We had to take a test in high school, or maybe middle school. It was a simple 1 question test with three possible choices.
We were asked to read three descriptions of people and pick the one who we thought would make the best president of our country.
I don't remember the details of them all, but one was a person who was overweight, smoke and drank a lot, etc., etc. Another was a former criminal or something or another, and the last choice was a man who never smoked or drank, went to church, or something or another, etc.
Everyone picked the third choice in our class. Then the teacher told us who the third choice was. It was Hitler.
The point to that is who cares where the dog came from, if it has good lines and is healthy, why not use it to better the breed?
Until there is better structure, worldwide, with better (read: stricter) guidelines on breeding, everyone is just spinning their wheels.
A handful of people who are trying to do the right thing, on their own, are nothing compared to a hundred of handfuls of people out to make a buck.
Are other breeds having the same issues? Can't all the reputable breeders in the land come together and start a club of some sort? As in, like real estate agents under the Realtor moniker. As in, if you aren't a member of this 'club' you are not considered a reputable breeder trying to further the betterment of the breed? Can't there be some type of fundraiser(s) to gather money to further genetic testing?
I make some bad ass brownie cookies. I could probably make $20 off a few dozen or more. If 10,000 people did that, that's 200 grand. That would get a rocket surgeon off their bums, no?
I don't know the ins and outs of the breeding community nationwide, but with so many folks under their own names and breeding regimens, it seems that many are choosing to take on this challenge single handedly, while maintaining that there are others out their doing the same thing subconsciously.
Minor nitpick: The Doberman Pinscher isn't a species, it's a breed. Also note that Louis Dobermann and his successors created a new breed by mixing several other breeds. IMO, if the numbers of healthy purebred Dobes of proper temperament get so low that inbreeding becomes a threat, judicious cross-breeding with healthy and temperamentally-similar breeds (e.g., the Beauceron) can help re-establish the breed.
Sorry, the original poster was correct, the doberman
is a species. 'Breed' is not recognized on the biological classification order, which is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
'Breed' is just the definition of the manner in which they are produced, because they are commonly produced by humans.