[Lhwlove]

Username: WajaGirl
Showname: Kaboodle's On a Comet's Tail
Name: Comet
Gender: Buck
Genetics:astast/Ccch/kk/Dd/bb/sisi/Mm/TT/RR/Hh
Tell me the dos and don'ts of merles and merle breedings: Homologous merles (aka 'double merles', and sometimes incorrectly called 'lethal whites') are dogs with two copies of the merle gene from breeding merles with merles. They have a higher risk of being deaf and blind, even sometimes being born without eyes (a condition called Anophthalmia). One other possible defect is Microphthalmia, where one or both eyes are smaller than normal. This can lead to blindness.

A study done by Texas A&M University found that out of 22 double merles, 8 were completely deaf and two were deaf in one ear. Out of 48 single merles, only one was deaf in one ear, none were completely deaf. Unfortunately merle-to-merle breedings are only forbidden in three breeds, so they continue to go on, creating hundreds of puppies with severe defects.

Fun Fact:
Did you know that the majority of health issues in dogs are actually in dogs having both merle and piebald genes?

[henley]

Username: Ismene
Showname: Stargazer's Rigil Kentaurus, one of the 'closest' stars to our solar system, apart from the sun!
Name: Ken
Gender: Buck
Genetics:astast/Ccch/kk/Dd/bb/sisi/Mm/TT/RR/Hh
Tell me the dos and donts of merles and merle breedings: Breeding a Merle to another merle can result in blindness, deafness, and even anophthalmia; born without any eyes at all. These pups rarely make it far from birth, and even when they do, it is not much of a life at all. They are also always born with a weaker immunse system than regular dogs. (I did a report on this last year for my biology class;3)

[HopelessOutsider]

Username: TheOakTree
Showname: Cassweck's All eyes on Me
Name: Merlin XD
Gender: Buck
Genetics:astast/Ccch/kk/Dd/bb/sisi/Mm/TT/RR/Hh
Tell me the dos and dont's of merles and merle breedings:
You never ever breed merles to merles, this could make the pups born
with blindness, deafness, or even no eyes. So do breed to something else xD

[mars]

Username: WajaGirl
Showname: Kaboodle's On a Comet's Tail
Name: Comet
Gender: Buck
Genetics:astast/Ccch/kk/Dd/bb/sisi/Mm/TT/RR/Hh
Tell me the dos and don'ts of merles and merle breedings: Homologous merles (aka 'double merles', and sometimes incorrectly called 'lethal whites') are dogs with two copies of the merle gene from breeding merles with merles. They have a higher risk of being deaf and blind, even sometimes being born without eyes (a condition called Anophthalmia). One other possible defect is Microphthalmia, where one or both eyes are smaller than normal. This can lead to blindness.

A study done by Texas A&M University found that out of 22 double merles, 8 were completely deaf and two were deaf in one ear. Out of 48 single merles, only one was deaf in one ear, none were completely deaf. Unfortunately merle-to-merle breedings are only forbidden in three breeds, so they continue to go on, creating hundreds of puppies with severe defects.

Fun Fact:
Did you know that the majority of health issues in dogs are actually in dogs having both merle and piebald genes?

[Lhwlove]

Username: WajaGirl
Showname: Kaboodle's On a Comet's Tail
Name: Comet
Gender: Buck
Genetics:astast/Ccch/kk/Dd/bb/sisi/Mm/TT/RR/Hh
Tell me the dos and don'ts of merles and merle breedings: Homologous merles (aka 'double merles', and sometimes incorrectly called 'lethal whites') are dogs with two copies of the merle gene from breeding merles with merles. They have a higher risk of being deaf and blind, even sometimes being born without eyes (a condition called Anophthalmia). One other possible defect is Microphthalmia, where one or both eyes are smaller than normal. This can lead to blindness.

A study done by Texas A&M University found that out of 22 double merles, 8 were completely deaf and two were deaf in one ear. Out of 48 single merles, only one was deaf in one ear, none were completely deaf. Unfortunately merle-to-merle breedings are only forbidden in three breeds, so they continue to go on, creating hundreds of puppies with severe defects.

Fun Fact:
Did you know that the majority of health issues in dogs are actually in dogs having both merle and piebald genes?

congrats

[HopelessOutsider]

Congrats :3
Hey theres one fun fact that no one knows...I've never
won a nannuck before, I have one gifted to me, then the rest are custom.

[mars]

Oh wow, thank you so much! This is my second nannuck, so I'm super happy about getting him!

I actually started a kennel, but never got to post the link. So this right here is the page ouo
I'll also PM Lhwlove about adding it into the main list ^^

Thanks for the congrats! <3
I most likely won't try out for another for a little while, I'll breed my two in a little while and then decide what will happen after that once I get to that point ^^

[The Mean Kitty]

Omg so there is merles now?! I'll have to start stalking this species better again now... o3o