PEDIGREE's of WELL know GSD's that carry the blue and liver gene - Page 5

LOL.. sue.      

Yes, even I can be funny.......................once in a ..........................blue moon!!!!!!!!

sueincc? Let's

 Brittany!

well black blue white liver htey are all german shepherds,who knowes what went in to making a german shepherd what different coloures and breeds went into it. today's shepherd hardly loos like the shepherd of days gone by.some people decided the shepherd should look this way and that way and other people decided shepherd should have a roach back and straight back and then some people decided white is not a shepherd and blue is no good so if these people decided to play God and reject these dogs then what stops other people to play God and say white shepherd or blue are also a different breed og german shepherd.have a nice one.thanx.

lol, lol

Asking someone to understand basic Mendelian genetics is probably too much to ask. Garbage in means garbage out. Data means little if there is no substantiation of it. Anyone can compile lists. We have repeatedly seen people come here purporting to start databases of all sorts of conditions etc, filled with data submitted by people who lack scientific backgrounds, and such compilations are useless because all too often the data incorporated is invalid. If data is no good, the resulting compilations will serve no purpose. I know many people, for instance, that don't even know what a sable is. Yet ask them to submit data about "their sable" dog and they will, when their dog is not even a sable....It is ludicrous. The original poster has a problem. As Blitzen has so many times said: "You can't fix stupid".

Rejecting colors against the standard is not playing God, it is a part of normal breeding.  Why do you think there are hornless cows (polled) and dairy and beef cattle?  Race horses?  Bloodhounds?  Irish Setters who are red?  How many white Irish Setters do you see?

Mendelian genetics is easy once you get into it.  I remember doing Punnett Squares about 31-32 years ago in high school biology. 

Our instructor Mr. Nations had such fun with us: 

Tell me the likely offspring of a bald blue eyed tall woman hemophiliac with horns when married to a short, polled (hornless) man who is brown eyed, carrying a recessive blue eyed gene, not hemophiliac, who is also bald?  Then he'd put:  (Never mind that PEOPLE DON"T HAVE HORNS, just do it.  For extra credit, draw a representation of the ugliest offspring.)  He was about five feet tall, and I think he had a short man complex, but he was a great teacher because I can still do the square, 31 years later.

Veronica

"How many white Irish Setters do you see?"

Couldn't help myself!  Wish we'd see more of these.  A good ol' Irish red and white field line, NOT a bench bred.  Beauty! 

Now I dare you to Google up with a bald, short, blue eyed, hemophiliac male human with horns...LOL!

Hey Aura, that is interesting.  I looked them up after seeing your picture.  That picture is on this site:  www.dogbreedinfo.com/irishredwhitesetter.htm  It is the Irish Red and White Setter.

Seems like they are now a seperate breed from the Irish (red) Setter, which was what I was thinking of but I didn't specify, did I? :-)  Origionally, the so called Irish setter (who was derived from many different kinds of setters) tended to be red and white.  Learn something every day

Veronica