What breed do you think my dog is?

Fair point...... but on average there are many more people who are dog lovers than horse lovers.
I would think a huge percentage more people in this country have dogs than do horses!!! Obviously I don't know the figures and don't want to start getting petty!!
 
regardless of KC standards of no, I'm certainly unimpressed by OP's attitude of ignoring anyone who disagrees with her and insisting how wonderful anyone who agrees with her is.
I considered breeding my cross bred for a moment, based on the fact she is a good ratter, pleasant, cute little dog.
However, she has an overbit, by a good bit so would not be suitable and whilst people say they would love one like her, how many would actually take one??
I also think it is very different breeding a bitch and a dog, with a crossbred bitch I feel it tends to be more common, I would not personally use a crossbred stud even on a crossbred bitch and am not sure you will find anyone who will, or who will pay for it...
IT is entirely up to you, but will you take responsibility for unwanted pups? All of them? As there is no guarantee the bitches owner will.
Do you know his pedigree back a good few generations?
Are you prepared for him to become 'randy'?
What out of interest are his bad points?
And what health tests would he need?
All the tests and advertising will add up in cost.
So yes.. I personally wouldn't stand him at stud as I don't think many people will use him, but he is your dog at the end of the day.
 
what is it people have against cross-breds? I have had two lurchers so far and they were fit, healthy, active, intelligent, biddable dog that were formidable workers - and by definition, a lurcher is a cross-bred (tho' some of the dogs currently being defined as lurchers are either long-dogs or simply hybrids that might have a bit of sighthound in them)

there's nothing special about a pedigree except that there's a far higher - if quantifiable - chance of creating genetic weakness which is directly related to the degree of in-breeding as defined by the size of the Coefficient of Inbreeding. A recent letter-answer by Malcolm WIllis in Dogs Today said that the CoI in most pedigree dogs was rarely over 10% - which is an ideal, but is actually, in my experience, very wishful thinking. And the higher the CoI, the greater the chance of inherited dysfunction

not all the inherited catastrophes are things you can see.

I still think there are way too many dogs in the country and nobody should breed at all for the next five years to cut the numbers, after which everyone who wants a dog should be made to a) sit a basic test in health and nutrition and b) go to classes with a registered dog trainer, but that apart, there's nothing particularly wrong with this dog....

kennel blindness is one thing. Deciding that a cross-breed's somehow inferior is simply eugenics

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I am not going to re-enter this debate as to whether or not you should breed from your dog, but would just like to say that the whole point of a pedigree is that you can trace a dogs parentage. I can look at my GSDs pedigrees and know what faults certain dogs had several generations back. When there was a major problem with epilepsy in GSDs many years ago it was possible to identify the main suspect lines and avoid them. Not 100% reliable but it helped.
 
I have nothing against cross breeds. All the dogs Ive had have been mongrels/cross breeds and they have more character/individuality than your bog standard, production line golden lab. IMO

BUT I do have something against breeding from crossbreeds who have nothing special about them, just because the owner thinks the sun shines out of the dogs ass, doesnt mean its of stud quality.

I would never ever PAY for a crossbreed to be used as a stud. Its daft.
 
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a great many people have harped on about breed standards and the fact that he isn't KC registered as a reason not to breed from him.

the rest wouldn't breed because he's a cross-bred

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Not true - I clearly stated that I would not use the dog at stud because there are quite enough small terrier type puppies around already without adding to their numbers. Granted this prospective stud dog owner MIGHT ensure that there are 9 homes lined up for every bitch his/her dog mates - but this does not detract from the hundreds if not thousands of this type of dog in rescue kennels/being advertised week after week etc

I thought it was Iceni btw?
 
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I thought it was Iceni btw?

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Tacitus spelled it Iceni, but he was going by a phonetic pronunciation from his father in law (Agricola)

on the coins of the time, from the tribe itself, it's spelled 'Eceni'.

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