#related to purebred dogs

[wandering-wolf23]

I will say that I think ethical breeding as veered from "we should produce healthy, sound, stable animals from parents who are healthy, sound, and stable" to "anything not a purebred is inherently unethical and should not exist". I'm not sure how much of it is online virtue signaling, but enough of it is to make me roll my eyes.

Come on, y'all. I'm sure my health testing working mix is sooo much more unethical than your byb purebred Frenchie.

#dispatches #original content? on this blog? #discourse related #kiri rambles #kiri talks dogs #the last sentence is based on an actual facebook take #there is nothing wrong with a purebred #there is nothing wrong with a mixed breed #THE AIM SHOULD BE PRODUCING HEALTHY DOGS NOT PURITY POINTS #you will not convince me that a purebred Frenchie is better than my working herder sorry #ethical breeding #stop the virtue signaling

[darkwood-sleddog]

Always very amusing to me to see what other people consider responsible breeding of functional working dogs.

Idk about you guys but I would not laud a Siberian breeder that doesn’t health test and has upward of 8+ litters every spring a “working breeder”.

#dogblr #working dogs #Siberian husky #ural hill sled dogs my beloathed #puppy mill operating under the working sled dog marketing so fun #anyways no titles either #and it’s so obvious looking at the dogs he continually pups out that they’re pet bred #not a single working and by working I mean actually working #Siberian I know looks like those dogs #scary thing is that these dogs are their owners of so entrenched in the area #and the guy breeds awful temperaments on his malamutes too. #health testing is the bare minimum yall. #and yes some working sled dog people #probably don’t do health testing #but they should be bc if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years #it’s that Alaskans are pretty related as a population #and they are succeeptable to genetic disease in the same way purebred dogs are

[canisalbus]

You’ve most likely answered this before but what breed exactly is Machete? I’ve been trying to figure it out for a while I’ve thought maybe a saluki but the ears arnt right.

In theory his breed is fictional Podenco Siciliano, but he's not a purebred example. Out of existing dog breeds he looks closest to (and is related to) Ibizan Hound.

But sometimes I see Silken Windhounds that also kind of remind me of him. They just don't have the characteristic bat ears.

#I usually just default to calling him a sighthound #I feel like that tells you enough about what kind of dog he is without going off on needlessly convoluted breed tangents #answered #anonymous #Machete #Vaschete lore #I don't own any of these photos I'm just showing them as demonstration #specific breeds and breed names aren't a thing in-universe #I don't think they call each other labradors and poodles and schnauzers even if that's what they look like to us #different dog types emerge as result of natural variation and certain characteristics become family traits #but in practice everyone is mixed #I'm just assigning some of them more or less fitting real world breeds for convenience's sake #it's just such a quick and easy way to describe the look of any given dog

[blogforfauna]

Canis dingo, or maybe Canis lupus dingo, or maybe Canis familiaris dingo

Some researchers think dingoes are an ancient breed of domesticated dogs brought to Australia around 4,000 years ago by Asian seafarers. Others think they are a distinct species closely related to grey wolves and domestic dogs, similar to coyotes and jackals.

Either way, dingoes are very closely related to wolves and domestic dogs and are able to interbreed with them. Most dingoes in Australia now are mixed with many different dog breeds. One of these dingo-dog hybrids is the Australian cattle dog, which is a pretty popular dog breed used for herding cattle.

Dingoes are found in every state of Australia except for Tasmania. The dingo’s relative, the New Guinea singing dog, is also found in the mountains of New Guinea. Named for their unique yodeling howls, singing dogs are one of the most endangered canines in the world. They were believed to be extinct in the wild until a small population was found two years ago.

Those that live in the high Alpine habitats of southeast Australia are known as Alpine dingoes. They are often lighter in color and grow thicker coats than those that live in desert or forest habitats. Desert dingoes that live in northern Australia are the typical bright orange color. They are larger than other dingoes, generally weighing around 40 pounds (18 kg) with some reaching over 50 pounds (22.7 kg). There are dingoes that live in forests and have dark tan or black fur, but they are most likely not purebred.

Fraser Island off the east coast of Australia is home to around 200 dingoes. With no pet dogs on the Island, they are purebred. Fraser Island and Alpine dingoes are possibly the last populations that are not mixed with domestic dogs.

Often living in packs of up to 12 individuals, dingoes are very social. The dominant male and female of these packs are the parents of all the others. They rarely bark to communicate with each other, instead using a variety of howls.

In areas with small prey like hares, rodents, and reptiles, dingoes generally hunt alone. They still might live in packs, but they only rest and play with each other. In areas with larger prey like kangaroos and sheep, they hunt as a pack. Their tendency to hunt sheep causes farmers to target them, so the dingo population is classified by some as vulnerable but by others as endangered due to poisoning, trapping, and shooting.

Dingoes hunt by ganging up on larger prey with multiple pack members or by scaring small prey out of thickets and then pouncing. They are very flexible so they can follow prey into tight spaces. Like a cat, if a dingo’s head can fit through something, its whole body can.

Wandi ^

I would also like to mention Wandi, who is a very good dingo. He was dropped by an eagle into a backyard when he was 5 weeks old. It was discovered soon after that he was a rare alpine dingo, so he went to live at the Dingo Discovery Sanctuary and Research Centre. He’s helping protect the species and he even has his own Instagram account.

I rate the dingo 17/10. A very Australian animal

Photo credits:

(1) Jamie Lamb (2) Michelle J Photography (3) Michael Hains (4) Christopher Hopkins (5) tanyahattingh

#dingo #wild dog #Australia #animals #biology #nature #science #wildlife #zoology #animal #dog #dogs #wild #dingoes #wild dogs #canines #canids #canine #wolf #wolves

[hyzenthlayroseart]

So I was thinking back on this upload ( ) and thinking about how in a past upload I mentioned how Georgette was left un-spayed by Jenny's parents because they wanted to eventually breed her to another purebred show dog, but this lead to her being impregnated by Tito and having mixed-breed puppies who all eventually went to good homes.

Well I thought once all those puppies were sold Jenny's parents decided to move onto their original plan and found a stud dog to breed Georgette to (just to clarify, he isn't a "love interest" for her, he just came to breed her then went back home. Just how it is with breeding animals), and she gave birth to five purebred puppies who all went on to be show dogs (except for Buttercup but we'll get to her later).

Bianca, Bijou, Beverly and Gabriel each went to fellow dog breeders in Jenny's parent's friend circle and all went on to be champions. Their personalities are all vain and obsessed with perfection like their mother, and feel ashamed that they have "mongrel" half-siblings and try to hide that fact from everyone (something Georgette disapproves of them doing since of course she loves her first litter).

Also like I mentioned in the upload I linked, Georgina and Gia from the first litter are show dogs in mixed-breed dog shows and are frequent champions in them, but even then their four half-siblings refuse to admit to anyone that their related to "mongrels", although there have been cases where gossip spread around the show dog world and lead to other snooty, classist show dogs discovering that Georgette's purebred children have mongrel half-siblings and bullying them for it, leading to more resentment.

Also each sibling from this litter have met their half-siblings at some point, wether it be from their wealthy owner's friend circle gathering for get-togethers which included Georgina and Gia, along with the parents of Jenny's friend who owns Chico, and on one occasion when Bianca, Bijou, Beverly and Gabriel's respective owners took them for a walk they ended up encountering Fagin's dogs including Tito and Gigi, which lead to them being even more disgusted that a half-sibling of theirs willingly chose to live the life of a filthy street dog.

Now onto Buttercup. Unlike her littermates, she was born a sickly runt with wonky legs, clearly meaning she wasn't meant to be a show dog. Nonetheless, her mother still loves her as much as her other children, and unlike her vain and aloof siblings, Buttercup is extremely friendly and playful and kind to everyone. She loves her littermates, but to her sadness they look down on her for being imperfect. When her littermates were old enough to be sold to wealthy owners as pups, Georgette was worried that Buttercup would be ignored, but thankfully Chico's owners ended up buying her, so now she lives with her older half-brother who she loves dearly and who loves her back (she's also met her other half-siblings along with Tito and the rest of Fagin's dogs and loves them all too).

Georgette loves all her children, but hates how four of her children have such despicable attitudes when it comes to her first litter (yes I know Georgette is also a vain, selfish dog but I like to think having her first litter be mixed-breed dogs humbled her a bit, or at least left her feeling protective of them being criticized for their pedigree). Of course she's also proud of them for being champions like she is and will always love them, even if she hates their attitudes. Also even though Buttercup was born imperfect and unfit to be a show dog, Georgette also loves her dearly.

#fan art #disney #oliver and company #georgette #beauregard #bianca #bijou #beverly #gabriel #buttercup

[eqan]

waittttttt there are 0 studies that conclude that specific breeds are “more dangerous” than others yet i still see dogblr pushing the “pitbulls are inherently aggressive” agenda. actually, most peer-reviewed research concludes that factors that lead to dog bites have to do with poor ownership and NOT breed. inchresting:

here!

this one is specifically interesting as it concludes that people call dogs pitbulls when they don’t have any of that dna LMAO so bites are unfairly attributed to the breed in a high percentage of cases

this one found no significant difference in aggression between the golden retriever control group and 415 “restricted” dog breeds. hm

another study that concludes aggression is more often linked to a dog’s experience and environment!

it’s almost like uuuhhhh the science doesn’t back pitbull related breed restrictions or the “pitbulls are inherently more aggressive” take & “nature v nurture” is just as valid in dogs as in humans.

as someone who grew up with a pibble (purebred 100% american pitbull terrier) i get real defensive when dogblr comes for pits. the # of bites could have nothing to do with the breed itself and (as the studies conclude above) everything to do with poor ownership of that breed. it’s almost like uuuuhhh it’s how you raise them sometimes (:

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[nyaagolor]

Hello, this is a really cool blog you mods are running. I wanted to ask this question; do you have any headcanons involving the dog people of Paldea. Arven is 900% a dog person and already got a few headcanons revolving his Mabosstiff, but if possible, could you provide a couple headcanons involving the other dog people and their dog pokemon (which include Nemona - Lycanroc , Ryme - Houndstone, Tyme - Lycanrocs, Clavell -Houndoom, Giacomo - Mabosstiff, Mela - Arcanine & Houndoom, Ortega - Dachsbun, Eri - Lucario, etc.) Sorry for the long post and thanks if you answer!

Under the cut bc it got long

Slight disclaimer I didn't include Eri and Lucario bc that's a jackal-man idk how to mentally handle a Lucario acting like a dog. That's a person. Featherless biped

Nemona: - She caught Lycanroc as part of her new team. Lycanroc hits hard and fast and mostly acts as her hazard setter or revenge killer. Bitches love stealth rocks - Off the field, they often exercise together! Lycanroc LOVES to run. Nemona has a chronic illness and can't jog, but she does bike or ride a Cyclizar while Lycanroc runs alongside her. They love to race around Mesagoza together - They have the same personality

Ryme: - She is the biggest dog person in Paldea, she loved her puppy so much she rapped it back to life. No one is doing it like her really and truly. When she raps about love? She's talking about the dog - She hosts an adoption fair in Montenevera every year. It's a musical festival centered around getting strays adopted and it's had RESOUNDING success so far - Ryme's semi supernatural powers are actually related to her Houndstone-- she spent so much time along it and all the other soul draining ghost types that she built a resistance to their effects. Now she can (and does) play with entire packs of ghost puppies! And sneak them too many treats

Tyme: - All her pokemon are named after numerical prefixes (kilo, giga, nano, etc). Her Midnight and Midday Lycanroc are named Deca and Deci respectively - She spoils her puppies rotten just like her sister, always sneaking them table scraps and letting them run around in the schoolyard while she's teaching classes - Deca and Deci are bargaining chips to get kids to come to extra help. Who doesn't want to snuggle with two cute dogs while you go over math problems?

Clavell: - When he was a teenager, he used to work for the Pokemon Daycare. (I saw a whole hc where he was a delinquent and got sent to the daycare as part of detention and honestly? Canon in my heart). He found his Houndoom there as a Houndour-- it had been abandoned and adopting it taught Clavell a lot about nurturing others. It's what inspired him to eventually be a school director! - Clavell and his Houndoom are always locked in a constant battle, since Clavell likes to garden and Houndoom likes to dig. For the record, Houndoom is winning - Clavell no longer has his pompadour, seeing as Houndoom took matters into his own paws and lit the wig on fire

Giacomo: - He taught his Mabosstiff, Beethoven, to DJ. He's not good at it by virtue of being a dog but the gimmick is very funny - Beethoven has a tendency to nod its head back and forth, so during concerts, Giacomo will get him little earplugs, a hat, and some shades so he can jam with the crowd. Plus he likes the vibes of the raves - He's the vaccuum cleaner for all the crumbs or snacks Giacomo happens to leave lying about. It's a win-win

Mela: - All her puppies are from the academy itself. She just happens to bond well with those pokemon and uses them on her team despite them not technically belonging to her - The Pokemon world has an ultimate frisbee esque game that involves running with your partner pokemon-- Mela and the dogs are the academy champs. They're unbeatable - Don't tell anyone, but Mela really likes styling their fur

Ortega: - That dog is a purebred (purebread?) and definitely cost like 10k. This dog is worth more than most people's kidneys - Daschbun is a total brat and has very specific diet requests. He can, will, and does pick the carrots out of his food mix and spit them out. God forbid Ortega tries to give him dry food? Oh there is hell to pay - Both Ortega and Daschbun are drama queens. Daschbun is a lapdog and knows it and will sit there haughtily. They're having too much fun

#pokemon sv #nemona #ryme #tyme #clavell #giacomo #mela #ortega #headcanons #ask #mod vex

[darkwood-sleddog]

What is your most disagreement take within the dog community? Not to start anything, but honestly curious as I'm wondering what you think needs to be addressed more within the community; like breed discrimination, or certain breeds having bad traits, or people having not so good ideas on what certain breeds should be.

1.) the dog community is huge so there’s not going to be a single opinion I can have that is is wide disagreement with it as a whole as it is too diverse for this to occur, however these are all my ~unpopular~ dog opinions:

I think the way that the AKC registers and titles dogs for conformation needs major reform. I think saying conformation is a “sport” as a majority of people here in North America do is harmful and breeds a competitive spirit in breeders/owners/and handlers as well as an unnecessary amount of physical uniformity within dog breeds.

What I would like to see (and what would never happen):

-graded conformation. (Meets standard Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor as an example). Get rid of the current point system.

-dogs must pass breed appropriate health testing and temperament testing to be championed or graded excellent and good examples of breed). For working breeds this in my opinion should include a working test of some kind.

- do not allow professional handlers.

-only register puppies of health tested parents.

- allow intact mixed bred dogs to compete in sporting, trick, companion test events and generally stop the villainizing of breeding mixed breed dogs when said breeding is done appropriately.

Not AKC related I think that in North America more shelters need to not be so strictly no kill (this opinion may be controversial amongst some dog folk but idc). There are dogs that are not temperamentally okay to live, such as those posing a legitimate danger to people and the general public, and letting them go painlessly is better than them languishing in the shelter system for years. The funds used to keep these dogs could be better served helping dogs that can actually be homes safely and/or helping struggling community members so their dogs do not have to enter the shelter system.

-FUND LOW COST VETERINARY CARE

-stop continuing to push laws and local legislation that seeks to restrict how people contain their dogs outside. Instead focus on reaching out to struggling community members in a positive way and respond to ethics concern with care for both the dogs and people involved. Funding low cost alternative containment/helping generally better containment and welfare of animals is imo better than legislating away the problem.

in a dog breed sense: stop woobifying dog breeds with the potential for aggression both towards dogs and people. Playing down a breed or dog type’s potential for dog or human aggression is not only dangerous but does a huge disservice to these breeds.

In a dog breeding sense: I think that those looking to better legitimize several popular companion breed mixes are doing good work but ultimately if they can’t drop the designer name and/or rally their communities instead of dividing into a bunch of little groups they are unlikely to succeed as they are then falling into some of the same traps as some purebred breeds. They have an opportunity to do better without hard baking those divisions into their communities.

-Stop naming dog breeds after indigenous racial slurs. Stop naming non indigenous dog breeds after indigenous groups.

-Companionship is a purpose.

-many dogs bred for sport are not fit temperamentally for their original purpose.

-“hated” dog breed mixed such as doodles and wolfdogs are NOT going away and are already being bred in large numbers (doodles way more obviously). Any attempts by the dog fancy or ethics groups to legislate these out of existence is pointless and will fail. Instead try and nudge these communities towards better breeding ethics and customer education. Uplift the breeders in these communities doing good work for health and temperament testing.

-people really need to stop adding Merle into every goddamn dog mix. It takes a lot of knowledge to breed Merle carefully. Some Merle variants in established purebreed dogs need serious examination from an ethical standpoint.

-crates are fine but like many other tools are very often over used to the point of cruelty. I usually find them unnecessary past puppyhood for well adjusted adult dogs.

-stop expecting everybody else to love your dog just because YOU love your dog. Your dog’s freedoms should not come at the expense of the general public’s ability to walk, bike, exist safely within public spaces.

#dogblr #faq #darkwood OPINIONS on this day

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[bones-n-bookles]

Torch is out of Flint and Ember, both owned by @losech 💕 these pedigree sheets were both made by her as well!

Each dog up to Flint and Ember's grandparents will have their own tags, and all will be tagged "Torch fam" :) Dogs not directly behind but still related (aunts, siblings, cousins, further back in the pedigree like Great x5 grandparents, etc) will also be under that tag going forward.

Ancestors further back than Flint or Ember's grandparents will be tagged with what grandparent they're behind as well. For example, Berkut's father, grandfather, and further behind him, will be tagged "Berkut fam" "Torch fam"! Some dogs are popular studs or dams so are behind multiple dogs but such is purebred dogs lol, i may or may not bother putting them as "Berkut fam" "Dungar fam" "Shnyrka fam" depending on how i feel lol

#Torch fam #Flint #Ember #Kilbe #Sonny #Berkut #Maya #Radar #Missy #Pavlik #Dinah #Grizz #Mansi #Dungar #Shnyrka #west siberian laika #laika #hunting dog

[healingheartdogs]

How many purebred breed clubs do you know of that require any level, even minimal, of health testing to be a member? Not strongly recommend it, but require it. It's definitely not the majority of clubs, right. None of the AKC recognized clubs for any purebred breed I've worked with require anything health testing related for gaining and keeping membership. Sure, many recommend it and hold up breeders who do as examples and say it's important and that breeders need to be doing it (although some don't even do that -- looking at you hound group), but they still allow members who don't do it or stop doing it to keep their membership status and they don't do verification of the claimed health testing of their member breeders beyond their initial membership sponsoring and screening process (if they even do it then.) It's more common to see requirements for the number of championship conformation titles obtained by dogs from your kennel than proof of health testing on breeding individuals in your kennel for club membership in purebred breeds.

The Goldendoodle Association of North America has at least minimal required health testing though alongside their more thorough suggested level of testing, with penalties for being unable to produce the required testing or claimed testing of any dog listed with a breeder's program when prompted. Just something I think about whenever doodle discourse comes across my dash and people hold up negative examples of doodle breeding to justify saying all doodle breeding is irresponsible or that they can't find any good examples when they look for them.

Maybe they can't find them because they moved the goalpost for them into a different field from the "responsible" purebred breeders.

[doberbutts]

Afaik we don’t have any real wolfdogs here in Australia, but a fb acquaintance has been bragging about her new Lyksos (?) puppy. Apparently it’s a brand new breed here and they’re “dogs in wolfsuits”. From what I could see on their website, the dogs are mostly malamute X German shepherd. The breeder claims the dogs are all fully health and genetic tested, but the facial structure of the dogs make me think of those white tigers with Downs Syndrome (I don’t think that’s what it is but I can’t remember properly right now). Just needed to share cos I don’t understand the obsession with wanting to own a wolf…

I do find it hard to believe that these two different dogs aren't [very] low contents. This is off the website of one of the Lykos breeders listed on the official Lykos website. I went looking for the exact breed mix and once again found a lot of coy "oh you know, gsd, husky, and related breeds..." wording but no actual list. I'm wondering if this is similar to the Tamaskan/Utonagan/Northern Inuit situation, where Sarloos Wolfhound or Czech Wolfdog was used and they are technically [very] low contents as a result. Or if they used those aforementioned wolfalikes, which vary by line but do have some low content wolfdog mixed in there, and again thus have created more [very] low content wolfdogs.

Does Australia allow the import of the four recognized purebred wolfdog breeds, or those wolfalikes I mentioned? If so, then I think I've figured it out.

I'm not really seeing anything that looks like the super inbred white tigers. A lot of photoshop on the eyes though.

[gnosk]

This is the dumbest pet peeve (pun intended) but I HATE when people are talking about a colorpoint cat and speculate that it's a "Siamese mix." That's not how cat breeds work! Just because the Siamese breed is the most famous instance of colorpoint cats in pop culture does not mean that every random colorpoint domestic shorthair is somehow related to the breed. The genes for the colorpoint coat pattern (temperature-sensitive albinism, related to leucism) exist in domestic cats normally, it's not a breed-specific mutation like Sphinx hairlessness. 90+% of colorpoint cats are gonna be randombreds with no purebred heritage at all (not to mention that cat purebreeds don't work like dog purebreeds but that's a whole OTHER thing). Just call them colorpoints, don't call them Siameses or god forbid "Siamese mixes" if they're not actually, those things are not the same!!

#I was autistic about this in middle school so now I care way too much about it forever