With current breeding practices & the world being a smaller place :ie the shipping of & use frozen semen you have homozgous populations of dogs ....Example : ABPTs : Chinaman , Eli very inbred upon , Mastino : Tyson della grotta azzura , you have dogs here in the states that are 4x inbred on him :?: :?: Black Mouthed Curs : Wheatherfords Ben linebred heavily on..HD is becoming more previlant...in BMC HD was never really considered a problem :?: :?: & Lists go on & on ...When dogs are viewed as a commodity or a ego booster, health & mental problems, in the dogs not the owners :wink: , are par for the course... When dogs are left in their traditional setting & jobs , health & mental problems ARE less...ALOT LESS... Sometimes it is better to leave well enough alone ...