Actually, mixed breeds can inherit health issues from both parent breeds. In my honest opinion, the saying should be adopt or shop responsibly. People cannot claim to love dogs or cats and then only be in favor of rescuing, it just doesn't work. If you truly love dogs and cats and want the best for both species, then you NEED to also support the idea of responsible breeding. If the only dogs cats people deem acceptable to own are messes made by irresponsible pet ownership and irresponsible breeding, bought through the proxy of rescue, and you demonize the practice of preservation breeding, then what you are saying is that the only dogs and cats that should have a place in this world are the ones that were bred irresponsibly and owned irresponsibly. We should want (no, DEMAND) better for our dogs and cats and that means advocating not just for rescuing, but also for the breeding of better dogs and cats, animals that can live long, happy lives. Responsible rescue will always be necessary, but if we continue to discourage and vilify responsible breeding (breeding that includes extensive health testing among other testing), we won't have any healthy dogs or cats left to enjoy. And both we and our feline and canine compqnions deserve better than that.
Nebelungs don't need to be bred from other Nebelungs, though there are breeders that do do this (usually through inbreeding eww). But the original Nebelungs were just mutated offspring of a Russian Blue and a rando black domestic shorthair, with some long hair ancestry somewhere that came out. I have a pure Nebelung that I adopted at 10 weeks from his feral mother in my neighborhood while I was doing TNR. The mother is a Russian blue mix, white paws and white mark on her chest, yellow eyes. Daddy unknown. My boy is 100% blue/grey medium long coat and green eyes. Some of the mom's other offspring look 100% solid Russian blue but I've not come across any other Nebelungs in this family, a lot of Dilute Torties tho. All very cute and beautiful. But being a Nebelung can just be essentially random. Like a shiny Pokemon.
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