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Tell me…What's Your Opinion of "Hybrid Vigor"?

Basenji Health Issues & Questions
  • My all-time fav is to hear how wonderful a labradoodle is and how healthy they are….

    I mean, a stinky hairy lab bred to a poodle and they think that there will never by any issues?? Hihgly unlikely.
    Even better, the most common issue with both breeds is PRA (progressive retinal atrophy, aka 'gradual night blindness"... so the resulting puppies are not any better off when it comes to PRA !!!

    DOH!! :eek:

  • I deal with nutrition and not genetics but I do think that hybrid vigor applies to breeding two genetically different individuals, this can apply to two different breeds within the same species.

    The problem with designer breeds is that one generation does not constitute a new breed. I'm not sure about dogs but in cattle you have to have at least 5 or 6 generations before the offspring are considered close enough genetically to be a new breed. When people cross two breeds, like a labrador and a poodle, you can never be certain what characteristics you will get. From the first generation, if you put two adult dogs side by side it is unlikely you could recognize them as the same breed. To make long story short a cross from the first generation, at least from the animal science perspective, is not a new breed.

    In my opinion it isn't very responsible to breed indiscriminately because something looks cute. Designing a new breed with a specific working purpose and end goal in mind is something I don't have a problem with but I just don't think that most designer dog breeders have the knowledge to do this appropriately.

  • darn and here I was going to borrow a Shi Tzu bitch to breed to my basenjis new breed name: BASHItZ - I think that works don't you :)

  • Hmmmmm, I think you'll have to work on a few generations with that one-long hair, erect ears, bug eyes, long muzzle, short legs-I don't knoooowwww!

  • Naw with good marketing I think the american public will buy anything! Sad comentary isn't it.

  • @dmcarty:

    Naw with good marketing I think the american public will buy anything! Sad comentary isn't it.

    3

    Hey, people would buy it just because of the "cool" name!!! :rolleyes:

  • Oh well - you can foold some of the people some of the time….....

    How's the weather out there Ms Pat? We are a warm cloudy 27 - a heat wave in MN!

  • @dmcarty:

    Oh well - you can foold some of the people some of the time….....

    How's the weather out there Ms Pat? We are a warm cloudy 27 - a heat wave in MN!

    It is 49 and raining… and this is the 7th straight day of rain.... believe me for California... this is "hell" for Basenjis...gggg...

  • When it gets cold and snowy here - for about the first week my dogs go out and run right back in and look at me like they are saying "i'll go out later when it's warmenr."

    Eventually the need to poop and the knowledge that mom will be pissed if it's in the house - wins out. Can wait for spring mud

  • Speaking of "desinger" breeds… my dh (for the longest time!) was trying to convince me to breed our Papillion to a mini daschund. All I could picture was huge ears that may or may not flip up at a moments notice, a super long body, and long legs. It would look like something out of a Salvidor Dali picture!!! EEk!

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