If you take 2 purebred dogs of the same breed and breed them to get a quality animal, why should you expect?

Question

Why should you expect any less from breeding 2 purebred dogs of different breeds?

Answer 1

First of all, you only get "quality" when you breed dogs of quality.

Being of the same breed doesn't automatically make them "quality". Have they been tested against genetic disease? Proven worthy of breeding through shows/trails/working? What about the dogs behind them in their pedigree? Yes? Then, yeah, you very likely will get a "quality animal".

I suppose the same could be said of two dogs of different breeds, if all of the above were still true...except for one very important point: Nobody with the knowledge, time, and money to do the testing and prove their dogs worthy would cross two purebred dogs of different breeds, because they would understand that there is NO POINT in making a "designer mix" on purpose when wonderful mutts already die in shelters on a DAILY BASIS.

The fact is, designer mixes come from poorly-bred purebred parents, without fail. They are bred by people looking for money, who aren't interested in learning the differences between a poorly-bred purebred and a well-bred purebred. They just know that their purebreds "got papers" and can produce puppies.

THAT is why you can't expect a "quality animal" out of two purposely-crossed purebreds. In fact, you have only the faintest idea of what you'll get, period.

ADDED:
(Looking at your answer to someone else's question) -- Please don't rely on the myth of "hybrid vigor" in mixed breeds. "Hybrid Vigor" applies to simple genetics, i.e. those of different species of pea plant. Purebred dogs are neither separate species nor genetically simple, and thus the idea of hybrid vigor cannot be applied. In fact, calling mutts "Hybrids" is just plain ignorant.

ADDED: mcnatt
1. Dogs are not people. Please don't make an argument based on anthropomorphism and then call me the "idiot"! LOL!

2. "Mutt" isn't a derogatory term unless you make it one. To me, it's just another, shorter way of saying "mixed breed".

3. "Cuter than ever" isn't a reason to make puppies. There are plenty of extremely cute mutts (oops! There I go again!) sitting in shelters -- they don't cost preposterous amounts of money, and they are equally deserving of good homes.

Answer 2

Some people are so judgmental that they sound dumb!!!!They are brainwashed ,people in the USA are now breeding with different cultures,ethnic,and even totally different genes,and races are those people "MUTTS" Listen to your self you sound like a total idiot!!!!!Some dogs are cuter than ever!!And what really gets their goat is that people are selling these "Mutts" for an enormous amount of money.They are kinda stuck with their "Beliefs"right or wrong because they preach the word about "STANDARD"Sorry in the dog world everything is not Black and White!!!!!After all Every book you read on every dog says that many mixes were tried before certain Breeds were proven and some have only recently been approved by you know who???Go figure!!!!!If you know your breeds and you and maybe your vet thinks it would be a good idea to cross Breed do it ,hopefully with 2 sound dogs you will even create the "Best In Show " some day .Go FOR IT!!!!!!Good Luck!!!!!!!

Answer 3

Even if the two dogs you are planning to breed are purebred, the puppies obviously will be mutts if the breeds are different. Not to mention, your female will now be tainted and no longer a pedigree. A female dog can have throwbacks to the litters she has had. Say you have a purebreed Black Lab and you mate her with a Shepard, she can have puppies a few litters down the line that have traits of the Shepard. Unlike in humans if you have a white female that has babies with a black male, if she has babeis with a white male, they'll obviously stay white.

Answer 4

You can't just look at 2 dogs and decide that you will get quality animals. You have to know the faults in the 2 dogs that you are breeding, cause there is no ' perfect ' dog.. You have to know it's pedigree, the dogs in it's background. You have to know why they died, what sort of things they passed on, what kind of problems they might carry.
You might get pretty, by breeding to quality looking dogs, but you might get a whole huge bunch of horrible health problems, by not checking into and knowing the backgrounds of both dogs.

Answer 5

With 2 purebreds of the same breed you are breeding to try and get the best features of both parent, the breeder is after a certain goal. The resulting litter can then be measured against the breed standard, to see if they suceeded, not every pup born in a litter is guaranteed to be of top quality, but taking only the best pup or pups from that mating they will then use them for a a future making and that is how the breed is improved, A good breeder usually keeps what they think it the best of the litter and sells whatever else they suspect as good quality to show homes(any that do not seem as good will go to pet homes) in the event the pups the breeder chose for themselves do not mature into super high quality, they can then pin there hopes one one of the ones they sold for show and it leaves them the possibility of buying one of the offspring has pup sires/gives birth to, so as to continue improving the line

with mixed breeds there is no stardard in place to measure the offspring against so there is no way to know if any of the resulting pups hold any kind of promise to make it worthwhile to breed them. and when you breed FI pups they have no consistency one pup may take after mom in color height and temperment and rest of the traits can come from dad the next pup may look and act almost indentical to mom, the next on the dad, you would have to breed them down 3 more generations to start seeing consistancy amongest thr litter but when you do any genetic flaws that were in either the original pure bred mom or dad will start showing up in the pups


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Answer 6

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Answer 7

Well, in terms of genetics, each chromosome is carrying two alleles, and because the two dogs are different breeds, their alleles for different characteristics such as fur colour, nose shape, eye shape etc, will be different, and when these alleles combine, they will form a new genotype, and most likely a new phenotype as well, meaning their visible characteristics, depending on which alleles combine, and whether they act in a simple dominance/recessiveness, co-dominant, incomplete dominant, or epistatic manner; would influence their characteristics, which could be the same as one parent only (somewhat) or they may be completely different, and a new phenotype would result.

Answer 8

It's not just the beauty you evaluate before breeding. You need to look at the genetic lines of both breeding dogs. Dogs pass recessive genes in breeding....defective genes you cannot see until pups are born.

Answer 9

And why would anyone want to breed two different breeds? Then all you have is mutts. The whole idea of breeding is to improve the quality of that particular breed.

Answer 10

To Begin with every dog of every breed will have two genes at every gene loci. It is what is imprinted on those genes that will determine what the dog looks and acts like.
When bred each puppy will get one gene from each loci from each parent randomly for a total of four possible combinations of each of the 270,000,000 genes that make up a dog. So each puppy has a 1 in 1,080,000,000 chance of being the puppy you desire.