(February 20, 2015 at 12:31 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I keep hearing about medical problems with purebred dogs, because it's more or less inbreeding, and some things we like to breed into dogs are actually bad for them. Though I didn't know they only use specific dog breeds for seeing eye and sniffer dogs. I guess that's why any time they show a sniffer dog on TV, it's always the same breed.
Not really. They generally use German Shepherd Dogs for sniffer dogs, but Belgian Malinois, Labs, Pointers, Bloodhounds (Hounds in general), even Weimaraners are used for sniffer dogs. And any breed can be used for seeing eye dogs. Golden Retrievers are used a lot because of their friendly nature around people.
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