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Bookends and twinsets
Topic Started: Sep 12 2013, 12:22 PM (246 Views)
Kahu
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Bookends and twinsets

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Why are there so many bookend pairings of pets? Matching duos of dogs or cats? Well, one reason is that when it comes to pets, one is wonderful, but two is the charm; it's more fun with two. But I'm sure that a lot of owners have closely matching pets because back when it came to choosing, from the breeder or from the shelter, it was too hard to go home with just one.

Whatever the reason is, there are a lot of bookend pet combinations around. Some are hard to distinguish from each other; some are easy to tell apart, but possessed of a twinned way of thinking and behaving.
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Darcie
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Kahu, I hope you don't mind that I took the link to a private forum. I am sure the people there will enjoy this a lot. It it is not OK let me know and I will delete the link.
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agate
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Great pictures.
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campy
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How do they breed them that way?

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Kahu
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Sep 13 2013, 03:33 AM
How do they breed them that way?

Sometimes it seems to be by pure accident of birth ... but professional breeders/farmers use a genetic selection method. For example, sheep farmers deliberately breed stock which have a history of multiple births which increases the likelihood of twins or triplets. It doesn't necessarily increase the numbers of identical twins, but it does increase the stock numbers and the farm's productivity.

Just by accident I happened to see the following article this morning ...

Wherever you look at St Theresa's School, you do a double take.
The Plimmerton primary school has 10 sets of twins in its roll of about 180 pupils. "There's no evidence to suggest what [the cause] is, and we're pretty sure it's not the water," principal Zita Smith said.

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erka
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Love the pictures.

Here is Sierra and her friend Jake - book ends between a ball!!

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