They are not, it’s just some breed representation thing, and they certainly look more dingoey than a Jack Russel, but at least in the United States, it’s likely to be trace amounts. Source, I own two, but admittedly neither have had any sort of genetic test so I guess my hearsay is as good as yours…I should find out, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if they had up to a quarter dingo somehow.
They actually are a dingo cross breed. The Blue Heeler and The Red Australian Cattle Dog are both mixed with dingo. English breeds were not able to handle Australia and were bred with captured dingos for toughness.
There seems to be some confusion with how a hybrid could breed in this chain.
Cell Division is what causes problems for Hybrid animals reproducing.
If the cell begins dividing and the chromosomes within can not find like pairs the cell stops dividing and will not become an animal.
Dogs and Dingos are close enough that even though not all chromosomes are paired correctly, they can still create a viable animal.
Dingos are wild dogs, they’re descendants of Dogs brought to Australia about 4,000 years ago.
No I just mean in general, the Australian cattle dog was originally created by crossing herding breeds (mostly speckled collies) with the native dingo. The collies couldn’t handle the heat so they introduced a breed that was capable of doing so.
If you do a genetics test it’ll just show them as being “Australian cattle dog” cause that’s what the genetic markers are identified as now.
Blue heelers are half dingo I believe.
They are not, it’s just some breed representation thing, and they certainly look more dingoey than a Jack Russel, but at least in the United States, it’s likely to be trace amounts. Source, I own two, but admittedly neither have had any sort of genetic test so I guess my hearsay is as good as yours…I should find out, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if they had up to a quarter dingo somehow.
They actually are a dingo cross breed. The Blue Heeler and The Red Australian Cattle Dog are both mixed with dingo. English breeds were not able to handle Australia and were bred with captured dingos for toughness.
There seems to be some confusion with how a hybrid could breed in this chain.
Cell Division is what causes problems for Hybrid animals reproducing.
If the cell begins dividing and the chromosomes within can not find like pairs the cell stops dividing and will not become an animal.
Dogs and Dingos are close enough that even though not all chromosomes are paired correctly, they can still create a viable animal.
Dingos are wild dogs, they’re descendants of Dogs brought to Australia about 4,000 years ago.
No I just mean in general, the Australian cattle dog was originally created by crossing herding breeds (mostly speckled collies) with the native dingo. The collies couldn’t handle the heat so they introduced a breed that was capable of doing so.
If you do a genetics test it’ll just show them as being “Australian cattle dog” cause that’s what the genetic markers are identified as now.