A useful breed of animals may thus be lost, and a generation of mongrels established in their place, a result which has followed in numerous instances amongst every breed of animals.
Uniformity at once disappears; some of the offspring resemble the grandsire, and others the grandams, and some possess the disposition and constitution of the one and some of the other; and consequently a race of mongrels is perpetuated.
Independent of sterility there is no difference between mongrels and hybrids, as can be shown in a long series of facts.
This section corresponds roughly to that on Hybrids and Mongrels compared independently of their fertility, Origin, Ed.
Darwin resorted to much ingenious argument in his attempt to explain what he believed to be the almost universal sterility of hybrids, as opposed to mongrels or crosses between varieties.
Mongrels are well known to be readily produced, and hence the notion arises that hybrids between the most widely-separated species are possible.
Although they are mongrels or hybrids, they have all the appearance of pure grey mice.
Now, as the various intermixing of these latter animals causes mongrels, so mankind have their mongrels too, divided and subdivided into endless sorts.
Most of our domestic breeds have been so often crossed, and their mongrels so largely kept, that it is almost certain, if any degree of infertility had existed between them, it would have been detected.
The accurate Neumeister asserts that when dovecotes are crossed with pigeons of any other breed, the mongrels are extremely fertile and hardy.
Buffon got four successive generations from the wolf and dog, and the mongrels were perfectly fertile together.
I paired a mongrel female Barb-fantail with a mongrel male Barb-spot; neither of which mongrels had the least blue about them.
With respect to the extraordinary tendency which this tree exhibits to complete or partial reversion, we have seen that undoubted seminal hybrids and mongrels are similarly liable.
I paired a mongrel female barb-fantail with a mongrel male barb-spot; neither of which mongrels had the least blue about them.
The mongrels are, so far as we know, fertile with one another.
Those who early purchased the Merino crossed them with the Native; and when the Saxons arrived those mongrels were bred to Saxon rams.
Three were short-haired pointers, one was a Newfoundland, and the other two were mongrels of indeterminate breed.
The two mongrels were without spirit at all; bones were the only things breakable about them.
The Newfoundland went first, followed by the three short-haired pointers, the two mongrels hanging more grittily on to life, but going in the end.
With other fine dogs of the same breeds, they soon supplanted the Eskimo and mongrelsthat had been previously used for years about the place.
No one has been hurt; Maliè's men simply picked the mongrels up by the scruff of their necks and then tied them up.
Berthoud van Berchem saw mongrels which proceeded from the copulation of a wild goat brought up at Aigle in the Lower Vallais, in the house of the governor of Vatteville, with many domestic goats.
Concerning dogs who weremongrels he was kind but thought them much better dead.
Moreover, if we unite these mongrels to one of the two primitive species, they soon revert completely and totally to that species.
The mongrels of the dog and the wolf are sterile from the third generation.
The mongrelsof the jackal and the dog are so from the fourth.
In a few instances, however, mongrels have retained a uniform character from their first production.
Moreover, it has been clearly proved that mongrels which are perfectly fertile gain these same advantages as well as sterile hybrids.
Germany mongrels have been obtained, though very rarely, which were furnished with the tuft and would trumpet: but a pair of these mongrels with a tuft, which I imported, never trumpeted.
Mr. Chaundy raised a great number ofmongrels by planting together six distinct varieties of cabbage.
He then re-crossed one of these mongrels with the pure Japanese, and in the litter thus produced one of the young resembled in all its characters a wild pig; it had a long snout and upright ears, and was striped on the back.
It has long been notorious that hybrids and mongrels often revert to both or to one of their parent-forms, after an interval of from two to seven or eight, or, according to some authorities, even a greater number of generations.
The accurate Neumeister asserts that when dovecots are crossed with pigeons of any other breed themongrels are extremely fertile and hardy.
Moreover, it has been clearly proved that mongrels which are perfectly fertile gain these same advantages, as well as sterile hybrids.
Mongrels of the first generation, entirely unfertile, either between each other, or with the two parent species, and consequently being unable to produce either direct descendants or mongrels of the second generation.
Mongrels of the first generation having a partial fecundity.
We would first observe that the number of mongrels is in many countries much more considerable, if the intermixture is effected in the same manner as is notably the case in South Africa.
Mongrels of the first generation entirely fertile.
If in either of the groups there exists too great a numerical inequality, the mongrels resume, after the lapse of a few generations, nearly all the traits of the more numerous race, and are fused in it.
The mongrels of the second generation, produced by this interbreeding, are infertile.
What in animals in general, characterises the eugenesic hybridity, is the unlimited fecundity of mongrels of the first degree between themselves.
Baudrillart, in the "dictionaire des chasses," further remarks that the mongrels produced by this connection are very viciously disposed and inclined to bite.
Thanks to the influence of the Kennel Club and the institution of dog shows, which have encouraged the improvement of distinct breeds, there are fewer nondescript mongrels in our midst than there were a generation or so ago.
Although the modern dog is seen less often than of old performing his legitimate duties as a shepherd dog, there is no ground whatever for supposing that he is a whit less sagacious than the mongrels which have largely supplanted him.
The judges unfortunately have as yet their eyes filled with the 'Scottish' terrier type and prefer mongrels that show it to the real 'Simon Pure.
There are fewer mongrels in our midst, and the family dog has become a respectable member of society.
She had scratched and bitten her way through the reed and mud wall of the hut, scared the wits out of a couple of boys who had tried to head her off, and raced away after us with a pack of kaffir mongrels yelping unnoticed at her heels.
Jock took up his place at the door, and hungry mongrels watched him from a distance or sneaked up a little closer when from time to time he trotted round to the yard at the back of the building to see how things were going there.
It has long been notorious that hybrids and mongrels often revert to both or to one of their parent-forms, after an interval of from two to seven or eight, or according to some authorities even a greater number of generations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mongrels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
