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by GSDGenetics on 01 May 2010 - 17:05
It seems common sense is totally absent in the cases described above regarding registration revocations. It's especially ignorant when Malcolm Willis, the geneticist whose book is one of the very few places where Canto & his hemophiliac descendants are even openly MENTIONED, is IN the UK.
It seems the common sense thing to do would be to UNDERSTAND the genetics of a problem BEFORE making any decisions about it. Sons of a hemophiliac male are normal because like in humans, the gene is on the X chromosome. The only way you could get a hemophiliac female is if you bred an affected male to a carrier female, and obviously people who work with German show lines have avoided doing that even though the lines going back to Canto are heavily linebred upon.
As for a case of a dog that bit someone at a show, common sense would indicate that the first thing to do would be to examine all circumstances surrounding the bite. For the most part, animals put up with far more without reacting or retaliating, than humans would ever tolerate. I've seen situations at shows that a human wouldn't even tolerate if that human was in the dog's position. The age of the dog that bit someone, the place it happened, the activities going on around the dog at the time, the age & behavior of the person the dog had bitten, what that person was doing right before the bite happened, other dogs nearby, there are many factors which can cause a dog to snap or bite even though that dog may never have attempted such a thing before. Adolescent dogs unused to the show scene are usually nervous & easily startled. Was the bite an aggression bite or a fear bite, etc.
The KC seems to have about as much common sense as the USA Congress does when Congress votes to pass a 2700 plus page bill of laws they haven't even read yet!
It seems the common sense thing to do would be to UNDERSTAND the genetics of a problem BEFORE making any decisions about it. Sons of a hemophiliac male are normal because like in humans, the gene is on the X chromosome. The only way you could get a hemophiliac female is if you bred an affected male to a carrier female, and obviously people who work with German show lines have avoided doing that even though the lines going back to Canto are heavily linebred upon.
As for a case of a dog that bit someone at a show, common sense would indicate that the first thing to do would be to examine all circumstances surrounding the bite. For the most part, animals put up with far more without reacting or retaliating, than humans would ever tolerate. I've seen situations at shows that a human wouldn't even tolerate if that human was in the dog's position. The age of the dog that bit someone, the place it happened, the activities going on around the dog at the time, the age & behavior of the person the dog had bitten, what that person was doing right before the bite happened, other dogs nearby, there are many factors which can cause a dog to snap or bite even though that dog may never have attempted such a thing before. Adolescent dogs unused to the show scene are usually nervous & easily startled. Was the bite an aggression bite or a fear bite, etc.
The KC seems to have about as much common sense as the USA Congress does when Congress votes to pass a 2700 plus page bill of laws they haven't even read yet!
by Videx on 01 May 2010 - 19:05
"The only way you could get a hemophiliac female is if you bred an affected male to a carrier female,"
I think you should reconsider the above statement.
I think you should reconsider the above statement.
by bazza on 02 May 2010 - 14:05
Member, excellent analysis!!
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