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Old 03-13-2013, 02:06 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jocoyn View Post
So my question - if one PARENT of a dog who has normal testicles has produced cryptorchid offspring, should the offspring of the dog (who has normal testicles) be pulled from the gene pool?
IMO, no.
If we eliminate from breeding every dog with a first degree relative who exhibits or produced a problem, even when the individual dog we're looking at is clear, we'd be out of GSDs to breed at all.
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