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A reference for petz breeders who want to fine-tune their lines, or anyone interested in extension-based breeding project inspiration?

Body & Leg Extensions are Individual Breed-swappable Traits

(This knowledge brought to you by Reflet's Genepoolz)

How Scales (the [Default Scales] section in a pet or breed lnz) and Extensions ([Body Extensions] and [Leg Extensions]) inherited in mixies was one of the big petz mysteries for me. It turns out they are individual traits which can each be selectively bred, by mutation, onto other breeds even if no visible breed traits remain present. This means, for example, you can breed a Dane mix to have only the short leg extensions of a Dachshund, even though it still has Dane legs. Or you can strengthen your "Pure" mixie lines by aiming for only the original breed's extensions!
Default Scales work the same way: it's completely possible to split the small scales size of a Chinchilla Persian onto another breed mix, without keeping any other Chinchilla Persian traits. This is how you make "minis" :)

[Default Scales], [Body Extensions] & [Leg Extensions] Reference

Want to know which breeds your mixie pet's finer traits have descended from? Here are all of the unhexed original breeds' Scales and Extension numbers (as they show in Genepoolz)
Note: Some of these numbers aren't exactly what you'll see if you open the breed in LnzPro. The Default Scales and Leg Extensions sections have two numbers each - and they are sometimes two different numbers. In bred petz, however, those two numbers become a single number, and this sort-of-averaged number seems to be what GenePoolz shows.
When a breed shows more than one number in these lists (# or # or #), that means it has multiple variations for that trait!

Breed name (Abbreviation in the Lnz) [Default Scales] / [Body Extension] / [Leg Extension]

Bulldog (bd) 144 / -10 / -7

Chihuahua (ch) 100 / -10 or -7 or -4 / 2 or 4 or 7

Dachshund (dh) 120 / 15 or 20 or 25 / -13

Dalmatian (dm) 150 / 14 / 8

German Shepherd (gs) 150 / 10 / 20

Golden Retriever (gr) 150 / 29 / 18

Great Dane (gd) 157 / 6 or 10 or 14 / 15 or 17
(also has variations in head enlargement and feet enlargement)

Jack Russel (jr) 130 / 14 / 8

Labrador (lr) 150 / 12 or 17 or 22 / 13

Mutt (mt) 150 / 0 / 4

Papillon (pa) 100 / -10 or -7 or -4 / 2 or 4 or 7
(exactly the same as the Chi)

Poodle (pd)
(standard size) 138 / -10 / 6
(toy size) 112 / -20 / 1

Pug (pu) 120 / -5 / -2

Scottie (sc) 135 / -15 or -5 / -10
(also has variations in face extension for long noses and in feet enlargement)

Sheepdog (sd) 150 / -10 / 0

Alley Cat (ac) 110 / 0 / 0

B+W Shorthair (bw) 110 / 0 / 6

Calico (ca) 110 / 0 / 0

Chinchilla Persian (rd) 90 / -25 / -3

Desert Lynx (dl) 110 / 0 or 5 or 10 / 7 or 10 or 12 (3 variations)

Egyptian Mau (em) 110 / -5 or 0 or 5 / 7 or 13 or 15

Honey Bear (hb) 140 / -15 or -10 or -5 / 0 or 6 or 8

Japanese Bobtail (jb) 110 / 0 or 5 or 10 / 7 or 10 or 12

Maine Coon (mc) 114 / -5 or 0 or 5 / 7 or 13 or 15

Orange Shorthair (or) 102 / 0 / 0

Persian (pr) 105 / 0 / -3

Russian Blue (rb) 110 / 0 / 6

Scottish Fold (sf) 114 / -5 or 0 or 5 / 2 or 8 or 10

Siamese (si) 110 / 0 / 11

Tabby (ta) 110 / -5 / 0

[Default Scales] from Smallest to Largest

100 Chi, Papillon
112 Poodle (toy size)
120 Dachshund, Pug
130 Jack Russel
135 Scottie
138 Poodle (standard)
144 Bulldog
150 (all other breeds)
157 Great Dane

90 Chinchilla Persian
102 Orange Shorthair
105 Persian
110 (all the other breeds)
114 Maine Coon, Scottish Fold
140 Honey Bear

Petz can also inherit smaller Scale numbers down to a minimum of 75 (the smallest breedable minis) or larger (up to 160 I think) from hexed lineage!

[Body Extension] from Shortest Body to Longest Body

-20 Poodle (toy size)
-15/-5 Scottie
-10 Bulldog, Poodle (standard), Sheepdog
-10/-7/-4 Chihuahua, Papillon
-5 Pug
0 Mutt
6/10/14 Great Dane
10 German Shepherd
14 Dalmatian, Jack Russel
12/17/22 Labrador
15/20/25 Dachshund
29 Golden Retriever

-25 Chinchilla Persian
-15/-10/-5 Honey Bear
-5 Tabby
-5/0/5 Maine Coon, Egyptian Mau, Scottish Fold
0 (all other breeds)
0/5/10 Desert Lynx, Japanese Bobtail

[Leg Extension] from Shortest Legs to Tallest

-13 Dachshund
-10 Scottie
-7 Bulldog
-2 Pug
0 Sheepdog
1 Poodle (toy size)
2/4/7 Chihuahua, Papillon
4 Mutt
6 Poodle (standard size)
8 Dalmatian, Jack Russell
13 Labrador
15/17 Dane
18 Golden Retriever
20 German Shepherd

-3 Chinchilla Persian, Persian
0 (all other breeds)
0/6/8 Honey Bear
2/8/10 Scottish Fold
6 B+W Shorthair, Russian Blue
11 Siamese
7/10/12 Desert Lynx, Japanese Bobtail
7/13/15 Maine Coon, Egyptian Mau