When you identify the species Dog on an animal record, the primary breed will automatically be set to Unknown breed. If you do not want to identify a primary dog breed, just leave that default setting. In our first example of adding an animal record below, you can see we have not yet identified a species, so the primary breed is not set:
Once you set Species to Dog, the primary breed value defaults to Unknown breed:
If Species is set to any other option besides Dog, the primary breed must still be identified:
This change only pertains to dogs. All other species still require a primary breed.
Dogs without a breed are exported to Adopt-a-Pet.com and Petfinder using the breed identifier: Mixed breed. In all RescueGroups.org services, such as our Website and Toolkit, these animals will be listed as Unknown breed.
IMPORTANT
If you do not select a primary breed but do select a secondary breed, the secondary breed you select will populate the primary breed field on the adoption sites. The secondary breed is optional. You do not have to select a breed for that field.
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