Breeding with in family?

Is breeding dog with family as bad as humans? When human breed with in family they slowly start to become more insane, they get Diseases, deformity, and its just sick. So what do you guys think? Will many APBT start to get more diseases and/or deformity. Even with pedigrees many dogs have the same blood, I observed in the threads here. Many people ignore blood; aunts, half brothers, etc., what will the future have?

 

It should be OK as long as it's a strong healthy line. Inbreeding just magnifies traits. For example lets say you have a dead game dog. He was unbelievably game. While he was alive you bred him to a game bitch of like breeding and now the pups are two years old and showing really good. Well if you breed a game dog to a game dog your more likely to get game dogs so you breed the gamest bitch to the gamest male in that litter. The pups will have 50% of the original dead game dog's blood making them more likely to have his gameness. This is the good side of inbreeding but the bad part is they are 50% more likely to have all his traits, not just gameness. If he had heart disease and you kept breeding that line without culling every dog that has it, it could become a trait of that line. Then you've got a bunch of game dogs that die early or can't finish because of heart disease.

There is a bloodline of bullys called Chaos that has dogs that don't live much past six years. They have cancer and heart problems but are bred anyway. Some Chaos dogs are perfectly healthy but the bloodline is unsound.

Dachshunds are a good example too. I saw a breeder at a show recently who was giving away coupons for $100 off a back surgery to everyone who bought pups from her. Like that's just normal.

 

That might hert the APBT more than it could help, that would increase the chances for a serious Diseases to infect a great line of dogs.

 

Inbreeding, done selectively, is fine. Some of the best breedings are closely related. But the breeder has to know what they're doing and be really picky.

 

Inbreeding animals and humans is different or is it??? Like Dave Chappelle said in one of his sketches if anyone is gonna have sex with my sister its gonna be me lol....hahahahaahahahaahahaahaahahaaaaa

 

Another good example of inbreeding to a fault is UGA. People paying ridiculous amounts for UGA blood, the family tree looks like a broomstick, and physical ailments were bred rebred and magnified. All just so someone could hold up their dog and say "This is UGA's great great grandbaby". Congratulations, your dog died of congestive heart failure at age two.

As with anything...once money becomes the driving factor, the quality of the product steadily declines.

 

Just curious, what's UGA?

 

Me too. What exactly are you talking about?

 

UGA is the Georgia mascot. LuvinBullies, if you keep up with UGA's history, you'd enjoy the book "Damn Good Dogs". It's got great pictures & is a great read about every dog that has portrayed UGA throughout history. It's also interesting to notice how the EB's of yesteryear look like the OEB's of today. Boy has that breed changed for the worst just in the past few years.

 

Thanks! So people are breeding to that dog? Or just trying to get pups from the bloodline he's from?

 

They breed UGA to get the next future UGA. The rest are then sold off for a hefty lump sum of course. And of course people want pups from the UGA lines as it's "all in a name", isn't it?

 

but don't thoses dogs die in a early age?

 

Yep. The average lifespan of an EB is 7 yrs.

Sorry for going OT. :o