Poll of the Day > Y'know we have bred dogs every which way...

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yet their average lifespan of a pupper is still 10-15 years

That's some bull ****
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Well we don't really improve them when we breed them...

we should
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Yes, yes we should. Stop creating sick creatures so they can be considered "pure-bred"

SkynyrdRocker posted...

Stop creating sick creatures so they can be considered "pure-bred"

one of the worst is Boxers. there is a very common defect in Boxers where as they age, they will contract a muscular disease that makes them slowly get paralyzed in their legs. it's horrible and I think boxers have like a 50% chance at least of having it. Breeders are supposed to do a dna test before breeding to see if the parents have it, and then not breed those dogs. so that the disease goes extinct. but they don't cause cause breeders want that puppy money, and they get away with it, cause the disease pops up years after the puppy is sold. my family has had 2 boxers and they both got it. the first is dead. 2nd one is slowing down and probably will be dead by this time next year. don't get pure bred Boxers. it's too risky.

The raw genetic material isn't there for that.
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I mean smaller dogs consistently live longer than larger dogs so we kind already have.
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Cats r bettur

Zikten posted...

SkynyrdRocker posted...

Stop creating sick creatures so they can be considered "pure-bred"

one of the worst is Boxers. there is a very common defect in Boxers where as they age, they will contract a muscular disease that makes them slowly get paralyzed in their legs. it's horrible and I think boxers have like a 50% chance at least of having it. Breeders are supposed to do a dna test before breeding to see if the parents have it, and then not breed those dogs. so that the disease goes extinct. but they don't cause cause breeders want that puppy money, and they get away with it, cause the disease pops up years after the puppy is sold. my family has had 2 boxers and they both got it. the first is dead. 2nd one is slowing down and probably will be dead by this time next year. don't get pure bred Boxers. it's too risky.

My family used to have a pure bred boxer. He died at like 7 or 8 years old from cancer

gravy posted...

Cats r bettur

Git, ya gosh dang varmint. Ain't no cat lovers gon be in this here topic spreading yer lies.
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St_Kevin posted...

yet their average lifespan of a pupper is still 10-15 years

That's a significant increase. Wolves only live 5-6 years in the wild.
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gravy posted...

Cats r bettur

Cats also spread Toxoplasma gondii. :P
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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

St_Kevin posted...

yet their average lifespan of a pupper is still 10-15 years

That's a significant increase. Wolves only live 5-6 years in the wild.

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
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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.
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It's time for robodogs! Just remember to replace their brains every couple hundred years or so when they start to go bad.
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It would take the entire lifespan of the dog to see if it was good for breeding for long life.

At which point.. will it even be able to breed anymore?

Yellow posted...

It would take the entire lifespan of the dog to see if it was good for breeding for long life.

At which point.. will it even be able to breed anymore?

Well no, cause if you wait it's entire lifespan it would be dead.
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SmokeMassTree posted...

Well no, cause if you wait it's entire lifespan it would be dead.

Or right before it beats the record, when its sexual organs don't work well.

So basically there would be no way to speed that up, meaning it would take absolutely forever to breed an immortal dog.