2-3 Linebreeding - Page 1

Would like some advise on a 2-3 linebreeding with VA8 Quantum vom Fiemereck as the dog on both sides of the pedigree.

Depends on the dogs used.  Post the mating check so we can analyze the result.

Close linebreedings always come with the risk of doubling recessives and bringing them to the surface.  A friend asked advice about a 2-2 and I recommended against it.  He bought the pup anyway.  At 10 months the pup was put down with an unidentified failure to thrive, but he was a sad mess.

The idea of breeding purebred dogs comes with a risk of this.  Why linebreed and then linebreed tightly, vastly increasing the risks twice over?

I have known three gsd's to die at the age of 5 in the last decade.  I wonder if any linebreeding at all is really ethical.

i do not believe it depends on the dogs at all.  JMO....anything from3-3 or less is nothing more than inbreeding. A fine line between sanity and crazy, just the same applies here.

Here is the mating check,


http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/para.utkoma?fadir=601470&modir=1320987