WHY WE DO NOT SUPPORT CROSS BREEDING.

This thread was supposed to have been shared a long time ago but there haven't been enough time and chance to put up a thread like this let alone focusing on this special topic.

@_ovpn and @maleek_mixes recently asked us to explain why it is bad to cross breed dogs and we are glad to observe that over the past few months some set of persons are actually interested in embracing responsible breeding and that is why such a question was asked.

The major excuse why people cross breed dogs is to tell you they are actually trying to create a new breed. Why this is infact a major and welcomed development from anyone that is honest enough, it is also a disaster waiting to happen from the ones filled with dishonesty who are

...solely in this field for profit and profit only.

Creating a breed is no child's play as it takes several years which in fact is closed to approximately 20 to 30 years before a breed can be said to be created, developed and perfected.

After perfection comes recognition and registration from the separate breed clubs and the FCI.

But we can boldly tell you nobody in Nigeria is actually ready to face the challenges and then especially the patience that comes with this process.

A case study of the German Shepherd Dog....In the 1890s, Max von Stephanitz was primarily interested in improving the German shepherding dogs because they were local and were the working dogs of his time. Stephanitz enjoyed attending dog shows and observed that there were many...

different types of shepherding dogs in use in Germany but there was no breed standardisation.

He greatly admired those dogs with a wolf-like appearance and prick ears who also were intelligent, had sharp senses and willingness to work and believed that he could create a better..

...working dog that could then be used throughout Germany.

Max Von Staphanitz had a special goal which was to create a working dog. He knew the specifications he needed to achieve this and he went after specific traits which were dogs:

a wolf-like appearance and prick ears,
who also were intelligent, had sharp senses
and willingness to work.

He didn't just wake up one day to breed a mastiff to a hound, to breed a Lhasa to a Doberman because he knew what he wanted.

Now in this present age, only few people are ready to achieve this long term goal in the canine world and we are so sure non exist in this part of the world and that's because majority are after the money and this has created a whole lot of adulterated dogs in the canine...

...community.

Max bought his first dog named Hektor Linksrhein in 1899 and changed his name to Horand von Grafrath. Horand was used as the primary breeding stud by Stephanitz and other breeders and is the foundation of the German Shepherd breed as we know it.

The English Kennel Club honoured the breed with it's own register in 1919 which is exactly 20 years after Horand was gotten.

During those years, Max culled some dogs as a result of unbalanced temperament, he removed some who were not showing willingness to work which is the...

...major reason he was trying to develop that special breed, Max never sold any of these dogs to innocent people but he only gave them to breeders who were aligned with his goal and also retained a lot of them because he needed to keep records of the gene pool.

There were dogs that were shot and killed because they became a monster and they were not going to fit in, they won't tell us that but we are very sure that happened.

But in this part of the world someone wakes up one day and breeds a German Shepherd to a Lhasa, they breed a..

Caucasian to a Rottweiler and sell off all the offspring into new homes without retaining any. That is a disaster waiting to happen especially for first time dog owners. They sell these dogs without considering the difficulty in predicting the temperament of these dogs,...

....they sell of the puppies without considering the possibility of congenital health issues.

You ask them what they are trying to achieve with such result and they come up with the flimsy excuse that all dogs were created as a result of cross breeding. While this might be...

...true in some cases, we can as well say it is still a lie because only few dogs were created from cross breeding and some of them have not been recognized fully as a breed.

It might come as a surprise to some people that with the popularity of the Boerboel breed, it has not yet been recognized by the FCI and even not recognized by some Kennel Clubs in the world.

So basically we do not support cross breeding because:

1. Each and every breed has it's own purpose. The sole reason why a German Shepherd was bred is different from why an American Pitbull Terrier was bred. It doesn't make any sense cross breeding a working dog to a game dog...

...which was solely bred for dog fighting. What do you expect from the offspring?

2. Destruction of bloodlines.

Since a German Shepherd is known to be a working dog, breeders do everything in their power to breed and uphold that standard so the bloodline of working dogs can be

...preserved, same goes for the Norman bloodline of the APBT which is generally preserved as a game dog. Once you breed these two together, both bloodline gets destroyed automatically because an irresponsible breeder has just shattered the works of several breeders from years..

back from a single breeding. That means they have to start all over again.

3. Congenital health issues.
Many congenital health issues, such as hip dysplasia, eye diseases, epilepsy and kidney disease, are found across multiple breeds. This means these conditions are still....

likely to show up in crossbred puppies if both parents are carriers of one or more of the same genetic problems.

If you are going to be a BREEDER, please be a responsible one and not a MILLER. At the same time make sure you do not turn blind eyes to errors in your breeding...

....programme. We call that Kennel Blindness.

Thank you for reading.

Apologies for any typo made, this thread was made in a hurry.