Sentences with phrase «pedigree breeds»

In addition, a number of «newer» pedigree breeds are derived from mating between one or more «older» breeds, and in these situations perpetuation of inherited problems that were seen in older breeds is likely within the newer breeds.

It is widely believed that pedigree dogs are very inbred, due to closed registries and breeding practices, and that this has had a detrimental effect on the health and welfare of many pedigree breeds.

It is doubtful that a mating of two pedigree breeds will have been health tested to those breed's Code of Ethics, so you do not know what issues the breeding pair might be passing on to their offspring.

Some other breeds definitely have it worse, and to some extent all pedigree breeds come with their own raft of genetic complications.

This applies only to pedigree breeds; non-pedigrees do not have standards of points.

Increasingly, over the last few centuries, many pedigree breeds have been generated based on selection for particular physical and / or behavioral characteristics, which have been fixed and maintained by inbreeding within closed familial lines.

When two acclaimed pedigree breeds are crossed, we often get this charming mixed breed that tends to attain their personality and devilishly good looks of both its parents.

Breed Register: For pedigree breeds that are currently recognised by the KC (there are 218 of these) and where both parents are of the same breed and both are KC registered.

Yet most pedigree breeds of dog have at least one inherited disease that breeding stock need to be tested for, before they are mated.

You may have heard that mongrels are far healthier than pedigree dogs, and that pedigree breeds are all doomed.

Anyone interested in dogs will have heard that some people are concerned about the health of our pedigree breeds.

Some pedigree breeds are much more inbred than others and so, in theory, would be at greater risk of having inherited diseases present.

Inbreeding, such as is used to fix traits within pedigree breeds, will inevitably increase the risk on inherited defects coming to light.

In general, pedigree breeds use a much smaller gene pool for breeding than domestic cats and therefore have a higher risk of developing inherited disorders.

«Modern breeding practices are affecting the behavior and mental abilities of pedigree breeds as well as their physical features,» said Kenth Svartberg, an ethologist from Stockholm University and author of the research report.

However, there is no doubt that in some pedigree breeds, there are problems that any potential dog owner should be aware.

He noticed that all the dogs on show were imported pedigree breeds and he didn't found any single Indian native dog breed.

That's a gamble, and sometimes they do much better than expectation and better than pedigree breeds dogs.

The pedigree breeds we have today are our legacy from the breeders of the past when dogs were bred to perform different jobs.

It is now over 10 years since the Kennel Club carried out its «Health Survey of Pedigree Breeds», the results being published at the beginning of 2004, and it was felt that there was a need to carry out an «updating survey» in order to monitor / determine the current health status.

«NuMex Primavera» is an open - pollinated cultivar that was developed using a pedigree breeding method that included several generations of hybridizations, selfing, and repeated single plant selection (Bosland et al., 1998).

They were derived by pedigree breeding from a seed source from India and were released in 1991.

Do you think pedigree breeding is causing more problems as time goes by?

The breed standard represents our biblical guideline book when it comes to pedigree breeding and showing.

Click on «Pedigree Breed Health Results then select «Bedlington Terrier» from the «Results of the Survey» list of breeds.

After first defending the practices of its members, Britain's Kennel Club has announced that every pedigree breed in the United Kingdom will be reviewed to make sure that pressures to produce perfect show dogs don't contribute to widespread genetic diseases.

If a terrier appeals to you, you should be able to find a pedigree breed that is in reasonable shape, provided you do your research.

Each individual pedigree breed belongs to just one of these groups.

It highlights the Pedigree Breed Health Survey and promises breed specific reports in March 2016.

Pedigree Breed Profiles and more.

Multiple reasons may have caused this phenomenon, but one of them is the suitability of this pedigree breed to apartment life.

You don't have to be a dog show judge or own a pedigree breed to get to know dog feet.

For example, I assumed that Pedigree breeders would be top - notch, and then I watched an eye - opening documentary about the problems with pedigree breeding and the Kennel Club in the UK.

A 2011 study at the University of Georgia found that cancer kills 37 % of dogs whereas the 2004 Pedigree Breed Health Survey found that only 27 % of dogs died from cancer.

But as the dog is now recognized as a pedigree breed in a number of countries, including the USA, line breeding to adhere to a «standard» appearance may jeopardize their health.

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If you go looking for a crossed pedigree breed, such as a poodle and a Labrador for example, then you will have to consider the health issues of both breeds.

Just about every pedigree breed has health issues identified with them, but a large number of dogs within the breed will not have those health issues.

The word «Pedigree» means a dog whose parents and lineage are all of the same pedigree breed, i.e. a Cavalier produced purely from generations of cavaliers on both the mother's (Dam) and father's (sire) side without contamination from other breeds.

We have been working on establishing our 100 % Traceable Original Pedigree breeding program for the last two years.

These findings are consistent with registration data from The Kennel Club that highlights the French Bulldog currently as the most rapidly rising pedigree breed in the UK, surpassing other popular small brachycephalic breeds such as the Pug.

The French Bulldog has demonstrated recent rapid rises in Kennel Club registrations and is now (2017) the second most commonly registered pedigree breed in the UK.

Not exact matches

«The appointment of Carlisle, a GM - bred executive with a strong pedigree of global expertise, product planning acumen and history of building relationships with dealers speaks to the company's desire for a more back - to - basics, comfortable approach,» she added.

Wow, Richard, congratulations — you are a pure - bred, 100 percent, pedigree Anti-Semite.

Whereas Reflected Glory is a Kentucky - bred, Ruken has California written all over his pedigree.

Back in the old days, when the Whitneys and the Guggenheims and the Vanderbilts ruled the game, they looked beyond mere pedigree in breeding horses and actively sought to produce the soundest as well as the fastest horse, mating stallions to marcs with the view toward canceling out each other's physical defects.

It still concerned the courtesy due farmers, the schooling of horses and the training and breeding of hounds (the membership was cheered this year by the information that American - bred hounds with five - generation pedigrees are now admissible to the English studbook).

This small breed dog food from Pedigree is meant for dogs just like your dachshund.

This large breed dog food from Pedigree is available in 17 -, 30, and 36.4 - pound bags.

Using genetic analyses of more than 50 horse breeds, along with the pedigrees of three stallions that founded English Thoroughbreds, researchers traced the Y chromosomes of modern horses back hundreds of years.