Sled dog breeding

[SternRose]

Alaskan husky or Alaskan malumute

 

[SternRose]

Is it yours?

 

[Starfire669]

Alaskan husky or Alaskan malumute

No, to both. Alaskan Malamutes do not come in brown and neither do Siberian huskies. She is a puppy mill Siberian Husky. She is a classic example of horrible inbreeding done by inexperienced and uncaring breeders. Her sire and dam were on site (her breeder had 16 adult Siberians and 4 puppies) and both appeared to be purebred, she herself has AKC paperwork. But it is possible she is not pure bred. Her nose is too long, ears too big, her legs are way to long and thin, her tail does not curve over her back in a sickle like a Sibes should, and as I said she is brown. Siberians come in shades of red, black, white, or can be agouti or wild coloring like a wolf. But agouti Siberians have 3 very distinctive bands of color on a single strand of hair, which Cheyenne does not have.

So now I have another question. I have listed Cheyenne's faults and her background. She is AKC registered. Would you breed her?

 

[SternRose]

Sib was my next guess

 

[SternRose]

No I would not breed her.

 

[SternRose]

If you had a proper stud for her yes but that's going to take at least 3breedings to fix it, but it's possible.

 

[dainerra]

I'm not sure of the color inheritence in Sibs but everything else can be chalked up to generations of poor breeding practices.

In GSDs there is a sudden surgence of brindle GSDs. Yes, there were brindles in the dogs used to form the breed but brindle is a dominant color. It was very easy to breed out by simply not breeding a brindle dog. There haven't been brindles in GSDs in 100 years. Suddenly, they are all over the place. "Old Fashioned" and "It's just an original color re-emerging" and a ton of other excuses.

Personally, I'm looking at the fact that there are suddenly brindle GSDs and comparing the timing to the increase in popularity of Dutch Shepherds. Dutch Shepherds are brindle and the average Joe thinks that every long nose pointy eared dog is a German Shepherd.

 

[SternRose]

I love GSDs!!!!

 

[dainerra]

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but why would you bother? there isn't a shortage of good quality females. There is no reason to use anything but the dogs closest to perfect. The fact that you would even think of a way that she could be used speaks volumes. And it takes a LOT more than 3 generations to get rid of bad breeding. There are mistakes in the GSD breed that people have been trying for 20+ years to get rid of.

 

[dainerra]

The idea of breeding isn't simply to improve what you've got. You need to start with a proper example of the breed and then make it better. Not take whatever dog is in front of you and try to breed it into something better.