The importance of your breeding dogs siblings: Just a thought
What importance do you place in knowing the stats, info, and progress of your breeding dogs' littermates? I feel that this is vital information that cannot be taken for granted. For instance, if you are trying to eradicate an issue in your bloodline, and your keeper dog doesnt have this issue, but you find out that in adulthood, every one of the other belly mates suffer from this issue, how concerned would you be about using your breeding dog? If an unknown issue popped up within several of your dogs bellymates, but hadnt been discovered previously in the pedigree, how would that affect the way you use your breeding dog? I believe that as breeders knowing the past pedigree is very important, but any resposible breeder may also want to keep up with the current and recent family tree as well! there is so much we can learn and prevent in our line by observing the siblings of our breeding dogs
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