Inbreeding and line breeding

The primary reason behind the conscious involvement of man in dog breeding is to ensure that we can breed dogs to meet our wishes otherwise dogs will naturally continue to mate and reproduce randomly with every breed mating with any available dog either of the same breed or not and this is process that produces mutts.

There are different types of dog breeding methods: inbreeding, cross breeding and line breeding. No dog breeding info will be complete without this knowledge.

Inbreeding involves the breeding of closely related dogs that are within two generations, like mating father with daughter, mom with son, brother with sister etc. Inbreeding helps in strengthening certain traits within the breed by mating dogs that are closely related in order to make the gene pool more homozygous.

Inbreeding is also employed in situation when breeders want to preserve the breed from extinction or start out a new purebred. If the dogs used in inbreeding are not carefully selected then you may end up with a terrible bloodline since inbreeding primarily enforces the traits either good or bad within that breed.

Line breeding is a variation of inbreeding which involves the mating of relatives that are not as close as inbreeding.
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