Re: [pyrnet] Pyrs without Dwarf producing ancestors

[SovreignPyrs@aol.com]

Hello Everyone                                                                
                                     I guess everyone can sense my 
frustration over this.  Why take a decade or more to get past this problem, 
when if everyone just pitched in to help, we could move on.       As I said.  
I am willing to help.  I care nothing about background, pedigree or even if 
it appears from mars.                                                         
                                    I know that the people who have these 
pups are shocked and upset.  I know that they have a right to privacy.  But 
what I'm saying is that there should be a way to submit pedigrees to 
researchers to find out probabilities in existing breeding stock for 
everyone.  For instance, on my little Beagle bitch Dolly I submited a 
pedigree on her (unfortunately after one trned up-remember this was 12 yrs 
later, had no reason to think they would turn up again) to ou club 
geneticist.  She came back to me and told me that Dolly had a 20% probability 
of producing a dwarf based on the known carriers in her pedigree.  What I did 
not know is that I bred her directly to a dog sireing a number of them. So 
even though the nearest carrier on her is in 4th generation, I managed to 
pull this forward.   All I'm saying is that there must be a bette way to do 
an intelligent breeding than the way we're going about things now.       
Sharon Hodgdon