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Uncle Arko is my daddy and my grand daddy.

Good Lord!!

No, you got that wrong...he's my MOTHER'S daddy, and my FATHER'S daddy, and my great-grand daddy.



And some people have no shame, or sense!

I noticed an inbreeding of 2,3:2 on this dog Arko of Dutch Hill.This would amount 62.5% blood from the said dog.Was there a specific reason for doing this or was it just to save on paying the stud fee of another dog?What trait was so damn good in Arko that one would want to fix it in such a manner.Inbreeding is indeed a great way of fixing good traits of a particular animal but it can also fix bad ones and if you go by Murphy's law more often than not it fixes the bad ones.Inbreeding is like a loaded gun.It can cause havoc in not so experienced hands.Most obviously there may be loss of size and reduced longivity.Are you aware that Queen Cleopatra of Egypt (who was said to be drop dead gorgeous) came from 7 generations of brother-sister marriages?Done intelligently inbreeding can be a great short cut to breeding exquisit animals.Done blindly it can contribute to other people's problems.In some breeds it has great results.In GSDs  anything closer than 3:3 has to be approached with very great caution that too provided the dog being inbred to is known to be hardly ever throwing faults and the two animals being bred are typical of the common ancestor and not possessing the faults of that ancestor.

You know, I try to refrain from getting snarky over people's ads and pedigrees...but holy crap that's way too much line breeding on a NICE dog, let alone that one. Ick.



Out of curiosity, what you would you think of a 2:4? On an outstanding dog, of course.