Historical Elkhound Material

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Heritage, origins, old lines, and archival comparisons.

Historical Elkhound Material

Select a pup on the grandparents and related genetics.

Grandparents of your pup have influence beyond what is normally discussed. The parents of your pup have a very high influence but they are primarily a combination of all four sets of grandparents. Great grandparents still influence instinct behaviors and traits even though it is less pronounced in the pup. Instinctive behavior goes back...

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Purebred or Full Blood What’s the Difference

In it’s simplest form, the answer is as follows: Purebred means to breed a selected and controlled group of genetics confined to a group. No breeding outside the confined group. Limited Genetics only to what is in the group. Full Blood means to use all known and previously utilized genetics from the broadest possible genetic...

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Nonsense Articles About Bears and Dogs

Wow, there is so much nonsense written about bears and dogs that it blows my mind. If I had my way, I would remove 99% of the crap articles out there on this subject. Total idiots talking about bears and dogs is all I see. Not one of them is qualified in any way to …...

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