• Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

    =====================
    Posted 08/15/2025
    =====================


    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

    =====================
    Addendum: 01/10/2026
    =====================


    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

rot x pit

Cat_72 said:
2 animals that share ONE ancestor say, 4 generations back.....you are inbreeding if you mate them?
Click to expand...
I went back and reread everything you wrote and nowhere (until this post) did you mention 4 generations. You did mention cousin to cousin and half aunt/half uncle which is inbreeding.

Ya know what? I don't even like dogs so I'm done with this debate. I was just trying to figure out why it was okay for some to inbreed and call it line breeding when it is not okay for others to inbreed and call it inbreeding. I'll never completely understand "dog people". LOL
 
My bad, I didn't "specifically" say 4 generations, I only said, "A couple of generations".

And this does NOT only apply to dogs....it applies to reptiles as well as anything else being bred domestically.

I did not mention breeding cousins, and the fact that you simply refuse to acknowledge the difference between inbreeding and line breeding surprises me. It all depends on just HOW closely related the animals you are breeding are.

The links that Michele gave were VERY informative, and explains it much better than I can.
 
If anyone reading this is REALLY interested in dog breeding/genetics I highly recommend you start by studying the info on the 14 part website "Of peas and pups" found at...
http://www.dogstuff.info/part1_peas_and_pups.html

The photo is Double Grand Victrix (both U.S. and Canadian Victrix) Howard's Magic Moment produced by my Father.
 

Attachments

  • magic_moment.jpg
    magic_moment.jpg
    54.6 KB · Views: 62
Beautiful GSD!!!

One of my biggest thrills when I was showing was getting to meet CH. Covy-Tucker Hill's Manhattan in "person", lol. I've never been into GSD persay, don't know a whole lot about the lines, but he still stands out in my mind.... an AMAZING animal.
 
Back
Top