Did You Know Cross Breed Dogs Have Better Immune Systems than Pedigree?
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For some reason cross breed dogs are less prone to disease than pedigree dogs
They're often bred for the desired traits of each parent breed, and are generally considered to be healthier than pedigrees due to their diverse gene pool. Popular crossbreed dogs include the Cockapoo, Puggle and Labradoodle.
My dog is a yorkiepoo and never seems to get sick even after the vets injections for rabies etc
Yet a friends poodle was very ill yesterday after his injection and had to be taken back to the vet for treatment
How are your dogs regarding this and do you find the same happening ?
Yes I've known this for a long time, pedigree dogs and cats are often bred with fairly close relatives with the same physical characteristics to keep them looking the same. Heinz 57 type animals that have bred with more diverse animals mix up their genetics more and nature tends to favour the genetic traits that are most established in each animal to create the best genetic combination. As has been pointed out before if you buy pet insurance often people with non pedigree animals are subsidising those with pedigree animals which tend to have more health problems because often the premiums are the same.
BonzoBanana Thanks for that B, i didn't know about the insurance
I suppose its like buying a ferrari compared to a vauxhall, the ferrari is always more expensive to insure
telmel Your example is what I would call fair insurance, a Ferrari is far less reliable than a Vauxhall and even has a dangerous tendency to self-ignite. In your example a person with a Ferrari would pay far more than a Vauxhall owner but for pets often its a set charge per month and a pedigree animal will visit the vet far more often with more issues so it would be like the Vauxhall owner paying the same insurance as the Ferrari owner which would be very unfair. When you consider overall its more likely a higher income person will have a pedigree animal then it ends up with poorer people subsidising the pets of richer people. I personally think this is very unfair.
We have so many things we pay now where the poor subsidise the rich. Council tax is not fairly banded to account for all the extra costs of larger homes out in the suburbs and energy costs for poorer people who use less are not fair when there is a standing charge that has to be paid for both gas and electricity. This means overall larger homes pay less per unit overall. This is especially bad when you consider we are trying to use less energy so subsidising high users of energy with those who use very little is completely wrong in my opinion. If you want to assist poorer people you would remove the energy standing charge and return to the rates system for local tax.
What is it with these cockerpoos, puggles and the like in the last few years. Back in the day, they were called mongrels and people couldn't give them away.
I have a Jack off a farm who didn't cost anything. It was either we took him or he would have been shot.
TheChimp My dog was a rescue dog TC, she was thrown in a rubbish skip as a pup, it wasn't to do with her being any particular type of breed . it doesn't matter to me if she is called a mongrel or whatever, it was to give her a better life
I doubt you care what breed Harvey is , you love him the same regardless
telmel My cat is just a classic moggy cat naturally bred although sometimes you do get a moggy cat that ends up looking identical to another moggy cat.
TheChimp I agree with you there TC
I hate it when i read about cross breed dogs that have damaged bodies and cannot breathe properly or have disfigured limbs later in life , the law should ban this type of breeding outright and give large fines to the people acting like frankensteins
I thought it was the other way round and people trying to make a breed that looks pretty but not practical in health sense, such as breathing??
LL81 Pugs are a good example L , lovely dogs , not pretty and they have breathing problems
Not a breed i would want banning though as they are a well established family dog and cherished by their owners
Bu i despise the people breeding vicious dogs for fighting etc , such as the x bully
. I have a calendar made of one every year! I have a cat so cannot currently have my own .
Yes I knew, cross breeds live longer too, had a cross staffy never got sick never went to vets, lived for 18 years, I had 2 pedigree staffys in that time, always had issues, eye infections or ear infections, both died of cancer, cross died of old age in the end
Always good to shake up the gene pool.True of people and plants as well.I always think of the Hapsburg chin and or Haemophilia in Royal lineage when I think about the dangers of interbreeding. 
MelissaLee1 A lot of it in the history of the royals M , here and abroad , saying that it was rife amongst the romans and egyptians back in the day
I wasn’t aware of it but it does make sense from a genetic point of view. Pedigree dogs have loads of problems
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