Quote Originally Posted by barbie.dragon View Post
Augh american german shepherds get quite deformed... the Czech and german lines hold great form since its breed standard to be able to work and they need to get sch titles.
in central europe german shepherds have such a large population, its easy to breed healthy ones.

one key method should be adopted for BPs as well, and many breeders already do it, that is the paperwork. at least for the breeding animals, even if many breeders are involved, you know the parents, grandparents, which breeders produced the grandparents, sometimes it goes back many generations. And for breeding you pick two individuals that are healthy, where the siblings are also healthy, you compare the paperwork, there should be no matches when tracking it back a few generations. and now you have a breeding pair and can sell at top price, to the government, to hunters, to facilities that train assist-dogs for blind and disabled people, because you have the paperwork to prove that you are producing excellence. Its the same with race horses, they have family trees going back many generations.

today with a computer and a digital camera and a card that follows each snake in the collection, its easy to do excellent documentation. Many breeders already do an excellent job and lots of information can be requested. Im in europe, and if i would be a professional breeder (i am not) and if i would decide to start breeding clowns, an easy way to produce large numbers without inbreeding would be: i buy 3 female clowns, potentially with other morphs going on, in europe, try to get as much paperwork as possible. Then i buy a male clown with excellent paperwork going back at least 2 generations from the USA. Its really easy for big breeders.