What crosses have you all seen that you found interesting (good or bad
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Greg Jennings wrote:IMHO, when people crossbreed, it's like breeding Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein hoping to get his brains and her looks. The problem is that it just doesn't work out that way.
As I understand it, the original hope for Labradoodles was a guide dog that was more hypoallergenic. I do know that I see that claim in advertising for litters. The bald fact is that the allergy is to a protein in the dog's skin and saliva.
BAYDOG wrote:What ya'll need to remember is , that at one time, some with'in the last 100 years or so, you're "PureBreed" was a Mutt and a cross, just some food for thought.
Except for the Brit which was bred randomly by the French peasants on performance alone, all of the continental breeds were bred and developed by the kennel people who worked for the royality of the country of their orgin. These people lived and worked with the dog their whole life. Its all they did and I am sure many and probably most knew about as much about breeding their animals as we do today and possibly in some areas even more. They were people who had a single driving force and didn't have people pulling in all different directions looking for different qualities in the dogs they were producing. With a single goal or standard in place they were easily able to breed and cull to produce the dog they were trying to developin both type and performance.tommyboy72 wrote:Ezzy I am going to have to pose a question to you. Many of these dog breeds were developed in the 15 or 16 or 1700's in Europe. What do you really think the educational system of the world was like back in the dark ages? There was bubonic plague, a mini ice age, the Spanish Inquisition. Yes there were Da Vinci, Galileo, and Tesla but how many were self taught or learned through reading and experimentation. Seriously do you really think the developers of these breeds really understood genetics, COI, linebreeding, etc. I for one do not. I believe they took a couple of dogs who were good hunters and bred them hoping to get another good hunter. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it did not. Originally dogs were cross bred for their traits and abilities and what they could bring to the table (literally) not because they would make a cute designer breed or they were hypoallergenic or too hotten up or cool down a line. I think only in the last 100-150 years have breeders actually begun to try to develop and tweak breeds like we see today but the origins of many of these dogs were a chance mating or a planned pairing but based on the hunting abilities of each individual parent rather than breeding for a particular job such as upland hunting or waterfowl hunting or coon hunting. JMO