Canine Health & Genetics Archive

  • And now for the final fact-check of Carol Gravestock’s often shoddy rationalization of inbreeding at Absolut Bullmarket French Bulldogs: We might also say that a breeder utilizing this method [line breeding] has […]

    Inbred Mistakes IV

    And now for the final fact-check of Carol Gravestock’s often shoddy rationalization of inbreeding at Absolut Bullmarket French Bulldogs: We might also say that a breeder utilizing this method [line breeding] has […]

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  • Continuing the analysis of the pro-inbreeding essay over on the Absolut Bullmarket French Bulldogs site: Many people believe that in breeding itself creates genetic disease. This is incorrect. Again with […]

    Inbred Mistakes III

    Continuing the analysis of the pro-inbreeding essay over on the Absolut Bullmarket French Bulldogs site: Many people believe that in breeding itself creates genetic disease. This is incorrect. Again with […]

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  • You know you’re in trouble when the title of the apologia is “The Myth of Canine Incest” and the first sentence of the analysis puts ‘dangers’ in quotes. Such is […]

    Inbred Mistakes II

    You know you’re in trouble when the title of the apologia is “The Myth of Canine Incest” and the first sentence of the analysis puts ‘dangers’ in quotes. Such is […]

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  • There’s a lot of bad information about inbreeding out there, most of it generated by breeders who are grasping at straws to defend the process they have been told is […]

    Inbred Mistakes I

    There’s a lot of bad information about inbreeding out there, most of it generated by breeders who are grasping at straws to defend the process they have been told is […]

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  • Inbreeding is like screwing yourself over and over again. And it produces about the same results.  It starts alone, in the dark, with good intentions but you’re settling for self-soothing […]

    Inbreeding is Screwing Yourself

    Inbreeding is like screwing yourself over and over again. And it produces about the same results.  It starts alone, in the dark, with good intentions but you’re settling for self-soothing […]

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