by Ed A from NJ
(New Jersey)
For 5 years or so I have been chasing more information on the meaning of lupomossoloid. Finely I found someone who really seemed to know.
I went to a show in New York city called meet the breeds. I met a gentle man who is a canine anthropologist. What I got from him made sense. He said it is believed the great Pyrenees was not part of the mastiff migration which brought the rest of the big white guard breeds from Asia, since they are all mossoloids and part of the mastiff family.
They now believe the Pyrenees has been secluded up in those mountains much longer and are defendant from the long extinct Asian white wolf. That would explain why their DNA is so exclusive earning them the separate distinction of lupomossoloid.
The only two dogs that clearly bring forward the same DNA strain are the Newfoundland and more so the Lancer which both are said to have Pyrenees in there original breeding are still classified as mossoloid but do have Pyrenees lupo DNA strains.
He also sighted breeders in the 1870s who went up to into the Pyrenees to select the most dominant examples of the breed with saving the bred from being watered down by mastiff cross breeding. How ever it happened I'm glad there still around today.
This is by far the closest explanation of lupomossaloid I have ever herd. Does anyone else understand this designation better?
I have been mesmerized by this breed since I had my first Pyrenees. I do know they are not like any other dog I have ever owned. With a newfie now in our fold I am even more interested in finding out about our wonderful breed.
Comments for Pyrenees may be massive but the're not mastiffs
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