Posted by SandhillsABchick
on July 24, 2009, 6:02 pm, in reply to "Thight line/inbred dogs maturing"
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Mark, I don't think that the tight inbreeding has anything to do with how and when a dog's defense turns on. Now, of course, if the defense drive is in the genes breeding tight on those genes will lock those traits into the dog. And again, inbreeding/linebreeding of dogs that are slow maturing may make the offspring that way as well NOT because of the practice of linebred but because you have tigthened those genes. What is in the genes themselves is key. I dont think you can say that just because the dog is linebred that it will be slow to mature but you do have a much better idea of how the dog will mature based on how the dogs were that it was bred down off of. I dont think it matters if the dog is tight bred or scattered. What matters is how the dog was programmed through his genes and the early experiences that he has had.
You said the key though and thats the dog maturing. Age plays a role as does how hard we push or don't push the dog. Better to let him mature at his own pace and see what happens.
Just my opinons.
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