> Do let us know when you come out from under the mountain of paper what > conclusions you have arrived at! VBG
I don't have a mountain of paperwork because the only results I seem to have access to are on the OFA database, so I look there. When I ask for paperwork on dogs not listed there (we are talking in the States now), I rarely get them for some reason. As for conclusions--I have come to one. I never realized before how many breeders attempt to improve polygenic faults by breeding phenotypically *clear* dogs. No wonder they feel breeding tested *clear* dogs provides so many *surprises* and therefore *guarantees* so little and is not all that it is cracked up to be. They are right--breeding phenotypically clear dogs does provide a lot of surprises and doesn't work all that well. BUT, if you know quite a bit of the genotype of each dog, there ARE no surprises! The answer is to fully test everything you can and make the results easily available to all--then we will be much better able to ascertain the genotypes of our dogs and REAL improvement will begin. Laura Trunk Roycroft Cavaliers ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
