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'Foreign' Breeding

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Emilyoliver:
My cocker, Emily, I got in South Africa in 2001. She was all UK lines on dam side - Lynwater, and all portuguese breeding on  sire side - Stocdale. Stocdale used to be a well known kennel in Portugal and bred lots of show champions. If I remember rightly the Stocdale lines went back to lynwater dogs. The kennel I got Emily from imported particular dogs to enhance their lines. In both the uk and south Africa lines from different countries are imported and used in the breeding. Manacas is a Swedish kennel (I think) and dogs from here were brought to the uk and s.Africa. So, yes, quality dogs will be imported/ exported across borders to improve lines and widen the gene pool.

Lobo do Mar:
I searched for Stocdale and came up with this:
https://www.angelfire.com/co/stocdale/portindex.html
Seems they are/were 10 km from my house!
I need a Dog Breeding for Dummies article to learn about lines etc, any recommendations
Like I said, its just my Geek nature - no wish to breed, one Salty is enough for anyone :)
Love him to bits

Emilyoliver:
This is the sa kennel my dogs came from. And Emily’s parents  :luv:  Ricky was beautiful  :luv: 

I just learned about lines through research (because am a bit of an anorak  :005:). There is a useful cocker database to use as a starting point - try this: https://cockerspanieldatabase.info/en/

Lobo do Mar:
@emilyoliver

Thanks, that site gave me an idea - seems that there is a lot of international breeding, populations are not at all distinct

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