Oh I read everything loud and clear. When you mention breeders as such, "breeders" like myself can be lumped into the same basket and take great offence at your post.
The crossbreds that come in for grooming arent breeding dogs, they are desexed (thankfully), I think in 10 yrs I have only had a few maltese shih tzu crosses come here that the ppl were breeding from. The underbites they produced were horrific, the patellas were graded 4 (extremely bad) The temperaments were shy to fear aggressive. I warned these ppl not to do it but they did. The poor bitch also gave birth in the backyard, thus having pups all over the place. First litter was 6, 4 survived. Second litter 6 and 5 survived. 3rd litter only one survived. Bastards done back to back to back matings.
As for my breed and many others, yes they were the result of crossbreedings. And yes it took many generations to get to the perfection that they were looking for. But we all know, no breed or x breed are perfect, I would love to see a dog on earth that is perfect. Not possible. There are dogs with faults, bad traits, genetic issues and regardless how anyone thinks they can possibly breed these imperfections out are kidding themselves. I have always said if it was there in the past it just waiting to rear its ugly head again. Does this mean the breeder is at fault cause it will arise, no!!! Unless ppl are going to start being honest and there is documents on each and every dog in the world you wont know what you are breeding and who you are breeding it to. Just because things can be 30 generations away, does not mean it wont come back.
Science is also not perfect. My friend bought a dog from the states, he was tested to only ever be able to breed black and white. He mostly did, then one brown come. My friend rang her friend in the states and hello, 32 gererations ago her first foundation bitch was a brown. So even tests really arent a guarantee of what you will or wont get, and if bad genetics will crop up again. All we can do is our best but unfortunately the crystal ball will not work.
Personally I would love the see a human that is a better example than the dogs that we breed. I find more faults in humans than dogs
On that note, I must go to bed, its 12.30am here and I havnt had much shut eye in a week.
