Reply #3: Do you believe that dalmatians should go extinct?

[Xithras]

Dogs exist today because our ancestors took wild wolves and bred out the features that were incompatible with domestication. "Bred out" means that you cull the ones that display the undesirable traits, and only allow the desirable ones to breed. Do this long enough and the undesirable traits disappear completely.

Dalmatian breeders basically have two choices today, they can allow the entire breed to die off, or they can keep breeding them and culling the dogs with the flawed genes until the deafness vanishes. There is no happy ending to this question, and which side you fall on really depends on how much you like dalmatians. Personally, I like dalmatians and think that it would be a great loss for them to die out completely.