“I’ve been told by someone who said that breeders of the world's most outstanding dog bloodlines have always relied upon superior maternal lines to produce the best of the breed. It has been proven time and again that even the strongest male will never overcome a weak female.” (THIS IS JUST A QUOTE, that I’ve heard on the issue)
I’ve often times heard that people in any form of offspring emphasize on the father, but seeing this makes me think the mother’s genetic background is much more important.
I myself have heard this from other people as well, I assume this is because the female carries the offspring. Therefore it makes much more of a difference in what is produced. Is this true, or false? What does the board think of this? I’m certainly not the authority on the issue. This issue may be common knowledge to most of the board members or not. I don’t know. I would however like hearing people’s opinion on this matter.
Do you tend to look or act more like your mother? I doubt it.
DNA is wonderful stuff and you simply get half of one and half of the other, which half you get is unknown and out of our control at the present moment, but to suggest that simply carrying the babies gives the bitch more influence is a little off IMHO.
“I’ve been told by someone who said that breeders of the world's most outstanding dog bloodlines have always relied upon superior maternal lines to produce the best of the breed. It has been proven time and again that even the strongest male will never overcome a weak female.” (THIS IS JUST A QUOTE, that I’ve heard on the issue)
This quote simply states that if you mix coffee and water you are going to get weak coffee.....
DNA is a wonderful thing, however, it is the mother who rears the pups. She has a greater influence on what the pups will be than the father. Temperament wise. We all know if you take a dog with great genetics and a terrible temperament you get nothing. The mother is more of a factor than the father.
Ok, but I was referring from a sheerly genetic standpoint. The point from birth on crosses over into the beginnings of socialization and yes, the bitch is the beginning of that unless you have a situation where you lose the bitch and either bottle feed or have a surrogate, then you are back to nature v nurture.
Schnauzergirl . . . I said what I did because that's the only reason I could come with assuming if this was true. That's why I said - I ASSUME-. I only thought this because the female carries the offspring in her body, I think that would make an impact. If a woman was a drug addict I would assume it would make more of a difference. The father would make a difference as well giving the offspring an addictive gene possibly, BUT the mother is more important. The impact I think would clearly be more direct. I would think? I guess I could be wrong.
I also think nature will always out weigh nuture. If it didn't then people would be able to take American line or show GSDs and make them into anything they wanted. At least I think anyway?
By the way what's IMHO? I'm not familiar with that. Perhaps someone could fill me in???
In My Honest Opinion. I guess depending on who is posting it could also be Humble as well... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
Thanks for giving the definition on IMHO. I didn't know what that was. I guess I'm slower than some people. What can I say? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
It's even more embarrasing when you use an abbreviation that you thought meant something else. I've done that. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
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