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Odds of a Double Merle Puppy
Posted on February 17, 2012 | 17 CommentsWhen you breed merle to merle, there is a 25% chance PER PUPPY of producing a double merle and those puppies are quite often blind and deaf. It’s not a... -
The Blind Collies of Westminster
Posted on February 14, 2012 | 38 CommentsThere were two blind double merle Collies represented at Westminster this year but if you blinked you would have missed them. I don’t blame you, neither one was actually AT... -
Westminster Rewards Cruelty
Posted on February 13, 2012 | 279 CommentsUpdate: Qualzucht Wins Big at Westminster The son of blind and deaf double merle stud, Wyndlair Avalanche, has won Best of Breed at the 2012 Westminster Kennel Club dog show. You... -
Double Merle Progeny at Westminster
Posted on February 12, 2012 | 154 CommentsThere are 5 Rough Collies invited to compete at the 2012 Westminster Dog show. Those dogs are: CH Colebrae After Midnight GCH CH Clarion Ribbon In The Sky GCH CH... -
February Genetics Quiz Answers
Posted on February 4, 2012 | 5 CommentsQuestion 1 Inbreeding leads to: Increased homozygosity. Increased expression of recessive traits. Decreased expression of dominant traits. Increased heterozygosity. Question 2 An allele: Is one of possibly many variations... -
February Genetics Quiz
Posted on February 3, 2012 | 43 CommentsInspired by the Genetics Survey on Gene Expression and an inquiry from the CanineGenetics-L yahoo group, I figure it might be fun to post an occasional genetics quiz to reinforce some of... -
Gene Therapy “Cures” Dog Blindness Again
Posted on January 26, 2012 | 2 CommentsBack in 2001, scientists first treated inherited blindness in dogs using gene therapy. In that instance it was Congenital Stationary Night Blindness which manifests in Briards and is analogous to... -
Bio-Sensor is Bad Science: Quackery
Posted on January 24, 2012 | 30 CommentsDog culture is lazy and unoriginal, and profoundly stagnant. The desire for easy answers, simplistic how-tos and formulas for success is rampant. Just do this one simple thing! Breeders eschew... -
Unexpected Leonberger Diversity
Posted on January 16, 2012 | 50 CommentsLeonberger history suggests that they should not be a genetically diverse breed. Although they were formed as a hodgepodge of large continental dogs a little over a century ago, two... -
Species Porn
Posted on January 7, 2012 | 26 CommentsAfter the smashing success of my Multiple Orcasms post which still brings considerable daily traffic to the blog from furries looking for orca and vore themed pornography, I couldn’t resist...











