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If your cat or dog is having a litter, is it ok to keep most or a considerable part of the puppies if you have the conditions, or is there risk of inbreeding in the future?

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I tried to search the internet for that and for people who raise pets in farms, ranchs, etc, could never find a good answer about how it goes if you keep your pet's entire group of children together with the parent(s) and don't give them away. submitted by /u/StrongAndPowerful [link] [comments]

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The Parable of the Goat Mites

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And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces. No wait, they were, but they had experienced so much genetic drift and selective pressure that they now constituted a unique breed in their own right. And so, a breed association formed to preserve these goats. (No

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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But you can take solace in the results at the end of the breeding year, when loafing around the intertidal are a shiny new cohort of finely plumage grey youngsters, all ready to carry on Western Gull line into the future. Western Gull chick. In New Zealand at least public opinion is generally behind 1080.