In my mind a cur is a mutt also. With that being said I see catahoula , black mouth, mountain, and other cur dogs bread to a standard of look temperament and ability are indeed just another breed.
All these 1/4 this half that mixed up mess are cur dogs or mutts. I own some of these dogs and they get the job done but in my mind they are still mutts.
Until they are reproduced....exactly....10 generations.....to where every litter comes out near exact in confirmation and color.......are they still just mutts then?
I think it would take more than 10 generations. To me it would need to be able to take 2 dogs of same "breed" off different yards that would not be considered line bred to produce a consistent standard.
For example I have a red catahoula if u had a catahoula we should be able to breed these dogs and produce pups that are unmistakably catahoula. Same goes for black mouth or mountain or any other breed.
Until this point to me they are just mutts. They may be ur line or mine but they are a line at best not a breed.
I'm not trying to be confusing or insulting to anyone but this is the way I see it. Without a standerd adhered to by multiple lines of dogs that consistently produce the same standard they are line bred mutts or curs
perfect example.
This is where I kind of disagree.....this is based on confirmation and color alone and ONLY AN EXAMPLE:
You can take 10 Walker Males, 10 Blue Leopard Catahoula Females, 10 Fawn Pittbulls Females and 10 Yellow Black Mouth Curs Males, every dog in each Breed being of different blood. You could cross all these dogs and The litters out of these dogs would sure enough be considered crosses, or "Mutts". Now you can select a Male and Female from each litter....with a certain confirmation and color (as near as possible) and make multiple breedings....always basing your selections on that confirmation and color until you build up a base of these Male and Female crosses or Mutts that are similar in confirmation and color but are in no way related.
You would take these pups and begin crossing them to come up with your "Mutt" that is 4 quarters of 4 different breeds....again making your selections based on confirmation and color only. Now we are only 2 generations into this program and we have a foundation stock of 40 1/4 Walker 1/4 Cat 1/4 BMC 1/4 Pitt Male and female dogs that you can get 20 breedings out of without crossing a related dog.
Continue your breeding.....selecting your pups on a strict confirmation and color and I would THINK....you could easily produce a litter of pups that are near identical in color and confirmation by the time you reach the 10th generation and continue to do so with said pups being only very distantly related.
Again this is only an example and doesn't even take into account hunting attributes. I HAVE to think this is how MANY breeds came about and I am in awe of how the men who did the work that it took to not only create these breeds but they did it while still accounting for the working ability of the dogs.
Genius
