

If a 15 yo dog is healthy enough to conceive, carry, birth and nurse a litter, that's a healthy dog. It has happened. As humans, we have mental images of a toothless old granny with an infant and we get weird about it, but in animals, it's not an issue. Breeding for them is health related...

FYI, there's no such thing as too old for breeding. Breeding older dogs is how you increase longevity in a breed, and was a substitute for health testing, before health testing was a thing, and still, with some working breeders. Because if a 7+ year old dog is healthy enough to do a job and have...

You look for a breeder that health tests. That doesn't advertise "rare" colors. And that a merle puppy has one solid colored parent.

Nope. And even in double merles, the issue with deafness and blindness is due to lack of embryonic development in complex areas with lack of pigment. If a double merle dog has a colored eye or ear, that eye or ear is fine. If they have piebald instead of irish white spotting, they are far less...

White collies also come in sable and tri And, the aforementioned high-white border collie. Not preferred, but totally healthy

Not even a little bit. It is just a white collie. Notice how the face is fully colored? Even on a double merle (and not saying they should ever be bred) if the dog has color over it's eyes and ears, it won't have issues.

Border Collies will also sometimes have predominantly white dogs with colored heads, and sometimes with ticking.

Without knowing her parents, she is as likely as any other collie to have hip dysplasia or the like, but there are no health issues associated with that color.

This is true. Mistakes are how we learn. But we have to be willing to learn. White collies have been around for centuries, and are as healthy as collies of any other color. The color has nothing to do with merle. Piebald dogs, likewise. And you can breed merle catahoulas together as much as you...

Large dogs. When my 90# GSD goes number 2, I really don't want to have to shovel that up and carry it around. And there are different kinds of huskies. You are thinking of Siberian huskies, who have been bred to be pets. Active, independent pets, but pets nevertheless. I said Alaskan husky...

People have kept every breed of dog in an apartment. What matters most of the time is the time you spend with them, and that they get exercise. Cardigan Corgis do fine in apartments so long as they have mental stimulation and several walks. While there are breeds to definitely, absolutely veto...

Yes, that stuff matters when showing in conformation. However, there are animals where conformation showing makes lots of sense, and animals where it doesn't. In dogs, it should be a minor part of a bigger picture, not the be-all and end-all. In pigs, you can make great advancements when...

GSDs can actually have a wide range of coat lengths. They just can't be lab short or collie long.

Ok, so, once upon a time, dogs were either registered, or they weren't. If your dog was registered, you could show them at any AKC event and venue, and if you bred them to another registered dog, you registered the Whole Entire litter, and then the future owners could also show and breed their...