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Those Inbred Lab Mice
Posted on January 1, 2012 | 80 CommentsThe Pure Blood Brigade™ (licensed for use from Jess Ruffner) will sometimes invoke laboratory mice as the go-to example of a perfectly healthy inbred population. Here’s a quote from NSDTR-apologist... -
For Whom the Dog Tolls
Posted on October 1, 2011 | 13 CommentsNUNC LENTO SONITU DICUNT, MORIERIS. Now, this Bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die. PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as... -
Recessive Means Broken
Posted on March 9, 2011 | 11 CommentsGenes are the blueprint for proteins. An Allele is a variation in the blueprint for a given gene, and while humans and dogs (and all diploid organisms) carry two alleles... -
Inbred Mistakes VI
Posted on February 21, 2011 | 14 CommentsIn this installment of Inbred Mistakes, I take on a highly educated and well respected man of letters who is also an experienced breeder: Dr. Bruce M Cattanach BSc PhD... -
We have no Chihuahuas either.
Posted on January 30, 2011 | 11 CommentsIn the last post I documented how the most inbred, most refined, most “perfect” and most human-needs serving fruit, the banana, is also at the most risk for global extinction.... -
Yes! We Have No Bananas
Posted on January 28, 2011 | 7 CommentsOne argument made in favor of inbreeding companion pets is the observation that such practices are routinely used in agribusiness to produce both crops and livestock for human consumption. If... -
Inbred Mistakes V
Posted on November 16, 2010 | 32 CommentsShifting gears from an unrepentant pro-inbreeding propagandist back to fact-checking an otherwise excellent post, I’d like to take my editor’s pen to Christie Keith’s post at Pet Connection called It’s the DNA,... -
![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...](http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/inbred_4_crop-115x115.jpg "Inbred Mistakes IV")
Inbred Mistakes IV
Posted on November 16, 2010 | 29 CommentsAnd 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 III
Posted on November 15, 2010 | 17 CommentsContinuing 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 II
Posted on November 13, 2010 | 13 CommentsYou 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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