Dog Breeding. What is an inbred?

Question

Ok, so I just registered my bulldog puppy with the AKC and they sent me a three generation pedigree. Follow me on this, I'm a little confused myself. My dog's mother's dad (that would be my dog's granddad) is the same dog that my dog's father's granddad is (my dog's great granddad, on the other side of the family). Does that make him inbred. I mean surely the AKC wouldn't register him if he was, right?

Answer 1

There is an old saying among breeders........

When the cross works it is Line Breeding, when it is a disaster it is In-breeding .

It is very common in purebred animals for people to "double up" or "line breed".

The reason for this is to try to create an animal that is genetically strong for its good traits. Obviously it can go the other way.

Since you are probably not going to breed your dog (based on your question you are not), it is not anything that will affect your decisions with your dog. (In other words doing a complete outcross on a breeding)

Enjoy your dog.

Oh and AKC would register a llama if both its parents had akc papers.

Answer 2

I have been a professional dog breeder several times. I am stopping for the last time, due to my health and therefore my ability to take care of my dogs, after breeding Dachshunds for over ten years. Agreed. The ONLY way you will make money breeding dogs is when you greedily spent the income and don't properly take care of your dogs. Inbreeding, and even worse, in-line breeding, comes from unscrupulous breeders who either have no idea what they are doing or don't have enough sense to keep closely related dogs away from each other when females are in heat. A high percentage of show dog breeders are some of the most bigoted snot-wads around. Where do they think their breed came from? Someone(s) worked long and hard to perfect an animal, both in temperament and in physical quality. What makes them think that they are now the chosen few? And that someone should pay a premium price for their culls? Get a life! Choosing A Breeder: Do your homework. Read and research until you know what to look for in a good dog (breed). Get references on previous dogs sold. If possible, go see some of those dogs. Get Vet references. If a breeder has over six dogs and is not devoting most of his time to it, go somewhere else. Find a breeder who treats all of his animals as personal pets. A breeders kennels should be 30-100 feet long (depending on breed size) and the dog should not be confined to it at all times. Ask to see the pedigree on the pup you are looking at. A prospective pup should be almost house broken (most commonly crate trained). You should be able to hold the dog on his back without him fighting you. Animal shelters and rescue organizations: Many - in spite all of their do-good hype - are doing many animals a disservice. The odds of your getting a psychologically messed up dog are high. A good organization screens for this. Ask them! There are some things from which an abused dog never recovers. If you can get a good dog from them, then please, by all means do it and give a good dog a good home. Their contract should allow you to return an unsuitable dog. Otherwise find someone who will, be it a rescuer or a responsible breeder. Hope this gives you some insight.

Answer 3

Yes, he is inbred, but most dogs are to some extent. The AKC doesn't restrict inbreeding because if it is a purebred, they register it! The only time this will lead to problems is if it is continued for several generations.
Inbreeding will not occur too closely with a responsible breeder, and it doesn't sound like that is too close to cause problems, provided that there wasn't a lot of inbreeding going on in the previous generations.
I would talk to the breeder and ask to see a 10 generation pedigree on the parents of your dog. Any responsible breeder will have this info, and if they don't, I would be wary and prepare for health problems because who knows how many time the family has been inbred or if the breeder bred healthy animals or not!

Answer 4

Provided the other dogs in the background were 'outcrosses' (having no relatives in common for many generations), this is called 'line breeding'. If the grandparent in question was a wonderful dog, the breeder wanted to pass this on to future generations. Doing line breeding is something many, many breeders do. Most of the time with great success.

As far as AKC goes, they will register the pups from a mating between a littermate brother/sister (this is obviously inbreeding!). AKC is a registration organization, plain and simple. It is up to the breeders and to the purchasers of the pups to be honest and informed.

Answer 5

An animal is inbred when there is mating of related individuals.

Do you know every animal is the result of some level of inbreeding as all members of a species are related, if only very distantly.

However, inbreeding is usually defined as matings between fairly closely related individuals.

The most extreme inbreeding being that between a father and daughter, or mother and son, followed closely by full sibs mating, then half-sibs, grandparent-grandchild, and first cousins, or uncle-niece and aunt-nephew.

In more distant cases there may be only one cat in common on a five generation pedigree. Hence your case is not inbred one. Thatswhy AKC accepted the registration of this PUP.

Answer 6

Your dog's maternal grandfather, is also your dog's paternal grandfather.. No this isn't inbreeding. This is line breeding.. Inbreeding is Mom bred to son, dad bred to daughter.. Brother to sister..
AKC does NOT care if it is brother sister or anything else... As long as the dogs are Purebred and registered with the AKC, they will register any combination.

Answer 7

Breading back to a grandparent is "line breeding" but not "in breeding". This is a very common thing to do.
It is only when that grandparent is a known carrier of a recessive defect that you would avoid having it on both sides.
Example would you would never want "Honcho" on both sides of a Lab Pedigree because of Muscular Myopia

Answer 8

Your pup is line bred not inbred. Like some have already said AKC really doesn't care about things like that, they only care about it being pure bred.

Your pup is fine and probably has a fine pedigree!

Have fun with your new pup!

Answer 9

Semi-generational inbreeding is common in dogs (actually all domestics). They DO allow it, but that's why they require certain specific genetic conditions to be absent (hip displaysia, eye defects, etc).

Just keep in mind if you ever decide to breed him, that he is most likely recessive+dominant for many of the diseases, meaning if he mates with a female of the same combination, you will have a higher percentage of puppies who are recessive+recessive, and therefore will be born with more defects.

Answer 10

Yes, that would be inbred. And I am pretty certain that it still would be registered. As inbreeding has its ups and downs. It does keep all the great things of this bloodline in, yet doesn't let another bloodline add its pros and cons to the bloodline. But the negative about inbreeding is that the gene pool gets narrowed down, and you're more likely to have defective pups.