You by far have the best videos on RU-vid you understand the science and come at it directly with a logical sense not an opinion or emotions like most dog people and pure breed enthusiasts. Keep them coming prof !!
I've always told myself my next son I will get from you. My son passed away October 23,2020 at 8:15am at the age of 8 years old. I fought that cancer but in the end I lost.. I had him since he was 9weeks old, took him from a life I knew it would of been bad for him. The pain I feel everyday I know will stay with me.. But I believe if I did get a another son at least I would know all the health issues before hand.. I truly wished they lived as long as we did
An informative video as all your videos are. Your years of knowledge, wisdom and willingness to work toward your goal and vision is a true testament to your American Sentinel program. I’m fairly new to your channel and haven’t seen all your videos yet so you may have answered what I’m about to ask. I tried to watch and listen to this video carefully so I could correctly formulate this question. You mentioned outcrossing as a means of gene flow when you’re looking to improve or strengthen traits for a said performance or task of the dog. You may never need to do so because of the large gene pool of dogs you have access to. But by chance in the future if that need ever arose is there a dog that exist today outside your breeds background you would consider?
Great video as usual. Id like to ask, Where does the concept of type fall into this thought process? My understanding was when you are outcrossing into other breeds you are working with or developing a type when through consistency brings about a breed.
I agree with you. My classification goes as follows: Species, Subspecies(breed, cultivar, etc), population, individual. Species I define as a group of oeganisms capable of producing viable offspring. By this definition, dogs, wolves, coyotes, and jackals would all be the same species. The differences between coyotes, jackals, and wolves is compable to the differences between the various dog breeds. So I see all well defined breeds as equally divergent and represented as wolves etc. And thus, are subspecies.
K, I kinda get it. They probably put bandog on papers cause some "breeds" people are weary of, say pity's get a bad name in aus. I'd say my boy is like a pity cross mastiff, although we have often thought he sometimes looks like boxer in some aspects also. He wont be chasing any pigs around here though.
I’ll speak for L.R. and say no... I don’t even know him. Those dogs don’t add anything positive towards his goal. For what? Merle color and undershot bottoms with baby teeth and questionable lineage...
@@sentinelmalinois5931 : No problem, they're becoming the talk of the town! I was hoping he could give his opinion, because I was considering buying one!
@@rheddtx Working Dogs is 100% right. The Alapaha is nothing more than nonsense IMO. Additionally, anyone that would create a breed and name it "Blue Blood" and then breed for color kind of has their head on backwards. They are not even close to being top performers.
