Dog thread!🐾

[SpotTheCat]

People get the same way when one of the fish breeders I watch talks about culling low quality and deformed fish when he starts to lessen numbers. The number of people that want him to raise and cheaply sell very deformed fish because they don't want them killed is alarming

People are really weird. “You shouldn’t force animals to have children!” While they have children

 

[fluffycrow]

I will do that then!

Maybe I should make an article on why its a bad idea to get a giant schnauzer to guard your livestock

Make it and we'll send it to a certain Arizonian homestead

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Stacks and poses of today! Tuckers is getting better and Denver seems to not want to place her back paws right.
Denvers

And Tuckers

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Next week im going to get boards or something instead of paper to place Tuckers paws on to help him.

And Denver wouldnt even touch her paws to the paper. Apparently its something she doesnt like.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Scaly dog time

 

[SpotTheCat]

here is what I have written so far! I haven’t sent it to be proof read yet feel free to point out any misinformation I might have! (I hope there isn’t any)

Or any ideas what else I should add

Spoiler: Article on inbreeding so far

A common misconception is that inbreeding is only bad, the less the dog is related the healthier they are.



The reason why inbreeding can cause more health issues is because related animals more of the same genes, so the more variation the fewer chances of recessive genes matching up. But the flip side is that goes for healthy genes as well, its much easier for the health issues to hide and randomly appear again when there is more variation



The less related the less predictable the outcome of the breeding



Predictability means we can make better choses when pairing dogs. By having a smaller gene pool it’s easier to breed out or keep health issues under control. Breeders can learn what issues or strengths their line has, which means they can make a better decision on which dog should be bred from and what dog to breed their dog to



There are many, many! Health issues genetic or unknown, some testable, others not. There are some health issues that are in multiple different breeds but are caused be slightly different genes where its best to use a test that is specifically made for the gene we know appears in that breed!



Once you mix breeds you don’t get rid of these genes you simply mix them all together!



Another misconception I have heard people say is that designer breeds such has labradoodles are healthier because the few breeders who do test, test for more health issues then purebreds. As I mentioned before there are many different health issue, so how do people pick which tests are needed? By how many dogs get affected by the issues. Like everything with breeding its not actually such a black and white answer!



There are 3 different categories:

-The health tests that have to be done (many dogs where/are affected by it)

-heath tests that don’t have to be done (few dogs are affected by it)

-heath tests that aren’t considered at all for the breed (very few to no dogs affected)





For example english springer spaniel (in the uk) do not require hip tests since its not really a issues in the breed, some breeders still test for it but it isn’t necessary like it would be for german shepherds.



There are also many breeds that only require hip tests and thats it! I have found the more health tests the breed requires the more popular the breed is or was, more bad breeders = unhealthier dogs

 

[fluffycrow]

I'm loving this so far! It's going to rustle some feathers (or fur), and I'm here for that as well . One small fault, in the second to last paragraph, where you talk about hip tests, you write "it's not really a issues in the breed". Good luck with the rest!

 

[SpotTheCat]

I'm loving this so far! It's going to rustle some feathers (or fur), and I'm here for that as well . One small fault, in the second to last paragraph, where you talk about hip tests, you write "it's not really a issues in the breed". Good luck with the rest!

Thank you ! Words are hard

 

[fluffycrow]

Thank you ! Words are hard

Just you wait till you write in two different alphabets

 

[SpotTheCat]

Just you wait till you write in two different alphabets

I can barely write in one! I did try to learn some japanes while ago