http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2009/01/impending-doom.html A Border Collie Manifesto Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:23:25 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2009/01/impending-doom.html/comment-page-1#comment-584 Edward Diggs Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:34:36 +0000 http://astraean.com/borderwars/2009/01/impending-doom.html#comment-584 Maybe you explain what an 8% coefficient of inbreeding means somewhere else. Does it mean that 8% of the dog's genes, which where received from the father, match the genes received from the mother (in that they come from the same traceable ancestor)? And are there not isolated bloodlines throughout the world where have not been largely mixed with American border collie lines? If this really is a problem then importing some herding border collies from South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia seems like an easy solution. Maybe you explain what an 8% coefficient of inbreeding means somewhere else. Does it mean that 8% of the dog’s genes, which where received from the father, match the genes received from the mother (in that they come from the same traceable ancestor)? And are there not isolated bloodlines throughout the world where have not been largely mixed with American border collie lines? If this really is a problem then importing some herding border collies from South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia seems like an easy solution.

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