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If the voters determine not to retain Mr. Davis, the office would devolve on the person attaining the most votes in the second question, who would only need win by a plurality, not the majority indicated in the article.

p>However, I would unhesitatingly stipulate that should Ms. Feinstein run as the single Democrat on the ballot and should Mr. Davis be recalled, there is an excellent chance of her being the next governor of California -- Terry McAuliffe machinations notwithstanding. br> -- Sam Keck br> Indian Wells, CA /p> p> BREEDING BREEDS CONTEMPT br> Re: George Neumayr's Sterilization Particulars : /p>

Some years back I showed Rottweilers in dog shows. The standard for judging at American Kennel Club dog shows is "Conformation" in which each dog is compared to an idealized concept of each breed. In effect, winners have to physically "conform" as closely as possible to the AKC published Standard for each breed. When Doberman Pinschers (another German breed) were all the rage, a beautiful Dobie won "Best of Show" at the Westminster Kennel Club show. He had a "fault": an extra tooth. He also had a bad disposition. The two faults were genetically connected. He was put "at stud" and fathered most Dobermans sold at the time, and the bad disposition was widely propagated, giving rise to the reputation Dobermans had for biting.

One source for Rottweilers that I used was a German immigrant who imported her breeding stock from Germany. She told me that in Germany each breed in each "ward" had a "Breed Warden" who had final say on which dog could breed with which bitch. When the puppies were born, the Breed Warden would visit the breeder, examine the pups, and "Cull" the ones which he/she deemed unworthy of growing up and propagating the breed. Culling consisted of killing the non-conforming specimens. The same process was used when the pups were grown enough to be sold. An extra tooth, for example, would have resulted in instant culling.

In deference to the science behind this practice, which is totally ignored by "puppy mills" that breed dogs purely for sale, Nature's way of conforming a breed is for the pack to kill any member which exhibits any difference in appearance, behavior, etc. I myself have seen this behavior at work on chicken farms. The flock will peck to death any chicken which doesn't "conform." Further evidence of this obsession with "survival of the fittest" is another German practice when a bitch has more pups than she has nipples. The blind newborn pups are placed on one side of a pen and the bitch on the other. The pup(s) which do not win this little race to their dinner are culled. In America we enlist the services of another bitch of whatever breed which has an excess of feeding capabilities as a "Foster Mother." This practice results in more pups for sale, and in the German opinion, pups with less than optimal survival instincts.

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