This is Matilda, and she’s available for adoption. She is 3/4 Chinese crested dog and 1/4 “red heeler” (red Australian cattle dog).
The only part of her that says she’s part Australian cattle dog is that she is rather robustly built, and her head shape and expression is somewhat like one.
The mutation for hairlessness in crested dogs, xoloitzcuintli, and those hairless dogs of the Andean region is inherited via a semi-dominant allele.
It’s very easy to get this trait established in different dog stocks with very little outcrossing.
I’d like to see what her F1 parent looked like. I wonder if it had been powderpuff bred to an ACD.
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There is some nasty anti-breeder rhetoric in that ad.
Just warning you.
There appears to be ticking on her front legs similar to the coat pattern in ACDs. But 1. how do they “know” that she is 1/4 “heeler”? And it’s misleading to call her a crested heeler. She’s a crested dog with some heeler characteristics — the patterning in the coat color.
Probably because she was surrendered by someone who actually knew her ancestry. The dog was not a stray. It was an owner surrender.
I don’t know why it’s misleading. I’m merely making a statement about her ancestry. If she were a powderpuff, I bet you wouldn’t be making these statements. Hairlessness makes dogs look weirder. That’s all.
Agree the ancestry of powerpuff might wake a few up to reality of the lethal nature of hairless dogs.
The combination of ACD Basic colors …A dog called blue and Chinese Crested
and 3/4 Wow. What a parallel you draw for us in Breeder responsibility today.
Sadly, this little dog has the potential to create in my mind’s eye if any survive a toothless, bald headed dog with poor bone structure.
While the potential of the Alaskan Loyal breeding program outlines a new type of breeder responsibility through addressing out dated color and pattern with new breeding tools. Thank you for the comparison reality.
Is there a reason you feel the need to double-post when you reply to a blog entry, instead of putting all your words in one comment? You could at least reply to yourself when you want to add something instead of spamming up the comments section with multiple threads.
The reason I objected to the dog being called a crested cattle dog is twofold. 1. It doesn’t look like one (and I doubt that a powderpuff version would have done so either). It looks like a crested cross of some kind (which in fact it is) and 2. the fact is that the dog is 3/4 crested and only 1/4 blue heeler and genetically, it is mostly crested.
That is assuming that the owners were correct — just because a dog is owner surrender doesn’t mean that they themselves really know what the dog (or its parents) were. I see lots of ads calling an obvious Australian Shepherd an ACD. I get calls from people about their “Belgian” that turns out to be black with tan on legs and face and 110 pounds. Or conversely, the one that was turned into Doberman rescue and was a SMALL Kelpie — the black and tan coloring made it “obviously” a Doberman to the person turning the dog in. I’ve seen even veterinarians get a breed identification wrong. It probably is as they claim it is, but one can’t be certain shy of DNA verification.
It’s an interesting dog regarding coat color (what there is of coat). IMO, it’s an ugly dog, but I’m sure others will find her cute. As an indication on the function of the hairless gene, it’s also interesting. Did the rescue folk have any information on her dentition?
It would only be possible for a powderpuff to be a parentdog if the other parentdog was a hairless one from a litter of 1/2 (hairless) crested and 1/2 ACD because only the hairless variety can pass on the hairless gene.
She looks like those pila dogs in the “Enigma of the Xoloitzquintle”.