brookcove
Posted : 2/22/2008 1:11:26 PM
It's quite common to breed Catahoula with a herding dog (Aussie, BC) to increase the biddability - curs are otherwise a fairly independent, hard to handle type of herding dog.
There are some Hangin' Tree Cowdogs around here, too, and are rapidly increasing in popularity. That's another herding cur type of somewhat recent development.
Longer coats are dominant, so if she had an Aussie parent, there would
only be a one in four chance of a really short-coated dog, I think.
Long hair is recessive to short. So because a rough coated dog has to be homogenous (carries two smooth coated genes) it depends on whether the short coated dog carried a long coated allele, on how likely you'd get a smooth (short) coat from a long to short (rough to smooth) mating. You could have a fifty-fifty or only one in four as you said.
There's a Catahoula Aussie mix on our flyball team - very cool dog! Tall and skinny, a little stubborn, and very wiggly! :) Blue merle tri.