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Originally Posted by Hanka
Hi Lupis, you wrote this:
I don´t care if it is "shepard" or no. Everything we can repair and corect by "breeding work". Yes, maybe it is work for 5 or 10 years....Why not. But we will have large genopool. We (or our breed) need not beautiful wolfdogs what you can see on italian shows (like you wrote) , but only from 1-2 bloodlines.
And about wolf characteristics: if you mean shynnes too, no thanks.
Wolfdog was created as working breed.
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I love the way you put this! It's all so very true. Decreasing already small gene pools is what's ruined a lot of purebred dogs. It's similar to the Victorian show era, when people didn't know what we know now about genetic diversity. People were so concerned with the "perfect" dog (i.e. the look of the dog) that they destroyed the gene pools, the functionality of the dogs, and health problems shortly followed. I'd say the majority of the most unhealthy breeds that exist are the ones that have a history of show popularity. We owe it to this wonderful, new breed not to make the same mistakes of the past!