| Yep Judy, you are exactly right! ADRK is very into "natural" breeding, most dogs over there are not even brucellosis tested. But one of the main reasons is to maintain the integrity of the breed and if a bitch won't stand or a dog won't mount.....well, do we really need more of them??
Also, breedings are very controlled, with only a certain number allowed per year, and also the tattoos of the dogs are checked to be sure that Dog A is truly being bred to Bitch B. With AI, they lose that ability. Yes, DNA testing would help......but can it differentiate between littermates. I.e. say Dog A is well titled and a major show dog, but a breeding idiot and won't mount....or worse yet, shoots blanks......so they bring in his litterbrother (untitled, unknown) and do the breeding (lie about who the stud really was).......could DNA differentiate the littermates? Maybe, maybe not. Depends how genotypically similar they are.
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