However, as Sung Yung-yi, head of the National Taiwan University Department of Animal Husbandry notes, most of these short-haired, yellow animals were mutts being mixed with strains brought in from overseas.
街頭經常可見的土黃色、短毛、中等「狗」材的，不就是台灣土狗嗎？「一、二十年前，一般所稱的『土狗』，大概還有不少純土狗血統」，台大畜牧研究所所長宋永義說，但現在看到的「土狗」，絕大多數都已是洋不洋、土不土的「毛毛狗」。