On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:50:29 -0500, "wolfpuppy"
wrote:


"sighthounds & siberians" wrote in message
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On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 15:54:04 -0500, "wolfpuppy"
wrote:


Not sure what part of my post you didn't understand. Hip dysphasia is a
result of inbreeding, that is, breeding dogs that are too closely related.
If you want to get into more detail than that, you will have to ask a
geneticist. If you are trying to pin me down by making me say that all
inbred pups will develop this condition, there is no way I could do that.
But if you want to avoid this condition, then I would say that by not
breeding dogs too closely related would be the way to go. To be
absolutely
sure, you would want to have the parents hips x-rayed, since x-rays in too
young a dog wouldn't show anything.

Please. It's dysplasia. You might have more credibility if you got
the name of the condition correct. And again, breeding dogs that are
closely related doesn't magically produce hip dysplasia.

Again, this points out the reason one should go to a reputable breeder.

Reputable has nothing to do with it. Responsible does.

Mustang Sally

Come on, Sally, quit trying to win an argument with semantics. Reputable,
responsible...same thing. As far as misspelling dysplasia, that was the
fault of my spell checker, and if you check one of my earlier posts, you
will see that it was fully punished for that error.

No. Look them up in a dictionary. In this context, reputable means
having a good reputation; responsible means doing the right thing.
They're not synonymous.

(type dysplasia and hit spell checker--see what you get...hmmmm??)

I don't need a spell-checker, thanks.

Mustang Sally