What if your rabbit doesn't exhibit the obvious
characteristics of any particular breed?
While experience with a particular breed can help understanding some of the common
characteristics of a particular breed, it's not that important.
Each dog behaves differently in specific situations which are
characteristics of a particular breed.
Not exact matches
Most divergence between
breeds, however, involves many genes, unwittingly selected by breeders aiming to refine the
characteristics of particular lineages.
Instead, they choose
particular strains
of a plant with desirable
characteristics and
breed them to reinforce those
characteristics.
The Chow Chow, Great Pyrenees, Lhasa Apso, Basenji, Basset Hound, Borzoi, and many other
breeds have an ancient legacy and are obviously the result
of breeding for a
particular set
of characteristics and qualities.
Before a dog type can become recognized as a new
breed, a breeder must typically prove that mating two dogs
of this
particular type will result in offspring that have the same
characteristics as the two parent dogs.
We own dogs that have been selectively
bred for their wonderful
characteristics, but also have numerous immune disorders and digestive problems associated with
breeding for a
particular shape, size, or color.Think
of the pug as a descendant
of the wolf.
However, these aren't
characteristics of every
breed included in the toy dog category, so it's important to look into the
particular toy dog you're considering.
Something about that adorable body shape paired with
characteristics of other
breeds (in this case, a chow) is what makes this
particular mix so unique.
Now, over 100 years later, many
of the
breeds described and illustrated in his book are barely recognizable due to
breeding to enhance
particular characteristics.
In contrast, modern dog
breeds are
particular breed standards, sharing a common set
of heritable
characteristics, determined by the kennel club that recognizes the
breed.
The removal
of a
particular characteristic or trait may take one
breeding to succeed, or many more.
The genes encoding these
characteristics become more homogenous or similar between dogs
of a
particular breed or line.
The 15
breeds have been identified by the Kennel Club as having
particular health problems often due to poor conformation as a result
of having been
bred with exaggerated
characteristics.
Breed characteristics provide an understanding
of how active, attentive, and trainable a
particular dog type may be.
JustDogBreeds.com JustDogBreeds.com has written up the pluses and minuses
of over 150 dog
breeds so you can quickly find out the good and bad points about every popular
breed, and discover whether the
particular dog you are considering has the personality and physical
characteristics you want in a dog.
Most
of these
breeds exploded onto the scene over the past 150 years, spurred by the Victorian - era passion for the «dog fancy» — the selective
breeding of dogs to enhance
particular characteristics.
Gastric dilatation volvulus (bloat), associated with
particular breeds and also with large mixed -
breed dogs [24], was restricted to only a few purebred subsets suggesting a common ancestry or a morphological component representing selection for similar phenotypic
characteristics of breed standards to the expression
of the condition.