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Naturally Curious
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I am still learning how this all works. This should be where I write about weird things that I see repeated in breeding that I never read about specifically.
I also have no idea how long a blog/post thingy I can write, so this is the reason I am babbling on and on for no apparent reason
What passes from who ?
This is something that I am interested in, and always have been. Sometimes, dogs pass themselves regardless of any sort of ideas I had, or the internet has, or other breeders have.
I bred Skittles to Nexus. Skittles is tightly linebred, yet her offspring were way way way more like Nexus who is not linebred.
This I find fascinating. My definition of stud dog, is based on how the dog passes his traits on to the next generation. I have bred, as well as observed in other peoples breedings puppies that really are not like their parents hardly at all.
My German Shepherds always passed a large percentage of puppies who just bit the toys. The rest sorta had to have a few tries due to lack of confidence, then they were fine. My socks were always to be bitten, somehow toys in those few that took a moment, were too much initially.
Then, I bred to a Vikar dog, and suddenly had puppies that did not bite me. They did have the super annoying run and get under my foot thing where they try and commit Hari Kari non stop while I am walking.
I am finding subsequent offspring from this breeding to really need to be built from the start with lots of stimulation, AND annoyingly, this passes more often than my puppies who grabbed socks and ankles.