EDIT: Ugh, give me a minute... bumpy road made my mouse move to where it could click 'post' before I was ready....
EDIT TO THE EDIT: Okay, all done now.
EDIT TO THE EDIT TO THE EDIT: ... forgot a few words. I shouldn't be posting when I have a migrane...
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Pretend the chihuahua is a Lala female, and the great dane is a Roegadyn (switching the Lala to a corgi is only -slightly- better). Or that a english setter is a Miqo'te. The size difference is where the problem is. Actual act of mating aside, cross-breed/cross-species sort of heavily infers that the resulting offspring are going to have features of both parents, and size is a feature.
GRANTED... there probably are chihuahua/great dane crosses out there, but they're cases where the male was the chihuahua and and either either got the great dane when she was sitting/laying down, or used a step ladder. Either way, the experience was probably akin to throwing a hotdog down a hallway. And to go the other way (female chihuahua/male great dane) would be irresponsible for a breeder to attempt and for a vet to not suggest to terminate the pregnancy -- the health risks are too high for the dam.
And, yes... structural complications..! I spit my drink halfway across the truck when I looked at that picture!
EDIT TO THE EDIT: Okay, all done now.
EDIT TO THE EDIT TO THE EDIT: ... forgot a few words. I shouldn't be posting when I have a migrane...
(01-03-2015, 02:53 PM)Naunet Wrote: I can understand people having some sort of gut rejection of lalafell getting it on with other races, because they likely have some instinctive vision of lalafell as children, which ups the "ew no" factor. But... they're lalafell! Not children. Think of them like the chihuahua or the corgi or whatever of the "races of Man" world.My "ew no" factor is actually more like this:
Pretend the chihuahua is a Lala female, and the great dane is a Roegadyn (switching the Lala to a corgi is only -slightly- better). Or that a english setter is a Miqo'te. The size difference is where the problem is. Actual act of mating aside, cross-breed/cross-species sort of heavily infers that the resulting offspring are going to have features of both parents, and size is a feature.
GRANTED... there probably are chihuahua/great dane crosses out there, but they're cases where the male was the chihuahua and and either either got the great dane when she was sitting/laying down, or used a step ladder. Either way, the experience was probably akin to throwing a hotdog down a hallway. And to go the other way (female chihuahua/male great dane) would be irresponsible for a breeder to attempt and for a vet to not suggest to terminate the pregnancy -- the health risks are too high for the dam.
(01-03-2015, 03:12 PM)Kismet Wrote: I never thought cross-race breeding to be impossible with the Lalafell. (Edit: For the record, nor did I mean to imply that I was seeing them as eternal children or anything... so let's just toss that notion out.)My bad, I added in the eternal children thing because another post went in while I was slowly typing and I was referring to that as well.
I am merely concerned with possible structural complications...Â
And, yes... structural complications..! I spit my drink halfway across the truck when I looked at that picture!
