assateague wrote:Rick wrote:assateague wrote:Until worldwide eugenics occurs, that's not really a valid comparison.
Whatever gets you through the day...
I'm just saying, to the best of my knowledge, humans haven't been specifically bred for certain traits.
Tell me again why you have retrievers for retrieving instead of mutts.
Pits have been bred specifically for a wide variety of traits - and also bred without regard for meaningful traits. Same with gun dogs, and I choose to hedge my bets by looking for individuals with their breeds that were bred to suit me, rather than putting any faith, whatsoever, in meaningless breed generalizations.
If I were ignorant enough to fall for breed generalizations, I certainly wouldn't have had the Chessies that have served me and mine so well. Might have gotten a Lab that chewed up the grandkids, instead.