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Hybrid Dogs or Mutts and Mongrels?

A wary-looking chhuahua

Time was when dogs were bred for usefulness. Collies run after sheep. Jack Russells chase foxes. Dachshunds flush out badgers. Beagles hunt food. Any food. But the breed was originally developed to hunt hare. Greyhounds can’t resist an electric hare. Chihuahuas are canine hot water bottles. But in the 1980s, a cross-breeding act of compassion unwittingly started a whole new… Read more »