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  • The Pure Blood Brigade™ (licensed for use from Jess Ruffner) will sometimes invoke laboratory mice as the go-to example of a perfectly healthy inbred population. Here’s a quote from NSDTR-apologist […]

    Those Inbred Lab Mice

    The Pure Blood Brigade™ (licensed for use from Jess Ruffner) will sometimes invoke laboratory mice as the go-to example of a perfectly healthy inbred population. Here’s a quote from NSDTR-apologist […]

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  • Sweeping comparisons between wild animals and domesticated pets are dangerous given the unique and often mutually exclusive conditions in which those two groups often find themselves.  Wild animals must hunt […]

    Lessons from Island Wolves

    Sweeping comparisons between wild animals and domesticated pets are dangerous given the unique and often mutually exclusive conditions in which those two groups often find themselves.  Wild animals must hunt […]

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  • NUNC LENTO SONITU DICUNT, MORIERIS. Now, this Bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die. PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as […]

    For Whom the Dog Tolls

    NUNC LENTO SONITU DICUNT, MORIERIS. Now, this Bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die. PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as […]

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  • Genes are the blueprint for proteins.  An Allele is a variation in the blueprint for a given gene, and while humans and dogs (and all diploid organisms) carry two alleles […]

    Recessive Means Broken

    Genes are the blueprint for proteins.  An Allele is a variation in the blueprint for a given gene, and while humans and dogs (and all diploid organisms) carry two alleles […]

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  • In this installment of Inbred Mistakes, I take on a highly educated and well respected man of letters who is also an experienced breeder: Dr. Bruce M Cattanach BSc PhD […]

    Inbred Mistakes VI

    In this installment of Inbred Mistakes, I take on a highly educated and well respected man of letters who is also an experienced breeder: Dr. Bruce M Cattanach BSc PhD […]

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