I agree with Sharian on this to conciously cross breeds is not IMO wise and totally not needed, when you breed you are doing so for the betterment of the breed you are trying to help support the health and good temprement of that breed and keep it from becoming so mixed that breeds become watered down and threatened.
You play with things too much they get spoilt, we have a labradoodle near to us and its skittish, snappy and mad it comes across as neurotic. It could be argued any dog from any breed could behave in this way but you surely reduce the risks if you breed like for like and even then you have to be so careful you are mateing the correct dog with the correct female.
We are only very new to the breeding scene but I definitely would not let one of my pups go knowing that they were going to be cross bred all my puppies will go with breeding restrictions and only if I feel the owners are going to breed responsibly schanuzer to schnauzer and with my input to help them, would I ever consider lifting the resriction, so any one wanting to breed with a pup I ever have will have to stay in touch with me as I would not even consider doing this until the dog was nearly 2 years old so I knew what her temprement was like, how shed grown in stature and how her health was.
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