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I put it in quotes, because of course it's not a real breed. I was doing some searching last night and found that many BYB's will cross the Malinois and the GSD and call the resulting offspring German Malinois.
The name aside, it sounds like a good cross if the right aspects were kept in mind. It sounds like this is done overseas to produce sport and working dogs. Essentially a stockier more powerful Malinois; when the results turn out as desired. Of course puppies are a crapshoot and you could end up with the worst traits of both.
Are there any legit breeders in the states crossing the two, or are they primarily just BYB's? Obviously there are going to be many on both sides opposed to it because essentially you're creating a mutt, but if the lines of both sire and dam are known and the two are carefully matched, it seems to me it's not much more of a crapshoot than crossing two of the same breed. IMHO all breeds were created from the mixing and selective breeding of various breeds, so if the right goals and reasons are behind it, I'm not opposed to selectively crossing two breeds to create a different breed (not necessarily a SUPERIOR breed, just different). One could argue the point of why cross them? Just get a GSD or a Mal. But then again, out of the hundreds of dog breeds the same could be argued in many cases there as well. Why get X breed or create Y breed when you could just get Z breed.
The name aside, it sounds like a good cross if the right aspects were kept in mind. It sounds like this is done overseas to produce sport and working dogs. Essentially a stockier more powerful Malinois; when the results turn out as desired. Of course puppies are a crapshoot and you could end up with the worst traits of both.
Are there any legit breeders in the states crossing the two, or are they primarily just BYB's? Obviously there are going to be many on both sides opposed to it because essentially you're creating a mutt, but if the lines of both sire and dam are known and the two are carefully matched, it seems to me it's not much more of a crapshoot than crossing two of the same breed. IMHO all breeds were created from the mixing and selective breeding of various breeds, so if the right goals and reasons are behind it, I'm not opposed to selectively crossing two breeds to create a different breed (not necessarily a SUPERIOR breed, just different). One could argue the point of why cross them? Just get a GSD or a Mal. But then again, out of the hundreds of dog breeds the same could be argued in many cases there as well. Why get X breed or create Y breed when you could just get Z breed.