Chickentrain's Dog Q&A

[black_cat]

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;
https://www.adn.com/resizer/3Lm2XIZ...ads/2017/03/21173151/Iditarod-2017-SS-034.jpg
The dogs that run the Iditarod

Ooh ok, yeah you wouldn't really want the iditarod dogs as pets if you weren't using them for fancy cold weather stuff

 

[black_cat]

ugh I hate fake Pietro

 

[black_cat]

ugh I hate fake Pietro

Sorry I was watching wandavision and chatting to my friend through discord, I got mixed up lol

 

[RiverOtter]

not everybody gets everything perfectly right.

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 like. It is the combination of merle and Irish White that creates a problem. Genetics are complicated, and the full genetics of both merle and the assorted spotting genes in dogs aren't fully understood.

 

[chickentrains]

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 like. It is the combination of merle and Irish White that creates a problem. Genetics are complicated, and the full genetics of both merle and the assorted spotting genes in dogs aren't fully understood.

no health issues come with a dog like this :

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/rough_collie/dog.html?id=2319198-magics-perfect-pearl

??

 

[RiverOtter]

no health issues come with a dog like this :

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/rough_collie/dog.html?id=2319198-magics-perfect-pearl

??

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.

 

[chickentrains]

is this not double merle?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

any dog you see in a dog show is fine, double merles are DQ's

But wasn't that white one you showed a champion?

 

[RiverOtter]

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

 

[EmmaRainboe]

I feel like someone who did school courses on hamsters their whole life then took a college course on fish. I have no idea what’s happening. I’m so lost.