Midnight Legend Boston Terriers & Bordeaux

I have a passion for genetics and the secrets to life's measurable mysteries.  Other interesting items also included.  Here are a few very informative links I'd love to share...

Favorite Links

 

Book: How To Afford Veterinary Care

Without Mortgaging The Kids

 

 

 

http://oldcountryvet.com

 

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Before buying your new little companion,

please read this site.

"New!"

Wisdom: Our Top Five

** Ask to see a "REAL TIME" or updated photo of pup or dog in question to prove that the individual actually has dog in his/her possession

This is a photo of the dog, with your name, date, and time on a sign held next to the dog (not imbedded in the photo by computer generation) .

** Ask to see the Dam and the Sire of the litter, regardless of whether both are on site. Good working partnerships will allow for the sharing of individual photos

** Note: A dog is only CH pedigree if the champions are listed in the first (3) generations Sire, Dam or either of the Grandparents or Great-Grandparents

** A dog is only CH Sired/Dam if the father or mother hold the title.

www.puppyscammers.com

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http://www.bostonterrierhub.com

 

All about Boston Terriers! Boston Terrier owner shares info on standards, history, selection, care, common health problems, rescue, training, photo gallery where visitors can add their pet's photos, puzzles, ecards, free newsletter and more!
 

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"New!" "AKC Canine Health Foundation"

AKC  is doing an Outstanding job in the facilitation of canine health research.

Check out * Research, by breed, by disease, by grant

Current research includes coat color, causative agents of deafness, blindness, autoimmune diseases, etc..

 

http://www.akcchf.org

 

 

 

Purebred Dog Breeds Into The Twenty-First Century:
Achieving Genetic Health For Our Dogs
Dr. Jeffrey Bragg

 

http://www.netpets.com/dogs/reference/genetics/bragg.html

 

 

 

"New!" "Standard Coat Color Genetics in Dogs"

by JP Yousha

Note: Although this contains information expressly meant for Great Danes,

the information can be used for many mantles (saddle expressive dogs) throughout the canine world.

This is why we don't breed splash-marked bostons.

 

http://www.chromadane.com/standardcoat.htm

 

 

 

"New!" "Canine Coat Color, Inheritance & Appearance"

by Bonnie Dalzell

Note: Although this contains information expressly meant for Borzois,

the author does an exemplary job of explaining the correlation between of 1/2 to FULL white heads and neural crest development.

**It is widely known that all mammals develop bilaterally.

This means that early in development the neural tube forms.

From here, the tissue developement works around each side developing the rib cage and fusing in the front.

In addition, the fusion completes from bottom to top (ending on top of the head - i. e. soft spots of newborns)

This line becomes apparent in pregnant females as a line down the tummy.

If one was to hypothesize that the development was incomplete,

Like celft palate and cleft lip, the color genes failed to complete their genetic instructions (lack of color where it should be)

and it may be safe to assume that the right side of the brain which control hearing is not attached to the left ear and/or vice versa.

This is why we don't breed 1/2/ or Full white heads. 

 

http://www.borzois.com/coat.color/coat.color.html

 

 

 

"New!" "K Locus, Dominant Black & Brindle"

This webpage is part of a series on Dog Coat Color Genetics and was last updated on October 28, 2007

by Sheila Schmutz, Ph.D. schmutz@sask.usask.ca

 

http://homepage.usask.ca/~schmutz/brindle.html

 

 

 

 

Genetics of Coat Color in Dogs :

Sheila M. Schmutz, Ph. D, Professor

http://homepage.usask.ca/~schmutz/dogcolors.html

 

 

Honor Among Beasts

By Michael D. Lemonick

 

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1079521,00.html

 

 

THE GENETIC TIDE, WILL IT LEAVE US HIGH AND DRY?

By J. Jeffrey Bragg (1995)

 

http://www.seppalas.org/genetictide.htm

 

 

CONSIDERATIONS ON POPULATION GENETICS IN DOG BREEDING

By Hellmuth Wachtel

 

http://www.seppalas.org/wachtel_considerations.htm

 

 

CANINE INHERITED DISORDERS DATABASE

 

http://www.upei.ca/~cidd/intro.htm

 

 

HERITABILITY

By John Pollack Ph.D (Cornell University)

 

http://www.workingdogs.com/doc0189.htm

 

 

THE NATURE OF GENETIC DISEASE

By John B. Armstrong

 

http://www.workingdogs.com/doc0134.htm

 

 

DEVELOPING A HEALTHY BREEDING PROGRAM

By Jerold M. Bell (Tufts University)

 

http://www.spinone.com/akc_chf99/23HealthyBreeding.htm

 

 

THE CANINE DIVERSITY PROJECT

 

http://www.canine-genetics.com/

 

 

CONTROL OF GENETIC DISEASE

By George Padgette DVM

 

http://www.workingdogs.com/doc0031.htm

 

 

 

Sue Bowling: Animal Genetics

 

http://bowlingsite.mcf.com/Genetics/Genetics.html

 

 

 

Breeding Culture Programs And

Problematic Infections For Dams, Sires, And Puppies

 

http://www.candog.com/cavaliers/Health/BREEDING%20CULTURE.htm

 

 

Evangelizing Canine Genetic Diversity

Hellmuth Wachtel

 

http://www.workingdogs.com/doc0192.htm

 

 

 

 

Diversity & The Purebred Dog

(The Poodle & Chocolate Cake)

John Armstrong

 

http://www.canine-genetics.com/cake.htm