Again, a very good read from TFX!

My question to you is this........i see where your talking about physical traits and how they tend to "skip" generations...........but, as far as genes go the physical features are just a handfull/out of 1000's of genes.

Do they technically come in pairs? Or do they come scrambled? Example.........take your ranchero dog, he was a spitting image of abbott as far as looks go. But did he carry the same traits abbot carried as far as athletics & performance?

i remember reading that Bad Billy himself was a stifle wrecking monster in the [], i also remember hearing that Red Johnny was a rough SOB too!

so back to the ranchero example.......eventhough he is a physical carbon copy of Abbott, did the similiar performance gene come along with those physical genes, making the Complete package inheritance from Abbott and that corner of the ped..........OR.........is it more like , he LOOKS like abbott and performs more like RJ & chinaman when competing??

im not questioning your logic or theories i just want to get a better understanding of how this stuff works......do genes come scrambled or in complete "paires" persay?

again thanks for the post, it was a great read.