Re: Any Dorn dog owners out there?
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Looks like a fat yellow lab..
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Re: Any Dorn dog owners out there?
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They look like a fat yellow lab though A friend of mine had a fat black lab. We called it a flabador......lol
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Re: Any Dorn dog owners out there?
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border collies are high energy,they can and do run all day long and they are super smart,many times they do things by instinct alone without being taught. Thats why so many herding ,working dogs were bred from them. Mine figured out on their own what find the trap meant, this one get back on ATV when I get ready to set traps
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Re: Any Dorn dog owners out there?
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They look like a fat yellow lab though That's all hair, she's got a good 3" on shoulders back, she weighs about 40 lbs Even got fur between toes, she's actually pretty skinny, eats every other day most the time
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Re: Any Dorn dog owners out there?
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They look like a fat yellow lab though A friend of mine had a fat black lab. We called it a flabador......lol Haha!
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Re: Any Dorn dog owners out there?
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A lot of hunting dogs like curs and fiests and working dogs like English shepherds and border collies are pretty variable in appearance. They are bred for the ability to do a task, not looks. In many ways, breed registries like the AKC have hurt the function of dog breeds by mostly focusing on appearance rather than ability.
Keith But also by having so many breeds included in the breed it's a hard deal and shot in the dark when it comes to breeding and getting certain traits.
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Re: Any Dorn dog owners out there?
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Fat lab? Come on guys! She's slim as can be! Has a aredale shaped head
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Re: Any Dorn dog owners out there?
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A lot of hunting dogs like curs and fiests and working dogs like English shepherds and border collies are pretty variable in appearance. They are bred for the ability to do a task, not looks. In many ways, breed registries like the AKC have hurt the function of dog breeds by mostly focusing on appearance rather than ability.
Keith But also by having so many breeds included in the breed it's a hard deal and shot in the dark when it comes to breeding and getting certain traits. When breeding for performance, typically and ideally only dogs that can successfully complete the function they are bred for are bred. Breeding is both an art and a science. Form follows function to a fair extent. If you breed for form only, function almost always suffers. I think the main purpose of most breed registries for dogs is first to make money for the people who own and work for the registry. Second to allow the dog breeders to charge more for the dogs they sell. Many breed registries have no purpose past those two purposes. Ideally the registries main purpose would be to continue to improve the breed, by only allowing dogs that met the physical standard and that were proven to be able to perform the purpose they were created for to breed. Keith
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Re: Any Dorn dog owners out there?
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But if you know what is in the breeding when your breeding for certain traits you can match up similar traits alot easier.
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Re: Any Dorn dog owners out there?
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A lot of hunting dogs like curs and fiests and working dogs like English shepherds and border collies are pretty variable in appearance. They are bred for the ability to do a task, not looks. In many ways, breed registries like the AKC have hurt the function of dog breeds by mostly focusing on appearance rather than ability.
Keith But also by having so many breeds included in the breed it's a hard deal and shot in the dark when it comes to breeding and getting certain traits. At first maybe but through hard culling and breeding best to best then line breeding on that you fix the traits you want. Most of these lines are the product of a lifetimes work. Also why so many lines don't survive the death of the original breeder.
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Re: Any Dorn dog owners out there?
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But if you know what is in the breeding when your breeding for certain traits you can match up similar traits alot easier. But without doing skills tests on all dogs being bred, you do not know if they carry or have lost that critical trait. Unfortunately most breeders of hunting and working dogs, take a male and female of a breed they have access to and breed them together, just for profit, with no concern on whether they are actually good enough at their job to be bred. To make it even harder, most very good dog won't throw as good as they are and some not so good dogs produce better than they are. Good breeders have to have a keen eye, excellent memory, creative mind, tons of determination and some luck. Keith
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