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Animal welfare in modern dog breeding

Astrid Indrebø email

from The role of the veterinarian in animal welfare. Animal welfare: too much or too little? The 21st Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation (NKVet)
Værløse, Denmark. 24–25 September 2007

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2008, 50(Suppl 1):S6doi:10.1186/1751-0147-50-S1-S6

Total agreement..

Dorothea Penizek   (09 October 2008)  Parson and Jack Russell Terrier Club Austria email

That was one of the most sensible things I have read in a long time. Too many restrictions are totally counterproductive and total reliance on DNA testing and the subsequent removal of carriers and even affecteds from the gene pool only limits genetic diversity.

Dorothea Penizek

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