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Originally Posted by jenniferx
But if information like that isn't known for all these hundreds of dogs then how does a breeder go about basing a sound decision for a well matched mating that goes beyond the individuals in question and their most immediate history?
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Established breeders will know their own lines inside out and backwards - few would want to gain a reputation for being unreliable or selling unsound dogs - it wouldn't do them any favours at all.
My point is - even if you did manage to compile this information - it would be from some / all of the breeders who already do as much as realistically possible in their power to produce happy healthy pups.
The idiots who breed blithely without thought for temperament, health, soundness and conformation will not contribute and continue to do what they are doing - unfortunately, these people still account for the larger proportion of puppies in most breeds - so you wouldn't really be informing the 'informed' world of anything they didn't know before - the breeding world is very small.
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Your idea like many might be nice - but we do have to take a step back and see that there are far bigger problems around than some of the issues that might be covered in such a resource.
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I suspect a lot of pet breeding focusses solely on health and temperament - but outside that, people rarely decide on a whim to just use a dog on their bitch - the thinking usually goes much deeper than that - I know I study at least the 5 generations of a pedigree and often further back if possible - history might be sketchy in some areas - but often you can look sideways at siblings, half siblings etc to build a reasonable picture of the lines - couple this with the growing availability of DNA testing and the history for these conditions nearly always becomes superfluous.