Articles about American Pit Bull Terrier
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There is no easy answer to get rid of defects in dogs. Remember, most dogs carry 14 disease/defective traits that may come up in your breeding program at some point. Most defects are recessive in nature meaning that both parents are carrying the gene and will produce the problem. Some, however, are not recessive in nature and only one parent needs to be carrying the gene in order to produce it. Lastly, some defects are a combination of environmental issues and nutritional issues alone where neither of the parents are responsible for the defect. Unfortunately, a lot of diseases have not been studied in dogs to be sure what exactly the genetic inheritance of the particular problem is. Here are some examples. Hip Dysplasia is one of them. Some experts say its genetic while others say it's due to early injury and still others theorize that it's a combination of nutrition and environmental factors. The general consensus on Patella Luxation and Legge Perthes has been assumed that it is recessive in nature and that in order to produce a pup with the problem both parents must be carrying it. Demodectic Mange is a great one under controversy. Since all dogs have the mites on them from birth it can be rather hard to determine if the pup breaks out because of stressful conditions or if there immune system has not fully matured yet or if its strictly genetic. Under or Over shot jaws can be caused by genetics or by breeding two dogs with dissimilar head shapes. Meaning one dog has a long muzzle and the other parent has a short muzzle. The upper and lower jaws grow at different rates so that if a puppy has a good bite when very young and suddenly goes over or under there is a chance that the bite will self-correct once the jaws catch up with each other. That is not always the case though. The list goes on and on with defects but two healthy dogs that have been bred several times withoutoccurrence of problems can suddenly produce a defect that shows up. If you breed a male and a female and come up with defects then you can not always be sure thatboth of the parents are carriers when they do not express the defect themselves because of the lack of information on genetic inheritance modes.....to continue reading this article please click on here...
