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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
All purebred dogs are, by definition, in bred, it is what makes them 'pure'.
40 years ago purebreds where only really the concern of a small number of dog show types, all the rest of us had muts that looked 'mostly' like a Lab or 'mostly' like a Shepherd, this was a healthy dog population, what we are doing now is normalising genetic abnormality and it makes no difference how much genetic testing you do, if you just turn out Beagles, no matter how you do it, you are inbreeding and eventually you will produce unhealthy traits.
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Where did you get that information? It's wrong. And luckily lots of breeders are breeding for different traits now and expanding the genetic pool within a breed of dog. There are 60 million golden retrievers in North America. It's pretty easy to not inbreed them and still get a golden retriever.