MikemkPK t1_irzf9np wrote on October 12, 2022 at 4:30 AM

Reply to comment by JayGold in TIL that all Shiba Inu alive today are descended from one single Shiba, "Ishi," born in 1930. by Tsujimoto74

No. If you breed together A & B to get C, you can just do that a few dozen or hundreds of times to get the gene population without resorting to incest. If the new desired breed doesn't happen every time, simply don't allow that line to reproduce again.

asshair t1_isjwt5i wrote on October 16, 2022 at 3:30 PM

Except that's not how it actually works. Pure breeds end up with very specific "desirable" traits that can only be brought out repeated in breeding. So father to daughter breeding, then father to granddaughter, then father to great grand daughter etc.