Dog sizes

From: Carl Fink <carlf_at_panix.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:48:06 -0400


Henrix <henrix_at_pp.sbbs.se> wrote:

> > From: TTrotsky_at_aol.com
>
> > But dogs vary from the size of a housecat to the size of a largish dog,
> > and they're one species.
>
> Mostly through careful breeding. If you would let them breed as they want,
> they will in a few generations all be mongrels of more or less the same size.
> Are gloranthans actively breeding different strains of alynxes?

Wolves, coyotes, jackals, and domestic dogs are at least arguably the same species (in that they interbreed.). There's a pretty wide variation in sizes there.
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