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Originally Posted by Cerise  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. |
I do respect your opinion, but I respectfully am going to have to disagree with your contention that everyone should only breed purebred dogs. The overall health of the dogs would depend on how the individual dogs are selected for breeding, either mixed or pure. There are breeders of both who run the full range of the spectrum, bad to great. The numbers of each - who knows, I don't. Anecdotal accounts on either side are not anything to base an argument on, an opinion yes, a well thought out discussion - no. One would have to site scientific studies based on empirical data to debate this properly. I for one do not have the time nor inclination to do so. IMHO people should retain the right to choose whatever kind of dog they want pure or mixed. The one thing I will state we should all do is work to keep them healthy, happy and give back some of that love that they give so freely to us.
