Sentences with phrase «occur in purebred dogs»

All kinds of dogs — purebred, crossbred, and mixed — but the risk of health problems occurring in a purebred dog is higher than in a crossbreed or mixed breed.

Not exact matches

Elbow dysplasia This condition occurs most often in purebred dogs, and involves multiple, developmental anomalies of the cubital joint.

In contrast, disorders that occurred equally among purebred and mixed - breed dogs appeared to represent ancient gene mutations that had become widely spread throughout the dog population.

There are many types of genetic eye conditions, including cataracts, retinal dysplasia and retinal degeneration which occur with a higher incidence in purebred dogs.

Because the chances are slim that a male purebred dog found another purebred dog, of a different breed, who happened to be female, who happened to be in heat (which occurs only twice a year for three weeks), AND whose heat period was within the limited fertile window (about a week).

Hemophilia is more commonly seen in purebred dogs, and occurs more often in the males.

As for the miracle of birth, well, there's another rite of passage occurring to 20 million dogs a year in this country, 25 % of them purebred.

The loss of genetic diversity in purebred dogs can be attributed to two major population bottleneck events: the first occurring during domestication; and the second arising from breed formation where the repeated use of popular sires, line breeding, breeding for specific phenotypic traits, and promotion of the breed barrier rule, contributed to overall loss in genetic variation [15 - 19].

It is important for dog owners to understand that there are no health issues that occur only in the Rottweiler, rather most of these conditions occur in almost all other types of large breed purebred and mixed breed dogs.