Dog breeds known for their health.....

Definitely don't subscribe to the Jackawawadoodlecocklepug theory (or should I say marketing ploy ;) ) However I have had a fair few Heinz 57 mutts over the years that never cost me a penny more than normal vaccs etc. for their entire long and robust life. Some of my pure bred dogs however have come close to emptying my bank account, or rather the vet that treated them has!
 
When I was young ;) I can remember that a lot of people had very attractive mongrels that were black and tan (like a chunky, courser furred Doberman, although what breeds were in them I have no idea). I can't remember any of those dogs struggling to breathe or dying young.

Where have the b&t mongrels gone? I haven't seen one for years.
 
My lurchers have lived to 19, 16 and I have a 15 year old who has just come back from a 10k walk. None of them have suffered from any major ailments. My girl who died at 19 needed a whole lot of stitches at various times as a youngster, but that's about all.
 
My bloody lurchers have been at the vet endlessly, far far more than any greyhound I’ve had - I’m never having another one after Millie goes!

George is an absolute Heinz 57 terrier love him, and has a number of health issues that I’ve never encountered in pure bred breeds before such as his partially collapsed larynx (which admittedly may be attributable to poor lead training when he was young, bearing in mind how he walks on a lead now ??)

The oldest I’ve ever had a dog live to was 14 for my first whippet - she and all her litter had heart issues, which was what she died off in the end. None of my non-KC registered greyhounds have made it beyond 13 (and that was one of them - lost all the others at 12 or less) ???

I see my mum’s notoriously unhealthy-doesn’t-everyone-know-how-many-health-issues-the-breed-has cavaliers regularly live healthy and active live to 14/15 years old.

Weird.....
 
blackcob said:
I realise I am probably not taking this thread in the spirit in which it was intended ;) but there is a whole list of dog breeds I wouldn't touch with a bargepole, not least of which anything with a disease named after it and anything one's boss refers to as a 'cancer factory'.
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Which breed has a disease named after it? I’m wracking my brains now ?
 
I was thinking westie itch! :p But more loosely any dog breed which you think of and immediately associate with a condition because you've seen so many with the same thing. I find it especially sad when folk lose a dog to a disease, go out and buy another of the same breed and it ends up with the same a few years down the line.
 
blackcob said:
I was thinking westie itch! :p But more loosely any dog breed which you think of and immediately associate with a condition because you've seen so many with the same thing. I find it especially sad when folk lose a dog to a disease, go out and buy another of the same breed and it ends up with the same a few years down the line.
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Wow I haven’t even heard of that! Not that I’ve really investigated owning a westie ?

I agree, I do wonder about anyone who doesn’t do a bit of research before they get a dog....or cat....or horse...or whatever? Unless they are an idiot like me of course who just sees a rescue dog and says ‘oh, how cute! Yes, I’ll have it!’ ????
 
All breeds have some issues it's generally a matter of the severity and degree of the issues seen within the breed.

I'm a terrible person ask me a breed and I'l give a pros and cons list. Apparently I ruin breeds for people all the time.

If you had to ask me what I thought was the healthiest breed in the world....

Greyhound most likely

Australian cattle dogs or Kelpies are pretty high on the list but hard work

Finnish lapphund :p
 
Aru said:
All breeds have some issues it's generally a matter of the severity and degree of the issues seen within the breed.

I'm a terrible person ask me a breed and I'l give a pros and cons list. Apparently I ruin breeds for people all the time.

If you had to ask me what I thought was the healthiest breed in the world....

Greyhound most likely

Australian cattle dogs or Kelpies are pretty high on the list but hard work

Finnish lapphund :p
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Hmmmm a faint breed bias there possibly? ???

I could also name health issues with pretty much every breed going, it always surprises me how much some breeds have a ‘reputation’ which can be repeatedly shared by those who clearly have little or no knowledge or exposure to that breed when other breeds with just as many issues are deemed to be ‘ok’ ?

I’m on greyhound numbers 6 and 7 now (I think? Could be 7 and 8??) and sadly I don’t think of them as a healthy breed at all ?
 
Meowy Catkin said:
When I was young ;) I can remember that a lot of people had very attractive mongrels that were black and tan (like a chunky, courser furred Doberman, although what breeds were in them I have no idea). I can't remember any of those dogs struggling to breathe or dying young.

Where have the b&t mongrels gone? I haven't seen one for years.
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our family aways had mongrels, usually black and tan markings like a dobie, the one i got when i was young came from a stall in petticoat lane, lived till 15 and was never ill, brilliant little dog. i now have a border collie/lab who has been very healthy and is almost 14 and the only thing apart from cuts and scrapes was when she had an attack of vestibular syndrome last year, my lurcher who was whippet/bedlington/bearded collie was PTS at almost 13 as she had arthritic hips... my latest dog is a heinz 57 and i know which breeds are in the mix, his dad was chi/jack russell and mum was patterdale/border terrier/lhasa apso/yorkshire terrier, so 6 breeds in all, he seems to have a cast iron stomach and is now just over 3 but hoping he will make old bones....
 
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