that has had its second litter, have a pup that was the definate breed of the first litters father, but the second litter was a different father breed.EG.. female lab has first pups with german sheppard= lab x g shep. female lab has 2nd litter with bull terrier but a G Shep pup comes out again.
2006-06-22 05:02:02 · 7 answers · asked by westoz 2 in Pets ➔ Dogs
It is not possible for a dog to store sperm from a past breeding , some animals can do that but a dog is NOT one that can.
There had to have been a "stranger in the night" somewhere.
Genetics are sneaky, they will show up 2 or 3 generations down the line.
Your female may have had a great-grand parent that was part German Shepard and part lab. The G Shep gene may not have shown up until your dogs litter.
Or the same may have occurred in the male dogs background.
Or, as was suggested, a G Shep made a clandestine visit to you female when you were not looking.
And YES a female can produce a litter of puppies and they CAN have different sires. Granted the dominant male will probably be the sire to most of the puppies simply because he breeds with her more, thus bombarding her with his sperm.
Sperm are nasty little buggers, they will destroy all invading sperm.
But if the dominant male is fighting with another male over his so called " breeding rights".....YEP, you guessed it .....sneaky dog #4 and #5 will get in on the action.
So there has to be a past dormant G Shep gene in the back ground of you female or the male. Or you had a midnight visitor.
2006-06-22 05:36:28 · answer #1 · answered by Chihuahua Magic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard of a dog having puppies in the same litter with different fathers and the pups in the same litter being bulls and g.shep.'s , but I don't know if they can save the sperm from a past litter. Perhaps the first dog got in again, or the mother has a mix in her.
2006-06-22 12:09:55 · answer #2 · answered by lildevildayz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard to say unless, perhaps the lab female has shepard genes in her from somewhere down the line..I have also heard that a female dog can 'take seed' from multiple males. I do not know if that is true but it would explain some odd litters.
2006-06-22 12:08:49 · answer #3 · answered by AutumnDays 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, its not possible.
The male's sperm only lives for 8 days.
She had to have been in contact with another male, or she has another breed in her own ancestry, or the bull terrier was not purebred.
2006-06-22 12:09:46 · answer #4 · answered by Chetco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't believe it is possible... Maybe the German SHepherd snuck in and bred her too....Or maybe she has some shepherd in her background....
2006-06-22 12:05:53 · answer #5 · answered by litlebit_bulldog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like your dog has shepherd somewhere in the line, or more than one dog got to her.
2006-06-22 12:06:48 · answer #6 · answered by ♥monamarie♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Been there, done that...
2006-06-22 12:06:00 · answer #7 · answered by Snowman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋