When is a mutt not a mutt?

The AKC and other national equivalents have very specific protocols on how mutts become breeds.

Our new(er) rescue girl is a Papitzu. Papitzu are on the designer dog registry , but aren't AKC/CKC etc acknowledged yet. Maybe they will be one day.

I've no idea re your question but what a beautiful dog. Woof!

A Mutt is a Mongrel over here in the UK. In France it is often referred to as a Poubelle Royale (a royal dustbin/garbage bin).

As far as I am aware, a recognised breed is one which remains pretty true to the 'engineered' type, generation after generation.
And, as far as I am aware, the Greyhound is the only type of domesticated dog that has not been engineered by humans.
According to a study my son read when he was writing a thing on genetics, the greyhound has always been the greyhound as we know it, and was domesticated as such.
It is now found in many breeds of dog, purely because of the 'speed' element which it brings to the mix.
A greyhound/mastiff mix became the Great Dane, for instance. Power and speed.


For Golden Retriever, read here:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2391957/101-dalmatians-Theyve-got-222-golden-retrievers-gather-outside-Highland-house-originate.html


It would seem that your 'Mutt' is either a coincidental accident, or is indeed a Chinook. If you know the parent dog or dogs and they were something else, then it points to coincidental.



Nice looking dog, btw.

Chinooks.

My neighborhood is full of designer dogs that end in the suffix -oodle!

I'm a mutt lover. When people ask me what my dogs are I say "good ones".

I guess I'll have to read up on breeding protocols. It just seems strange to me that certain mixes get noticed and noted.

I'm guessing a Papitzu is a Papillon and Shish Tzu mix? How adorable must s/he be!!

Bella is a tiny rock star - looks like a miniature Cavalier King Charles Spaniel - with an underbite (which is true to errrr breed).

Set tells people that our dogs are purebred affection hounds

Over here, we have Cockerpoo, Sprocker spaniel and Labradoodle all being considered for 'breed' status. I think the Labradoodle may have got it by now. It was Bred originally for guide dog use for blind people who had fur allergy.

The Sprocker (springer/cocker) is one being developed by the Police as a specialised sniffer dog at the moment, as one brings an exceptionally keen nose and the other a non stop work mentality.

Story:
http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/latest-news/news.aspx?id=1725


The cockerpoo (cocker/poodle) is usually just a cute ball of fluff that belts around everywhere, making everyone laugh.

How To Build a Dog......


http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/02/build-a-dog/ratliff-text

Snippet:
"Scientists have found the secret recipe behind the spectacular variety of dog shapes and sizes, and it could help unravel the complexity of human genetic disease......"

I have posted this too often but really ... she's cute



and truly joyful



and a good snuggler with our very old boy (who hasn't been able to get up on that sofa for months now )

She's a beauty!

If you ever find a male dog with markings like that, will you promise to call it Bandit?

Ha! If i had had the naming of Bella, that's just exactly what i would have called her, and have said so for the slightly more than a year that we've had her.

Yep, it's all about "breeding true" for whatever the specified # of generations is.

Clearly I was born into the wrong life. I should have been a posh English lass who, when I said I had 122 dogs people just responded with "How lovely, dear."

Just look at all those darlings! I want a sprocker NOW!

What a gorgeous pup, ehBeth!

And that young one is cute too.

You have to be pretty fit to be a posh English lass, Boom, as they get you doing things like....oh, I don't know, being hunted down by a pack of 31 bloodhounds?


YIKES!

I think I'll be the posh lass on horseback!

There was a great article in Esquire a month or so ago about mutts: http://www.esquire.com/features/american-dog-0814

accoring to the defintion of some source it cesaes to be a mutt as soon as you define the orgins of the biological entinty