Discussion on crossing two breeds purposely

I can't bear the whole "designer dog" thing. Labradoodle , Springador..just a posh new language for "crossbred"...which my vet calls "mongrel".
Also, I am not a huge fan of pedigree dogs, as they seem to be so "managed" in their breeding, that the whole idea of natural selection in Darwinian terms has gone out of the window. Don't get me wrong, my last dog was an extraordinarily wonderful pure bred cocker, from Cruft winning lines.

Personally, I trawled several rescues, for a year, to find MY dog, before being phoned one day to say a friend of a friend had some collie/mastiff/lab/lurcher pups. Accidental find, maybe, but having some experience, that mix was fine by me.

Oh and BTW..for CALA..the bitch is now spayed, and my mongrel pup was neutered as soon as feasible. Ditto my two cats (both rescues)
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I just want to know where I can get a bullsh1t .
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Funnily enough, a few years ago I had someone bring to me to groom a French Bulldog x Shih Tzu - they called it a Bull Shihtz
 
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I can't bear the whole "designer dog" thing. Labradoodle , Springador..just a posh new language for "crossbred"...which my vet calls "mongrel".

Also, I am not a huge fan of pedigree dogs, as they seem to be so "managed" in their breeding, that the whole idea of natural selection in Darwinian terms has gone out of the window. Don't get me wrong, my last dog was an extraordinarily wonderful pure bred cocker, from Cruft winning lines.



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I'm not a fan of the cutesy names and I'm not hugely against it either. I've heard of people calling WelshxArabs Welarian, Morgan x Arabs have been Morabs for perhaps as long as Cockerpoos. In the states a popular breed of fancy show horse of a Arabx ASB is known as a National Show Horse. I went out of horses for about 10 or more years and when I came back to it there were suddenly QuarterMors, Walkaloosas and gosh, millions others. It can be really confusing to someone who's not that knowlegeable about horses or dogs or whatever, and they THINK they are getting a breed registered with a breed registry, with traceable lines and perhaps something they can show at a high level at a breed show.

Personally, I think that breeding a dog or a horse for a specific purpose (ie you might want to breed a Welsh Cob with a TB for a very specfic stamp and to use as a Show Hunter or whatever it is you want to do - but it has a specific use in mind) so long as the parents are fit and healthy and of good conformation, there's nothing particularly wrong with it. However, if there's suddenly a "market" for selling "Welsh-Breds" or "Thorough-Cobs" I think it gets dodgy.

However, I do think that managed breeding is kind of necessary if you're trying to breed to a purpose.

My hubby and I were not long ago having this discussion about what would happen to dogs if they were suddenly not neutered and left to reproduce as nature intended and go feral - ie natural selection. What would happen after hundreds/thousands of years - would they revert back to looking like wolves? would only ones that have that stamp survive -- leaving things like Chihs, Bichons, Lhasas, Bulldogs to die out because they aren't being managed or domesticated? If horses or cats were allowed to do this, their overall LOOK or stamp wouldn't change much - sure hairless ones or extreme breeds characteristics would disappear.

Sorry, I've completely rambled on
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My personal favourite new horse "breed" is the Georgian Grande . . . sounds like some very impressive ancient breed but it's a draft/draught x Saddlebred.:)

When dogs are left to make more dogs don't they all eventually revert back to "Generic Yellow Dog"? That's what most of the feral/wild dogs end up looking like, anyway.
 
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