I am quite the amateur in genetics and breeding, but does environment play a major role in genetics. For example, if 2 dogs have great pedegrees and they both have been socialized properly and have had correct training all of their life. Take those 2 dogs and breed them. Let's say that the litter was of great working dog caliber. Then you take the same stud dog with a sister of the previous bitch, who has not been properly socialized and has had poor training. Will this effect the progency. Really what I am trying to say is that even though you have proper genetics can environment play that big of a role in the outcome in a litter.
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I think so, but if I had to give an opinion right out I think I would say genetics 70%, environment 30%. I feel this way because of twin research, but that's with humans. Since dogs have much smaller IQs the genetic factor could be higher.
I think the female is much more important than the male. Even though the female can't achieve on average physically in the performance like the male she's still the most important factor in the breeding. I'd be very interested to see how many athletes in today's sports had mothers who were more athletic. The male matters, but not to the same degree. There are many athletes whose sons achieve but we don't get to see the other side of it often. That's too bad. JMO, I could be wrong. I have read books, and heard some serious authority on that opinion though.
While I can see your train of thought, why would you want to breed the unsocialized, poorly trained bitch? Yes, it could be just bad training, but what if it was more than that? I have a friend that wants to breed a male that she claims is the result of poor training... I just don't see the point when there are other well bred, well trained dogs out there.... Through the training we are able to see the good traits as well as the bad. With the poorly trained bitch it is going to take a good eye to see past the ghosts left behind from whatever happened previosly...
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Anyway, environment cannot change genetics. What is there is there. Environment can mess with the progeny. This is the old nature vs nurture debate.
Anyway, look at Dr. Battaglia's Super Puppy course. Bio-Sensor method. This is all environment and has been proven to strengthen dogs immunes systems and the like.
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