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Have you ever seen a puppy of a working dog? Pointers will point. The training they receive is what to point, not how. Retrievers will retrieve, herders will herd, trackers will track. But when someone suggests that a dog that has been specifically bred to fight and kill, oh, they were just trained that way. No, they have been specifically selected for aggression and prey drive. It is at best naive and at worst deadly to think that a working dog comes as a blank slate and will only perform actions it has been trained on.
That's not how genetics works my guy. None of those things are heritable traits. Being smart, being trainable, those are traits that puppies can inherit. Being a good tracker isn't. That's learned behavior. If you've seen puppies pointing, retrieving, herding, or tracking, it's because they learned it from some other dog, animal, or human.
This is EXACTLY how genetics works. Research the Belyaev's domestic fox program. It took about 4 generations of choosing the calmest and friendliest to make a domestic fix on par with our domestic dog breeds.
This is what dog breeding is. Breeding to get a specific dog behaviour was literally 90% of dog breeding ... before the weird cosmetic trend started.
So the owners of retrievers what, subconsciously all train them to retrieve because they knew the breed?
? You don't think animals naturally know how to do things?
That's not what I said dude
A bird can naturally know how to build a nest but a dog can't naturally know how to follow an animal?
Still not comparable to what I said.
It is comparable.
I implore you to look up videos of working dog puppies. Duck hunters don't get retrievers because they like how they look, they get them because they have been selected over generations on their inherent retrieving drive, which is a natural trait of dogs. You are objectively wrong about these traits not being inheritable. These dogs need to be trained what to retrieve, or what to point, not how to do these things. My sister's pointer would point piles of shit, she had to train it to point birds.
I'm sorry but you are completely wrong about this topic.