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Нашел хорошую, (на мой взгляд), статью о тех, кто пытается разводить собак и как вариант, пытается скрещивать разные породы. В общем-то, я много слышал о породах типа Labradoodle (лабрадор и пудель). Знаю, что были попытки скрещивания Golden Retriever и пуделей (Goldendoodle).

Хорошо это или плохо? Ведь проблема еще и в том, что у тех, кто занимается подобными скрещиваниями, основным мотивом является прибыль. За “новую” породу запрашиваются немалые деньги. А результат, иногда, совсем не тот, который ожидается от подобных “кровосмешений” В общем, статья об этом. Всю ее я приводить не буду, только отрывок.

Poodle crosses, more commonly known as “doodles”, have been around since the first cocker-poo litter made its way into the local newspaper. And not all crosses involve Poodles either. Enter the “puggle”, a Pug and Beagle mix that were all the rage back around 2004.

But why make these crosses? People have either deliberately or accidentally cross-bred various combinations for years, but in the past, had the decency not to advertise them for large sums of money. Today, these are star attractions in the daily classifieds, and are being fraudulently touted as “purebred”, with “registration papers” to boot.

The sales pitch is clear; you can get the best of two or more breeds by crossing them to make a hybrid that will most certainly be healthier and more intelligent than any of the contributors. Such dogs are touted as strange, exotic, quite rare, and are worth a small fortune. That is, if you subscribe to the concept that being “rare” always equates to high value. The truth is that while the Hope diamond is both singularly unique and incalculably expensive, the Ford Pinto is also rare, but you would be hard pressed to find anyone to pay anything for one of them.

Just because something is hard to come by, doesn’t mean it has great value. This is all the more true when dealing with cross-bred dogs. Back to the Pinto analogy, crossing your Ford with a Chevy Vega isn’t likely going to give you the equivalent of a Jaguar. In fact, it is more apt to create a monstrosity that won’t drive well and is chocked full of all sorts of problems.

Of course, the doodlers will tell you about the many virtues that magically appear in their mixes. They’re all disease-free because they are not bred back on any recent ancestors. You can certainly get your Golden Retriever with a hypoallergenic coat derived from that curly mane grown on Poodles. And why not have a Beagle with a pushed-in face? It makes them look so adorable, doesn’t it?

The truth is, these dogs rarely turn out to be what their breeders promise. Granted, there are sweet and healthy puppies in about any litter. But the claim that all pups from such crosses are going to grow up more strong and fit than their purebred ancestors just isn’t so. For example, there is a family in Cincinnati Ohio who paid $1,800 each for two “goldenoodles”, a Golden Retriever and Standard Poodle mix. They were promised these wonderful designer hybrids would make great family pets and live out the next fifteen years with their owners in gleeful and hypo-allergenic trouble-free bliss. Both dogs were dead before age three.

While the dogs did have nice personalities, they didn’t live up to the promised sales pitch. Both dogs had a very harsh coat, inherited from the Golden side, but they lacked the necessary undercoat to keep them warm, because of the influence from the Poodle side. And so, all of the necessary insulation bred into both breeds over centuries was lost in the cross. Throw in that both of these boys were not hypo-allergenic and both were eventually euthanized due to severe epilepsy. In fact, by the experience of one Cincinnati area groomer, of the six doodles she grooms, only one is epilepsy free.

Полностью — здесь.

Кстати, эта статья с сайта того самого человека, у которого родилась Йипа. Как я понимаю, это глава из книги.