Well you instance the effect of one particular dog there - but I don't think that we can extrapolate that result generally. I think it very much depends on the individuals concerned as where I have thorough knowledge of my own dogs for instance, most are quite heavily linebred, not in the first 3 generations I grant you but heavily linebred none the less, (one pedigree having McGoogans May Fly 23 times in 7 generations) and I don't see a reduction in bone, nor did I see it in the instances referred to in my previous post. And we also have to think about our interpretation of "bone", "lacking bone", "too much bone" - we can have three people look at a dog and have three different opinions!!! Happens all the time! LOL Oh my..... I hope we are not getting into phen V gen here! <Big grin>
The other thing I would love to clarify is your use f the word Exaggeration. You wrote <<<, would also like to more clearly state that I feel we need more exaggerated dogs used for breeding in Cavaliers--plain to plain begets plain. >>>>> and <<<I don't see enough exaggerated dogs to breed to plain bitches and vice versa>>.. In this case exaggerated would mean "pretty"??? I have never heard it used in this context before - usually when we say "exaggerated" in relation to a dog we mean taken to extremes or overdone. The dictionary gives us "To enlarge or increase beyond the normal. and "To misrepresent by overstating" surely not what we want! VBG I can't see that overdone heads are desirable. or the way to correct plain heads. Don't we want to use a "correct" head? Interesting differences in language and terminology aren't they? Jeanie ========================================================= "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.
