As a Breeding and Research Facility it is our commission to continue refining and perfecting the breed by moving forward.   It is therefore our practice to retire our Breeding dogs or allow them out to other breeders, once we have their progeny to breed on with into the next generation.  Numbers are kept to a minimum at RM which allows each and every boy or girl to live as a much loved individual in either one of our carefully selected Guardian Homes, or here with us. 

All Rutland Manor Breeding Dogs are Health Screened, and DNA Profiled.  Rutland Manor does not inbreed nor does it heavily linebreed.  Line breeding and In Breeding are often done in the pursuit of pre-potency in pure bred breeding stock.  In 'Pure' Breeds, an inbreeding co-efficient of 30% is considered to be quite low and perfectly  acceptable.   RUTLAND MANOR  has a self imposed benchmark  maximum of   10%  and more usually between 1% and 3%. and has achieved this without resorting to inbreeding,  via carefully selected outcross infusions at appropriate intervals and for appropriate reasons over twenty one years.