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Posted by DOGOMAN
on 6/6/2012, 12:07 pm, in reply to "Re: CC???"
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You guys know the science behind breeding more than I do so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that something that could be a targeted selection in a certain line? A dog shows little distraction and is great with all of the other things, breed him and look for pups that have the same characteristic, breed them to another dog which shows the same characteristics, until you have pretty much every puppy being born having the lack of distraction while retaining the other good characteristics?
I see no problem in consumer using a dogo for police work, human tracking, or whatever the owner wants / manages to obtain from his own dog.
Breeding selectively for those traits, however, is a different matter and it does not make much sense to me. The Dogo is a hunting dog and breeding for hunting ability is already hard enough. Other breeds are more natural to man work and as such easier to train and more adept at providing a substantial % of successful specimens. Targeting man work as a breeding objective (in terms of trait fixation) is something I wouldn't like in the dogo. It would be like breeding pure-blood racing horses selectively to work as plow horses. Doesn't seem to make sense; you just purchase a plow horse.
The fact that a dogo gets distracted by scents is essentially something good; selectively breeding the dogos that don't show this trait would be a step towards denaturalizing the breed, IMO.
Marcelo
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