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hello
Well cross breeding is that thread really about it or mankinds involvement?
well survival of the fittest- big ground for discussions...
but dogs aren't a result of survival of the fittest, they are manmade!
maybe evolved out of a symbiosis.
But dogs were bred to get certain traits, to strnegthen them. to put that behaviour to use.
Well a pointer, don't get anything to eat , if he just points. a retriever don't get a full tummy by just retrieving (of course they can learn to hunt)
well what about a pug or a cinese chrested??
hmmm survival of the fittest????? no survival because
mankind changes the invironment to the point these dogs can exist.
Scientists/ behaviourists have shown that, if you leave a dog to its own it relativly fast goes back to a medium sized form with standing ears:
Dingo, Basengie etc....
so we have our hands in it, and we breed we take the responsibility of a litter, yeah some dogs are not meant to live,(stillborn, or defected so the mom would not take to the newborn)
but we treat all of our animals, we run to the vet if they have a cold , we do surgeryes if we have, to.
shouldn't we think then of survival of the fittest, too. well he doesn't have the immunesystem- he is not fit?!?!?
No we are responsible and why not try to help a pup, just because he has some trouble, we do it with the adults, too. and eventhough the genees may be defective, and it just shows in old age, that dog still reproduced.
Cross breeding, weell i don't dsee the conection.
but this would be my two cents....
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