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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
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.
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Oh for gods sake, it makes no difference if you have 60 million or 600 million if they all originate from a few hundred breeding pairs that conformed to some arbitrary breed standard 60 or 70 years ago then all and any offspring will have some of or all of the problems that the original dogs had and those problems will be amplified over generations.
one fifth of all retrievers have hip or elbow dysplasia, an entirely genetic condition due wholly to breeding within a small gene pool, the numbers of dogs within that tiny gene pool are utterly irrelevant. 15 million retrievers have a common genetic disorder and the only way to stop that from increasing to 20 or 30 or 60 million is to breed in other types of dogs wholly unrelated, you know, muts.