Category: Spinone Cross Breeds
Fortunately we don’t often see Spinoni crossed with other breeds. If you do happen to come across them and are tempted, please read the articles here before making up your mind. They are often marketed very skilfully so do your research carefully.
Hypo-allergenic? A non-shedding Spinone? A spinone sheds hair and is not hypo-allergenic.
If a Spinone is crossed with something that is less pre-disposed to shed hair then why would any puppies only inherit the coat genes from the non-shedding dog? If you want a dog that doesn’t moult, then don’t get a Spinone or a cross breed. Get a breed that doesn’t shed hair.
Health – are they more healthy than a pedigree?
A reputable Spinone breeder will have a great deal of knowledge and experience of the dogs that are in their pedigrees. They will know what goes with what, they will know the health issues in their lines and are breeding to improve on the previous generation. They will test their breeding dogs for known health issues and care about the welfare of both parents and puppies for the whole of their lives.
The best of both breeds? Why would crossing two breeds of dog result in only the best features of each breed?
All breeds have their good features and their bad. Individual dogs within each breed can display desirable and undesirable traits. Nature does not take all the good bits from each parent to produce the perfect dog. Even when breeding 2 dogs of the same breed this doesn’t happen, otherwise all pure bred dogs would be perfect!
Rare breed, pedigree, registered – what do these words really mean?
The breeder will tell you or advertise the fact that it’s a rare breed, the parents are both registered pedigrees.
Cross breeds are often marketed to fool the unsuspecting buyer into thinking that they are getting something of high quality or better than they actually are.
I own a cross breed, I don’t pretend she is anything more or anything less than that. She is an Italian Spinone x Irish Water Spaniel, she doesn’t have a made up name like a Spinaniel or a Spanone.
When I bought her, I was led to believe that the mating was accidental, the events that followed then made me come to the conclusion that she may have been more of an experiment. About a year later a lady appeared in my garden with another cross breed puppy, the same as mine, from the same breeder.
The experience of a cross breed owner from the USA.
Are cross breeds really cheaper than a pedigree or an expensive mistake? What are you actually getting for your money (or not as the case may be)?
Cross Breeds – Don’t be fooled by a fancy name.
The ISCGB neither supports nor recognises the crossing of a Spinone with any other breed.
We have a cross bred spinone and it was quite by accident, we decided to home a 12 day old puppy that was being abandoned in Cyprus this is a usual practice for un-wanted puppies. It was not until we re-located back to the UK that l even knew what a spinone dog was, someone recognised our dog as a spinone.