Tibetan Mastiff/ Irish Wolfhound Mix?

Tibetan Mastiff Mix

Tibetan Wolfhound

The idea about pure bred dogs is that the offspring will have predictable traits. If you mix two pure bred dogs a lot of that predictability goes out of the window. You don't know how the puppies will turn out, it can be any mix between parents or even grand parents or great grandparents for recessive traits.

But since giant breeds don't generally live very long and are more likely to have skeletal in particular hip and elbow problems, unless your dogs are very sound it would not be a good idea to breed them at all for there would be a high risk of unhealthy puppies. If your dogs are sound, then why breed mutts instead of pure bred dogs?

Generally it won't improve the dog if you take two dogs who are bred for different purposes and mix them. If you have a life-stock guarding dog like the tibetan mastiff and a sight hunting dog like the Irish Wolfhound. Should now the resulting puppy hunt or guard?

Large (or giant) mutts are notoriously hard to find homes for. My friend had an Irish Wolfhound/Mastiff mix, the result of an accidental breeding. He died of bone cancer (very painful) at 5. I recommend you forget breeding these dogs.

I don't see a point to the mix. You might just get more mellow tibetan mastiffs. But you could get REALLY short lived dogs who are aggressive. It's a risk. What will you do if the puppies are hideous and mean? You will still be responsible for them.

Oh, cool, they get along.

What about the hips and eyes? What testing have you done for those, to ensure that, like many large breed dogs, they don't pass on a stealthy hip displasia predisposition to their offspring, or that just because the progressive retinal atrophy hasn't become obvious yet that it still won't pass on to the litter?

Whether they get along or not is the least of your concerns. As for temperament, any individual pup could display any positive or negative temperament traits in either or both breeds. In dogs temperament is largely genetic.

Only an idiot would allow it. There's more to breeding then having a male and a female dog. Only backyard breeders use untested breeding stock (OFAs) and whelp litters of mutts for no purpose.

Your dog is not pure bred nor is your freinds dog. You both have ill bred mutts. REAL pure bred dogs are altered so people like you can't bred them and produce ill bred mutts and since real breeders are very protective of thier bloodlines, they dont ever sell people like you intact animals.

Since the dog is a common mutt she will produce worthless ill bred common mutts no one will want and will be dumped into shelters to be put down.

Sorry but only a moron would allow these two dogs to breed.

Enough said !

she will produce mutts ....nothing more ... .......... another very very clueless " WANT TO BE ...BACKYARD BREEDER..........dogs are not toys for you to play with to see what comes out ....find something else to do with your time then endangering dogs ...... YES WHEN YOU ARE AS CLUELESS AS YOU ARE YOU ENDANGER THE DSOG AND HER PUPS .......GET BOTH OF YOUR DOGS FIXED AND JUST LOVE THEM