Originally Posted by
limiman12
Pointing labs do not claim to be a seperate breed, just a strain within the breed, no different then yellows and chocolates. Just a varience within the breed. As far as being able to reproduce it, my dog just sired a litter with nine in it. I will take some quail over at seven weeks and let you know what happpens, and I hope to keep in contact with the owners. I know the last litter, the only people (6 out of the 10) pups that I was able to keep in contact with, all pointed..... I will be disappointed if they don't all point.
With that type of success, wouldn't you want a separate registry? Similar to the Llewellin setter and English setter? Even in the setter world there's different breeds, Gordon, Red/Irish (don't know how that stands), White, English. Also, there's the bench type and field type, etc.
By having a separate registry, breeders can control the what aspects they want to see in the breed. If one of the six owners decides to breed a dog to a non-pointing lab, then gives up a pup from that litter, it has a very good chance it won't point or half heartly points. Then that owner tries to breed back into the pointing lab gene pool...