Breeder Spotlight: Kansa Dobermans
Breeder spotlights are designed to be inspiring interviews of long time breeders for young up and coming or aspirational breeders...
Preliminary Breed Summary: Irish Wolfhounds!
It’s been a while since we received a new advanced analysis of a breed. Irish Wolfhounds, however, along with several...
More linebreeding! A Giant Schnauzer test breeding
Linebreeding is not always inbreeding, as we have long said! Watch the video below to learn more about our breed...
Standard Schnauzers are now enrolled at UC Davis for genetic diversity testing.
Genetic diversity – this is a term that often can be confusing and frankly a bit intimidating to breeders. For...
Breeder Spotlight: Sonrisas Havanese
Breeder spotlights are designed to be inspiring for young up and coming or aspirational breeders. Stewarding and preserving breeds can...
COI is useless?
Yes, COI is useless. There I said it. Or COI is at least limited in scope. This bears saying again....
On genetic testing: does the pet genetic testing industry need rules and regulations?
There has been increasing concern about pet diagnostic testing in the last year or two. Why would there need to...
Happy Three Years!
Wow! It seems not long ago BetterBred quietly opened to the public in June of 2016, after months and months...
Breeder Pain points: rehoming a retired dog
The following blog post is about one of the hardest aspects of being a long time breeder. Many find, at...
A drop in a bucket: why a complete outcross’ genetics can be lost within one generation
A common conversation I have with breeders is when they tell me there was a Miniature Poodle a couple generations...