| I agree with psaudoaugustine.
Knowingly breeding a dog with cancer is unethical in my opinion.
The Golden from the movie "Air Bud" died shortly after the movie (after having an amputation for osteosarcoma) and his owner(s) collected him and reproduced him MANY times.
Diet and genetics do play a roll; however I'm not so quick to dismiss the genetic links. We all know that Science has been able to tell us humans if we have the "gene" for breast cancer...and others.
Wouldn't we all like to blame diet for the early demise and illnesses of our dogs. Unfortunately; I believe genentics plays a major roll.
The truly "valuable" dogs (and lines) don't die of cancer; they die of old age. |