> No breeding philosophy is any better or worse than the person practicing > it. No matter whether you outcross, inbreed or do a little of both, if > you don't know what you're doing, and you don't know how to select from > what you produce, you will never be successful for longer than can be > accounted for by sheer luck. > A small gene pool is only a problem if every single dog in the breed has, > and is "pure for," the exact same genetic problem. > I'm not sure this is even possible, much less if it has ever happened in > a breed. Even genetic traits that breeders are selecting FOR are not > completely consistent across a breed. > Some breeds have been around for a VERY long time and have gone thru > bottlenecks and not had much of a gene pool, yet the breed keeps trucking > along.
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