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Has Dog Breeding Gone Too Far? A Guest Essay for the New York Times by Alexandra Horowitz

NYT Has Dog Breeding Gone Too Far
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Article Published May 9, 2024  New York Times, By Alexandra Horowitz 


Has Dog Breeding Gone Too Far?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/09/opinion/purebred-dogs-inbreeding.html


We may not mean to, but we are hurting the dogs we claim to love. Take this quiz to see if YOU know which dog breeds are more inbred than others.

This article calls out the amount of inbreeding in many dog breeds and related health impacts.
It quotes an article FDC Founder Jessica Perry Hekman coauthored https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0639
FDC’s mission, activities and resources aim to support people address these issues through better understanding the health of dogs they plan to breed, and supporting outcrossing to address genetic risk. 

Author Horowitz is a professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she teaches seminars in canine cognition, creative nonfiction writing, and audio storytelling. As Senior Research Fellow, she heads the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard.