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Originally Posted by Mikael
Maybe the parents of Hamlet can be Bonitated again and get a new better result  ??? |
The father can be used in countries where bonitation is not required and in fact he already has.
What I understood was that Wilk is (was?
) unique in this sense that:
1. his parents' matching cannot be repeated for obvious and justified reasons, which Paula and Saschia mentioned
2. high inbreed carries risk of reinforcing faulty genes, but Wilk seemed to be exceptionally strong and healthy - he survived in very tough conditions as the only pup from the 'unwanted' litter.
3. I haven't seen the dog live, but all who did were amazed how beautiful and wolfish he was. Shaluka kept posting for several months about his exceptional beauty and sweet nature and probably had a
good reason to drive him to Italy and arrange with Alessio attempts to get him a pedigree, though at the beginning she had claimed Wilk would only be her "beloved pet". Had those attempts been successful she'd have probably used him as rep anyway. Why otherwise should she have undertaken all the efforts and apparently, costs?
I've read somewhere that under special "controlled" conditions highly inbred
typical and healthy males (never females!) may be used in breeding with genetically far related females to reinforce certain features of appearence or character. If they turn to give healthy and nice offspring, they may be later used to open new breeding lines.
Not being a specialist in genetics, I'm not sure how true or valid this info is, but I suspect that's what Paula and Michael had in mind when stating their interest in Wilk...
PS The story has two layers: genetic and moral. I'm not going to comment about the latter except expressing my surprise that Edit speaks so lightly of 'disappearance' of ANY dog, including Wilk.