Drab, or other clued up dog people

the 13 month dog when she was about 2 months old I think.

Neb
 

The weather has been horrific mate over the past few years, serious winds and heavy, icey rain.
 
I hope the sun shines LOL

 
We all know that the 30th october 2010, in snowdonia is not going to be sunny

Cause of death: Exhausation and extreme hypothermia.

WTF is that coming out of it's mouth?

jackson

Neb
 

The weather has been horrific mate over the past few years, serious winds and heavy, icey rain.
 
I hope the sun shines LOL

 
We all know that the 30th october 2010, in snowdonia is not going to be sunny

Cause of death: Exhausation and extreme hypothermia.

LMAO

It was a piece of ribbon from a christmas present that she was playing tug of war with.

Neb

that name was dropped some 32years ago! after we as a country stopped being so pathetic

 
Did we call them Alsatians due to the 'German' part of the real name then?.

yep, bit sad really but thankfully it was dropped and the true name lived on

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huskyboy

Neb

that name was dropped some 32years ago! after we as a country stopped being so pathetic

 
Did we call them Alsatians due to the 'German' part of the real name then?.

yep, bit sad really but thankfully it was dropped and the true name lived on

sad is an under statement!....I honestly never knew that!
 
Cheers

Don't mention the war!

Short haired GSD's have pretty long hair
Long haired GSD's look like a big ball fur lol

My parents have 7, 6 sort haired 1 long haired. The long haired one is the leader of the pack oddly, although female

jackson


It's weird drab about the long hair gene being recessive. We had the father of the 6 year old aswell and the bitch he mated with was short haired yet all her puppies were long haired.

Interesting mate, there must be more to it than just one gene then I guess

You'd expect at least half of the pups to be short haired if it was just a matter of dominant vs recessive

Xx              xx

Xx   Xx  xx  xx

Those are not kisses in case anyone else was wondering lol

please explain the recessive gene thing

The dominant gene basically over-rules the recessive gene mate

So the X's I put above are a simple example of how dominant and recessive genes work. The Xx and xx at the top represent the genes of the parents, and the X's underneath the genes of the pups

X is the dominant gene, in this case short hair

x is the recessive gene, in this case long hair

If you have any of the dominant genes then you have short hair. XX or Xx will give you short hair as X over-rules x

But you need both recessive genes to have long hair, xx

So you can see that even if one of the parents has just one dominant short hair gene, you would expect half of the pups to have short hair. In a different case where the father was double dominant then you'd expect all of the pups to have short hair, even if the mother was long haired

All this is assuming that hair length is controlled by one gene which is unlikely anyway given what Jackson said!

There will be much better and more indepth explanations online if you're interested mate, but those are the basics

Fcuk me Drab, even I understood that!....thanks very much!

Dog people eh?

I'll believe it when I see it, Wheres my tin foil hat?