Well to risk saying what I believe---and I have seen it again and again in other breeds and I have studied it in Cavaliers--I mean exaggerated to mean overdone. Bratt was overdone--my top Wheaten sires were overdone in head-neck and outline but guess what they all prettied up the breed and produced correct type. I believe dogs tend to breed to the average and heads particularly are hard to get and easy to lose--all breeds. I am a head hunter-- especially when breeding,
I am also not saying all closely linebred Cavalier stock loses bone but some does--I like to take note of that for the future. Janet Dalton JEANIE MONTFORD wrote: > 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. ========================================================= "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.
