Question: If a crossbreed dog breed with another crossbreed dog would you have 4 way cross breed dog?
Keywords: breed, crossbreed, dog
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that would look unique and cool?
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What about if you had this dog and crossed it with another 4 way dog would the litter be a 8 breed litter?
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I think that might be a ‘designer dog’! By that level of breed dilution, most people stop keeping track fo the breed or just describe the dog by the most obvious one (e.g. a kelpie x or a labrador x) – but yes, if you kept track of it on paper (a pedigree) you would certainly have a dog representing 8 breeds of dogs.
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Cool are there any of these types of dogs in the world like that?
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baileymymie8
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@baileymymie8: Let’s make this clearer with an example, shall we?
If we bred two known first generation cross breed dogs (in genetics, we’d call these two separate F1 cross dogs – let’s call them F1a and F1b), for the purpose of this example, a Labrador x Golden Retriever and a Kelpie x Whippet, we would end up with (second generation: F2) puppies who contained genetic material from Labs/GRs/Kelpies/Whippets. Different puppies in this litter might display different traits in various strengths. By this, I mean that some might display more of the Lab/GR traits (either physical, behavioural, or both) and others might seem to have more Kelpie/Whippet. This is because genes can be mixed and represented in many different ways.
It gets even more interesting with dogs as you can have a litter of pups sired (fathered) by more than one dog (!) – so if the female mates with more than one male dog, it’s possible that sperm from both male dogs will fertilise different eggs and her litter will have two (or more!) dads.
To give you a shorter answer after all that: Yes, you’d end up with pups representing 4 different breeds, but in the real world, we’d probably stop tracking and referring to those breeds and just call the dog a mixed or cross breed dog.
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