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Originally Posted by Garden Carpet  I did notice an And at the beginning of a sentence... not good grammar. |
OK I'll put you out of your misery
I'm referring to the use of the word "
species" in these two paragraphs:
"But what happens after the first generation of crossbreeds? Do puggles breed with puggles? Or does one breed back with a pug or a beagle? A cross breeding with another cross, warn geneticists, is liable to create "extremes of confirmation" - throwbacks to the original species. And that could lead to a puppy that is too large for a mother to safely give birth to.
"The truth is that we don't know what happens next," says Cumberland. "I personally don't think you can beat the first generation, and as a kennel, we're not going to venture past that point. It's just that first cross that is so much hardier, and healthier than the two species it comes from."
Pugs, beagles and all other breeds of dog are members of the same species
Canis familiaris , the domestic dog (I'm not even sure they count as subspecies). If they were members of different species, they wouldn't be able to interbreed, or at least they wouldn't produce fertile young. That's a basic principle of biology.
Sloppy editing - I hate it. There's no excuse for it in this digital age, but it just gets worse and worse.
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