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Zitat von Dharkwolf
In particular do any of you actively try to maintain diversity amongst your dogs or is this something no one tends to think about?
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I think CzWs are very special breed in this case. I spoke with owners of dogs other breeds. Many of them use very high inbreed. Many of them use still the same male because "the puppies are so nice". They do not care for any "genetics"....
CzW are different. Or better said their breeders are different. Just look on the litters - most breeders do not repeat the same matings. Why? Because if the puppies from the first litter were nice it means they will be used for breeding in the future. And if the puppies are of low quality or have health problems it make no sence to repeat such mating.
It is also rare breed so the breeders know each other, they know problems (even if they don't speak about it openly
) and the "value" of individual dogs. So they can choose dogs much better than breeders of other breeds where it is much easier to hide any (health, exterier or character) problems.
Because there are still relative less CzW the breeders pay more attention to keep the genetic diversity because for all these years it was one of the most important things and the breeders still care for it.... Even if sometimes they do it unconscious...
