I overheard a client at work telling another client that Northern innuits are a breed in their own right now and are recognised by the KC? Is this correct? I can't find any record of the KC recognising them. I always thought they were gsd/husky/mal crosses but they maintained that there may be a little bit of shepherd way back in their gene pool? As they haven't be around that long surely the GSD must be quite recent.

Definitely not.

No they're not recognised, and are very many years away from being recognised, if ever.

No they are not recognised nor from what I know are they very healthy - as they are the product of more than two breeds strictly speaking they are mongrels.

I wd. very much doubt it.  Though saying that with the other names that this cross has would all of the types be accepted??

I only know a few but health issues and especially temperament issues really worries me regarding them.

Again no,and I dont think they will ever be recognised.I hear this quite often,and at a recent show someone with one of my breeds swore that a Labradoddle was a fully recognised K.C reg breed.Yes the K.C shows mean hip scores now but not a reg breed.

I do think listing them under the silly names that these crossbreeds and mongrels are given makes people think they are genuine breeds and giving a false impression to the buying public, they should be listed a GSD crosses or Labrador crosses forget the made up names and silly oodles.

I have judged the Inuit on a few occasions and they vary so much in type that it will be a long way off before they are recognised. I found them to be beautiful dogs and they do have a 'breed standard'.There are also the Utonagans and the British Timber Dogs - all very similar but from what I can gather they are being bred within the three 'breeds'

> British Timber Dogs

Grief that gives us at least 4 names for similar crosses, can't see how they could be recognised when there are so many factions and such a mishmash re what gets produced and put in.

I have heard of: Northern Inuit, Utonogan and Tamascan, and now British Timber dogs. 

Then we also have people crossing recognised wolf like dogs the Saarloos and Czech wolf Dogs, it's a mess.

They certainly won't be recognised until they get their act together and all start singing from the same hymnsheet.

Every time I have searched the KC site for info on recognising new breeds, it has only ever mentioned breeds already recognised in other countries. I doubt there even is a way these days to get a crossbreed recognised that was created in the UK.

There must be a way, surely, because they managed with the Parson Russell Terrier.

Think the KC will consider any breed that has bred true for a large number of generations and has definite type. You would also need detailed and correct records of the animals used for a number of generations and there should be no out crossing going on. As there are at least 4 fractions all breeding the same crosses with the same inexcusable reason, that of looks alone. I have knowledge of epilepsy and temperament problems in the animals being bred and I can not see any likelihood of the KC recognising a crossbreed bred purely for its looks.

Think the Patterdale has more claim to being recognised but crossbreeds that are just crossbreeds like the Labradoodle (do not breed true to type through generations) have no chance at all because they are not breeds in their own right.