Heinz 57 and Mongrels

My jack Russell stud has been popular. His last customer was a beagle which I found a bit odd. Jackabee I think the cross is called? Poor boy was up on tip toes.
 
soundb0y said:
Jackabee I think the cross is called?
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SexyGreyFox said:
Am I just being old and missing the point or do you agree that people are now making money out of mugs?
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Its the regular costs which add up to far more than the upfront cost.

I paid £2000 for my PC in 2016, its fine for the foreseeable unless components die, but ultimately i've spent the same on energy drinks in that timeframe.

Likewise how much does 5 years worth of dog food cost, along with vet bills and insurance? So pretty much that monthly cost is permanent, and will very quickly surpass £2000.
 
platinum87 said:
Likewise how much does 5 years worth of dog food cost, along with vet bills and insurance? So pretty much that monthly cost is permanent, and will very quickly surpass £2000.
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but you could have gone to a dogs home and got a proper mongrel for way less which meant you can afford that better graphics card.
 
A big reason why everything seems to be crossed with a poodle nowadays is because their fur doesn't cause allergies like a lot of other breeds and it doesn't malt anywhere near as much.
 
ANDREW GREEN said:
Overbreeding is actually bad for the dog's medical health.
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True.
Inbreeding through thoroughbred dogs have all kinds of medical issues.
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Sometimes, if breeders are useless.
The 'Mongrel' is the healthier dog
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Total myth.

Slapping two different breeds together in no way guarantees that only the best genes make it through.

It is a complete crapshoot, just like how 2 human parents have no idea which traits/genes they will pass down to their children.

Keep in mind, things are no longer doing the 'natural' survival of the fittest, which would over time cause useful traits for survival to become dominant, now we are interfering an creating many breeds that would never survive without human intervention (pug anyone?).

Part of the problem of these cross-breeds is people just think it will automatically pick the bits of the breeds that they want. People usually get a specific breed because of its traits. If the dog is a mixed breed it'll exhibit different traits. For example, if your Lab is mixed with Collie it'll likely be very nippy with a predisposition to herding. It may also be neurotic and to top it off, it may have some fatal genetic issues that you don't know about - like the MDR1 gene mutation that collies have.

Different breeds have different needs and different developmental stages. A Collie in a Labrador body is likely to hurt itself because it's definitely not as agile as a Collie in a Collie body.
 
krooton said:
True.

Sometimes, if breeders are useless.

Total myth.

Slapping two different breeds together in no way guarantees that only the best genes make it through.

It is a complete crapshoot, just like how 2 human parents have no idea which traits/genes they will pass down to their children.

Keep in mind, things are no longer doing the 'natural' survival of the fittest, which would over time cause useful traits for survival to become dominant, now we are interfering an creating many breeds that would never survive without human intervention (pug anyone?).

Part of the problem of these cross-breeds is people just think it will automatically pick the bits of the breeds that they want. People usually get a specific breed because of its traits. If the dog is a mixed breed it'll exhibit different traits. For example, if your Lab is mixed with Collie it'll likely be very nippy with a predisposition to herding. It may also be neurotic and to top it off, it may have some fatal genetic issues that you don't know about - like the MDR1 gene mutation that collies have.

Different breeds have different needs and different developmental stages. A Collie in a Labrador body is likely to hurt itself because it's definitely not as agile as a Collie in a Collie body.
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Not sure i totally agree.

It's less about wanting the 'best' bits to come out of a cross breed, it's more that the genetic pool is bigger so those harmful recessive genes are less likely to become an issue.

The problem with selective breeding for a particular trait in a dog is that the gene pool is so much smaller because there are fewer dogs being selected to breed, hence stud dogs, and recessive genes become more common than they would through natural breeding.
 
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