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| Topic | Y'know we have bred dogs every which way... |
| SKARDAVNELNATE 09/06/17 11:22:10 PM #14: | St_Kevin posted... yeah well I don't think wolves have access to vets a warm home and food on demand. Also not to be eaten by your own pack Along with those life extending benefits comes the need to breed them into something that won't eat you if you're late with one of those meals. That's the point of selective breeding, to bring out desired traits or suppress undesired traits. You can't really do that with lifespan. By the time you realize a certain dog took longer to die it's too late to breed it. Even if you extensively bred it while it was alive you don't know which descendants it passed that trait to. It would take extensive record keeping over generations to see which dogs lived the longest and breed only their descendants. Which means you might already have 4 generations of another line before you realize their ancestor came up 2 years short for that litter. --- No locked doors, no windows barred. No more things to make my brain seem SKARD. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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