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Originally Posted by NewYorky  Allow me to elaborate:
I am not asserting that mating two differing purebreds is creating another purebred, nor am I focusing on the preservation of the pedigree. What I am raising is mating differing breeds can help the health of the progeny under the genus dog not classification of breed. Statistically one could decrease the inheritance of certain genetic diseases through the expansion of the gene pool.
This matter of introducing other breeds to improve the health of a particular pedigree of dog while maintaining pure breed designation gets really difficult, as referenced in an earlier post. |
I'm not a Scientist, but I can say from what I have seen, and researched, that I don't agree.
Introducing another breed to improve the health of a particular pedigree of dog is not helping. In simple terms: Once mixed (introduced) it's mixed, likely to inherit issues from both breeds and create others. I actually know some women with mixed breeds who have spent too much free time during these last 15 years with serious vet visits for issues caused by genetics. Things that they didn't have any idea would happen because they don't know the pedigree line of their dogs. They think I'm nuts for believing in purebreds.
Bless them for trying to give these mixed dogs a good life, but I'm not a believer in mating different breeds intentionally. I do know that accidents happen when owning two types of breed, and some are extremely cute, but to do it intentionally...NO. It serves no great purpose to add something else to current problems. You don't know which side the dog will inherit it's traits from. There are vets, scientist, and others trying the argument that mixed is better, but with enough breeds to choose from already, IMO people should be trying to make the future for purebreds healthier within the current breeds.
Oh and those dogs didn't live for 15 years. They died early and the owners just went and saved another mixed one, and inherited problems...again.