i totally agree with borderdawn and mischevious, these dogs can have some terrible problems not just with their skin and eyesight but also their hearing, temperament and conformation, please visit this site and you will see what I mean :

http://www.geocities.com/~amazondoc/albinism/

What a lovely dog ive never seen one of these before what a shame they get breed in this way and have so many health problems

I cant believe people would breed an animal and not care what health problems that the dogs may have! Poor doggies!! I dont think that FootyBird was being cruel about the dobe being cool, not everyone is clued up, its not like we get taught this at school is it! Anyway when she read about about it she understand that this is a terrible thing!!

StaffieMad

I have to say not so keen on the look for health reasons, bad enough having a white dog in the sun but can you imagine a dog like this? I have seen these pics on the molosserdogs website.

I don't think Footybird had the slightest bad intention at all. In fact its a good thing the thread was posted, now everybody is aware of these dogs, Footybird has done the breed a huge favour, I for one am very pleased.
Dawn.

Thanks Staffie mad, and borderdawn for understanding what I actuaaly mean!!! And myschievous is right they may not nessacarily be purposly bred like that all the time sometimes they just have a pigment defect, which is what I originly thought when I saw the pic. As we have albino wallabies where I work that have bred naturally with grey wallabies and the pigment defect has effected two of the young. But this was not purposly done, or totally expected.

They come with so many health problems there is nothing cool about them, they can all be traced back to 1 bitch and they are bred for one reason only and thats money. I cant see what the attraction is give me a black or brown any day.
Mary

Unfortunately they have been purposely bred and in this Country! from an imported bitch. I won't go into the whys and where-fors, suffice to say the majority of genuine Dobermann folk were disgusted and horrified.
Dawn.

How do people know that they are all bred from one bitch? why can't some of them actually be born with an unlucky defect??? And then they may pass the gene onto babies!!! And I KNOW that they SHOULDN't be bred from but then that means they would be from a different bitch. I also prefer the 'normal' colours but just because it shouldn't be bred and aren't 'normal' don't mean they are any different or cool in some way or another!!!

This is a really contentious, heated debate for the dobermann community. I remember being on a dobermann forum years ago where people were actually calling for the culling of albino puppies. When I asked if they thought it ok to at least rescue one of these dobermanns, the replies were along the lines of "absolutely no way, they should be culled - if you rescue one and walk it, people will admire it and want one".

I know nothing about the origins of any cases of albinism, but I would be surprised if this one bitch manufactured her albino genes on her own The bitch's parents would both have to be carriers or presenters of the recessive gene.

Becs