What is considered inbreeding in dogs?
Carolina Cremin
2025-06-14 09:55:47
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Inbreeding is specifically catagorized as mother to son, father to daughter, brother to sister. Borderline inbreeding is grandparent to grandchild and half brother to half sister. Just seeing lots of the same dogs dotted within a 5 or 6 generation pedigree is not nearly the same as seeing one of the above, very tight matings. This and this only is inbreeding. LINEBREEDING IS NOT INBREEDING. Inbreeding is thought of as bad by nearly everyone except the very experienced breeders who CAN and DO use it sucessfully. It does, of course, have its dangers in the sense that dogs will NOT be born with two heads or five tails BUT any of the health problems which are PROVEN to be directly recessively inheritable could occur with a far greater frequency in inbreeding matings as one opens oneself up to the same genes being placed together so closely.
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