Does inbreeding Affect dogs?

Question

I have a doberman that needs a girl and his mom just had another liter but its not the same dad its his brother, does it still affect them if they would breed?

Answer 1

yes. That's why a lot of purebreds have health problems because breeders keep using the same gene pool. My friend had a German Shepard that died when it was 2 because of inbreeding. My sister's dog suffers from hip dysplacia and it's only 3.

ps. I am giving you a star for using affect instead of effect. SO many people use it incorrectly.

Answer 2

There is a special recipe for the genetics that uses in line & inbreeding to produce certain traits. This recipe is breed specific cause not every breed needs the same thing.

Don't play with the genetics that you know nothing about. When breeding you should have a grid of the positive & negative traits of both sire & dame. You should know who was who in the ancesters of the dog.

Each breed needs to have traits bred into them or bred out of them to produce the specific charactoristic that the breeder is going for. If you know your dog has a fault(s) you should not breed to another dog with the same faults.

You need to know what you are doing & not second guess nature. Breeding dogs has so many requirements to produce good quality pups.

From the sound of what you are doing you should not be breeding dogs. You would not be asking this question if you knew what you were doing. Inbreed mongrels are a sore sight to see. Demented minds, temperament issues, physical faults, out the ying yang, just a really poor breeding program.

Unless you fully understand the Standards of the Breed & the blood lines going back generations, have your Pedigree Papers & your registry papers (ie. AKC), license to breed one has no business messing the the genetics.

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Answer 3

I don't believe I have seen this much myth and misinformation in one thread before.
Does inbreeding affect dogs?? Yes of course it does. The breeding you are suggesting is breeding a half brother to a half sister if I am reading your question correctly. If you have a PhD in genetics, and two perfect Dobies that have zero faults then by all means the breeding would be worth the risk. (but even with seemingly perfect dogs you should expect to have to cull one out of four pups) Without the knowledge and the perfect animals your chances of getting pups that are even worth their weight in their own waste are zilch.
I would point out that there is an entire breed that owes it's existence to the mating of littermates (Llewellin Setters)
You have to understand that this sort of breedings were done when the culling of puppy's was a common occurrence. Breeders of that time even culled puppy's if they were the wrong color. So unless you have a desire to go back to those methods of breeding, what you are suggesting is way to close to even be considered.
But the breeding would NOT produce some sort of three headed monsters, but it would double up on a lot of recessive genes that you probably have no idea of their existence.

Answer 4

The problem with inbreeding is you don't want to pass along undesireable characteristics and close blood ties tend to duplicate pairs of undesireable genes. Of course there is no way to know ahead of time (short of genetic testing which is expensive) what undesireable traits you 'might' breed in from such a pairing so most conscientious pet owners try to keep the gene pool from being narrowed by NOT breeding close kin. Chetahs, for example, are very closely linked to all other chetahs on the planet so if a disease were to crop up to which ONE chetah was susceptible, ALL chetahs would be susceptible. Therefore, if it was an organisim that proved fatal to chetahs, we could lose a whole species to one little mutation!

Best case scenario is find a more distant genetic match to increase the variability of the genetic code the pups will inherit. On the other hand, you might get by with it for one generation or even successive generations before any flaws reveal themselves. Otherwise you are effectively playing Russian Roulette with all succeeding offspring.

Answer 5

The Effects of Inbreeding are that Recessive Traits, like Most Genetic Defects are Far more Likely to Emerge, with Little chance of a Strong Trait being Developed by Natural Selection.
Most Animals will be Reluctant to Mate with a Close Relative due to Instinct. Miscarriages and Stillbirths are Common
A Common example of this in Animal Breeding is trying for Albinos (being a recessive trait), which should be Incredibly Rare in Nature, as it is a Defect in Coloration, and thus Skin Protection, Mate Attraction, and Camouflage. However it IS a Sellable trait in Pets, as people think it's Cute, and Albinos are Common in Pet Stores. Both sides are Careless as Albinos are Weaker than Normal.

Hint: Get a Female, or Meet someone interested in Breeding Theirs.

Answer 6

particular, inbreeding ends up in loss of vigor and much less resistance to ailment. A brother/sister mating additionally will intensify all the undesirable traits of the mothers and fathers. in case you want to reproduce, you're able to heavily evaluate getting an outdoors mate for each. If no longer for the excuses above, them because of the fact a lot of human beings won't want to purchase or take the doggies from you. Inbreeding = undesirable stigma.

Answer 7

I guess the operative word here is "can" it? Well yes it can, but so can out breeding....breeding that close with a breed which is not noted for their stability is dangerous, but not unheard of in Europe...there are too many factors that go into this type of breeding for any lay person to understand or try....avoid it ....many folks think that it is some form of incest...applying the human judgement to it...however all dogs in the wild pack are related and what you ask happens regularly there...however nature has a cruel way of getting it right if it fails.....I can't imagine anyone wanting pups if they know what you did...

btw much of what you are reading here is the result of poor breed tracking because Anerica allows anyone to breed anything with no one checking for breed defects...there is no paper trail of them....only the dogs you have in front of you...recessive traits are interesting....in your breed the Dobe...many breeders are looking for them....their goal is to improve color thru breeding recessively....however my point is it is best left to experts

Answer 8

Yes. Inbreeding affects all living creatures. The reason is this:
Every creature carries recessive genes for some sort of abnormality. A recessive gene doesn't show up unless it is paired up with another recessive gene. When you breed animals of the same genetic line together, all of those recessive genes are combining, making it more likely for it to show up in the next generation. And then that generation will have stronger recessive genes to pass off in the next generation, and so on and so forth. This begins to show in genetic abnormalities that could even be life-threatening. There's a serious problem with this in bloodhounds, as well as a number of other breeds.

Answer 9

I had a dog that had a litter by its brother and within 5 days of giving birth all but one of the puppies died (there were 7 total). The other lived for about a year but you could tell there was something wrong with it. It didn't look like the other dogs, it didnt grow very much and it just acted slow. It just died out of nowhere about a year after birth. So dont do it!!! It's just too sad.

Answer 10

Yes. I saw a show on PBS and it had these dogs that were so inbred, that when they were scared they would just freeze. You could move them anyway you wanted to. It was funny seeing an epileptic dog run down the hall of the research hall and then just collapse. It is bad because if you do it too much you have a higher risk of getting a very bad disease vs. have more genes "mix" it up.