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DNA First
the Good News: Thor Infante De Gifford is the father of 'the Special one'
bred by Karen Carroll in the U.S.A.
Ask
for a DNA test for your dogs every time!
It’s the safe way to avoid all those 'mistakes' like those done
in the past by the so-called famous breeders (fake registrations etc. -
see on my other site). Thor
Infante De Gifford, like my PWDs, has that rare, ancient and original
genetic code seen in the early dogs owned by fishermen, characteristics
also found in Vasco Bensaude's (Algarbiorum) early PWDs. Vasco
Bensaude kept an accurate information on each dog born at his kennels in
Lisbon - Vasco Bensaude passed on his dogs & his archives to
Conchita Cintron - the first to have send her PWDs to the U.S.A. while
Vasco Bensaude had refused doing so years earlier... but that is again
another story. The
following data sheet is from Vasco Bensaude archives that I had the
privilege to read, thanks to my friend Conchita Cintron.
Now,
lets go back to those years during the II War when my father took me to
Vasco Bensaude's home and I was fascinated by all the dogs, specially by
that white puppy!! White
animals have always fascinated me and through the years I owned and bred
countless white animals - birds, rabbits, cats and dogs -
It’s
a long story but, in the end I succeeded in breeding white Portuguese
Water Dogs, with that rare and ancient genetic recessive gene, that
seemed lost! My
travels took me to the Algarve and Sezimbra where the first white PWDs
had been found. Research,
breeding and selection with commitment & luck helped me to get
"WHITE COATED PWDS". I
learned, in this long process, that its important to keep in mind, a) the standard, written by Vasco Bensaude's vets (see my site on the subject) b)
to know dogs genetic
background c)
to concentrate on selection d)
to avoid inbreeding, in
order to get the best result. To
all those interested in white coated PWDs here is a simplified short
description of what may be rather complex. As
we know dogs have 78 chromosomes (39 pairs) and each chromosome is
composed of genetic material - genes, genes that are referred by
specialists with letter (capitals) A, B, C, D, E, G, M, S, T and W -
each gene in its series has other genes, mutants, called ALLELES that
are situated in gene bases, loci - (sing. Locus). For
example the WILDE color AGOUTI is located in A series (A plus alleles)
in A locus. The same is
true for B, C, D etc. According
to some, the white coat color in dogs is I)
Due to
the action of 2 alleles situated in C (full pigmentation) locus
resulting in paling or extreme paling (Robinson) & (Little).
Inherited as recessive.
White
coat can be also explained by a gene W (whithey), also inherited as
recessive. II)
White coat color in
dogs can also be due to the action of genes situated in S (self colored)
locus - extreme piebald (particolor) - inherited as dominant - tested
largely at the Jackson Laboratories. Most
pair of genes are dominant or recessive to each other. Coat
color & nose leather are polygenetic influenced by different genes
and can also be affect by sunlight (the case of winter nose in white
PWDs). IN
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