On 4 Jan 2006 02:04:45 -0800 lyn62  whittled these words:   
   > I have unfortunatly found myself in a very stressful situation.  I have   
   > a 4 year old male dog who I bred with a friends bitch last April.  I   
   > was given the pick of the litter and chose a female to keep with the   
   > intention of breeding with her.   
      
      
      
   > I have searched on the net and could not find any information regarding   
   > interbreeding so have turned to this web site to see if anyone is able   
   > to give me further advice.   
   > I do not trust my vet, and his opinion as I feel that he is covering   
   > his own tracks.  we were unable to give her an injection as we were   
   > past the 3 day period when he realised the male was in fact fertile.   
   > Any advice that can be offered would be much appreciated as I am   
   > worried sick about this.   
      
   Exactly what kind of information are you looking for that will make a   
   difference in your decisions now?   
      
   You have a close inbreeding, not an interbreeding.  But as you don't know   
   the terminology I suspect you haven't done any reading of books on dog   
   breeding.  And that probably means you haven't done a significant amount   
   of research into the health and other qualities of the dogs in the line.   
   You didn't even provide information on the breed of dog. Which means it is   
   not possible to predict how risky this breeding is.   
      
   I suspect you won't hear a word of a suggestion that you not breed at all.   
   I suspect you won't consider getting the bitch spayed now, even though   
   that is the right thing to do. So basically there is no advice that will   
   be helpful to you about this particular situation.   
      
   There is some information that might help in the future, depending on   
   whether you are open minded enough to make use of it.   
      
   Inbreeding brings out more recessive genes.  Recessive genes are not   
   always bad.  In most breeds the very qualities of the breed depends on the   
   expression of those rescessives.  BUT you just won't know and can't know   
   what will happen in this case because you don't have the information on   
   the dogs bred, nor on the health of the dogs behind them.   
      
   ANY breeding without understanding genetics is a bad thing to do. But if   
   you MUST breed then at least pick up a couple of books and learn more   
   about the consequences of what you are doing.  I have some good books   
   listed here http://www.dogplay.com/Breeding/   
      
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