Re: [pyrnet] Pyrs without Dwarf producing ancestors

[SovreignPyrs@aol.com]

Hi Barb
Thank you for your input.  I know several times the GDC was submiited as an 
example to submit health information to.  And I think its a wonderful 
organization.

But the Beagle people were not comfortable with a cut and dried printout or 
report.
By having a geneticist that followed the database for many years, she was 
able to give much more input after getting to know the many breeders she 
worked with.  
If she felt someone got around a problem with a certain breeding, or she had 
identified a dog NOT carrying a particular gene, she was invaluable in that 
knowledge.

In many cases she was instrumental in finding a stud dog for me who was not 
carrying dwarfism, but could also tell me his percentages of producing 
epilepsy, not to mention the true top producer being identified by his sire 
index.  Not that I could not have found some of teh information, I could 
have, but it might have taken ages to search it all out.   For example who is 
the top producer really? The dog who is bred to 20 bitches in a calendar 
year, and 10 finish.  Or the dog who sires two litters and all of them 
finish?   

I think many people in Beagles wanted the comfort zone of someone genuinely 
interested in dogs particularly, and not just a computer spitting out 
information on a printout, with no relative background.  

Sharon Hodgdon