Inbreeding

[pittlover420]

I have a female pit that had puppies a year ago. We kept one of her males and this past time she was in heat, they did their business and she is now pregnant.
How will this effect the puppies?? The parents both have excelent temperments and are very well behaved.

[MaxKellyAST]

I think to answer this question you must first find the answer to another.

How good are the parents?

Pedigree research and health/temperment testing are some ways to to begin to find the answer. Ultimately you may only really know when the puppies are born and old enough to evaluate them. Its too bad that could not have been considered before hand.

[True_Pits]

I totally agree with ya Max. You have to know the background of the parents to make an educated guess as to what the offspring will be. Inbreeding can do some major damage if you don't know what you are doing. It should have been considered before, like Spay/Neuter your pets.

[charmedagain]

The real problem with inbreeding is the risk of cleft palatte,hairlip and other genetics problems...

Providing both dogs are in excellent health and have been tested to show this then there maybe no problems but this is still a maybe all will be ok but not always the case...

Knowing that she is pregnant to her son did you not consider getting her spayed and have the litter terminated i know this sounds evil but in the long ruin the risk to the pups and the dam are not worth it..

A friend of mine had a bullmastiff and she was caught by her son and she had a litter of 14puppies and only one was healthy the rest had problems and died shortly after birth.

Both her and her son where in excellent health...

Just keep a close eye on her and if needed have a vet look her over to make sure she is ok...

I have my fingers crossed that all is well and she has strong healthy pups..

Mike

[Sara]

Inbreeding intensifies everything about the dogs that have been inbred and every part of the line of the dogs that have been inbred.... If you know nothing about the line of each of the parents then the breeding should not have occured and should have been terminated for the health of the Bitch and the puppies...

Intensifies the good AND the bad and not on a 50/50 scale... THIS is the reason that inbreeding and even line breeding are most often only done by folks who have a VERY good understanding of genetics and the bloodlines of the dogs involved.... If one parent has a TIGHT sissor and the other has a SLIGHT Underbite...from a sire or dam with an underbite...the likelihood that 50% or more of the puppies born WILL have an underbite is HIGH.... Same with temperment... you have a brave and strong bitch for the mom but say her sire or grandsire's side had one or two nervous dogs....say your bitch came out of a litter with a couple nervous dogs from that gene being passed down... likely you'll end up with 50% or more of the puppies being full blown fear biters.... Say you have a dog that stamps his traits on every bitch his bred too...say that dog is the father of the mom...the likelihood that the stamped and stamping trait will be passed on to 50% or more of the pups is high.... I'm sure by now you see my point.... Inbreeding should only be done with superb examples of each breed, should generally only be done on a granddaughter to grandfather type mating and should be done only by people with a serious working knowledge of phenotypes and genotypes of the lines that went into producing said dogs to be inbred....

Good luck and I wish you would have taken precautions to keep this from happening... Spay/Neuter or simple shut doors a crate routine for a month would have sufficed....

[MaxKellyAST]

Well, Not much can be added to that Sara. I think that is the general consensus you will get from the post.