GENETIC TYPE AND THE EXDOCItlXES 



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English bulldog FoS, there are many reasons to believe that 

 they have the same general behavior variations as found 

 among the bassethound-English bulldog F 2 s. 



MEMBER OF A PURE TYPE B WITH PHYSICAL 

 AT. NORMALITIES 



It is well known that occasionally a member of a pure 

 breed will deviate in physical form from the normal of that 

 breed. In most cases this is due to a diseased condition, or 

 to some abnormality in development, resulting, for example, 

 from an unbalanced diet. A dog of this type was 712$, a 

 German shepherd, which was heavier than any other dog 

 of this breed in our kennels. Ordinarily the German shepherd 

 is thin bodied, but this animal had a chest index of 85, placing 

 it in the round bodied group. In the conditioned salivary 

 reflex situation, the behavior of this dog was similar to 

 that of the bassethound. Complete inhibition was soon de- 

 veloped and the animal refused to react either to the signals 

 or to food. When this dog was autopsied, the ovaries were 

 found to be diseased and cystic, and the thyroids and pituitary 

 abnormal. It is suggested that when a member of a breed 

 deviates from the typical form for that breed in physique 

 or behavior, specific glandular variations can be found. This 

 further emphasizes the importance of glands on both behavior 

 and morphological form, and is treated at length by Anderson 

 in Section VII. 



This case is an example of a pure bred German shepherd 

 which does not conform to breed type either in physical 

 form or behavior. It is not maintained that every German 

 shepherd or bassethound will conform to the A or B classifica- 

 tion. There are many factors which affect behavior even 

 after the animal has matured and the body is formed. It is 

 our contention, however, that when an abnormality in glands 

 affects behavior, the bodily form will sooner or later reflect 

 this condition. In every case of a deviation from the normal 

 of the pure group, as the German shepherd just discussed, 

 an abnormality will be found in the glands or some other 

 bodily organ. 



