Look at this pedigree----Ares von Aris - Page 1

Why would you inbreed so heavily?  Surely there is nothing but problems to be had from something so crazy! 

Let me be fair and say perhaps they did not understand how to post all of the dogs in the pedigree and it was a mistake.

I'm not one to bash...just trying to find out why someone would inbreed so heavily.  Full Sisters bred to Full Brothers from the looks of this.

I hope that this pedigree was a mistake and hopefully the owners of this dog will correct the pedigree soon, if not then I feel terribly sorry for the litter :(

Brit,

I feel the same.  I know some byb do breed exactly like this though and, we wonder where all of the health and temperament issues are coming from.  geesh...

I always find it so interesting how different fanciers of different breeds, have such different opinions of line and inbreeding.

Some fanciers of different breeds, become breeders of certain families, and get so involved in the breeding of their family and the better success that they experience with a family bred effort, that they lose the ability in some measure to properly evaluate their animals. They also have the positive experience of any dog in the family still producing the average of the line. These filial principles apply whether breeding great dogs that produce downgrades of themselves, or poor dogs who produce dogs far superior to themselves. The knowledge of the true principles of being able to produce some pretty good dogs from a line wherein some good traits exist at the foundation, in essence; handicaps many family breeders from elevating the average of his line.

Some breeders will use linebreeding extensively, and upgrade the line to its genetic potential with stringent selection. This involves excluding the majority of dogs from the line as brood candidates. These breeders will also make an occasional well planned outcross, but only with the purpose in mind of upgrading the core bloodline.

The real problem with breeding a family successfully is that it takes more than a lifetime to do it. As the great breeder Dr. Leon F. Whitney said "man's life is too short to make a great impact on any breed". With that in mind, the best breeders will leave a successor, and pass the torch with the understanding of how to continue perpetuating the family.