Monday, March 12th, 2012 at
8:07 pm
I was annoyed when a show on animal planet "Dogs 101" said there were 3 kinds of dogs: Purebreed, mutts, and designer dogs. By Animal planets definition, a mutt was a mix of NON purebred dogs, while a designer dog is a "hybrid" of 2 purebred dogs.
I'm thinking that the fight against "designer dogs" is going to be a lost one.
What are the harmful repercussions of having this new class, designer dogs, exist, and buying them?
and is there anything positive that can come out of having the class designer dogs?
well one thing i can think of are people BYBing their dogs more to sell designer dogs for 00
Wolfy, good point about a pos. thing being people wanting to own mutts, but im afraid they wont get them from rescues still, but just bybs and more puppymills..
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Sunday, March 11th, 2012 at
8:06 pm
I’m not talking about whether or not they make good pets (because I’m sure they do), but about your opinion of the phenomenon itself. About the practice of breeding two specific breeds together to “create” a new “breed,” and people actually accepting it as such. Traditionally, this is not how breeds were created. Different breeds were often bred together to develop new ones, yes, but it was usually many different breeds, and it was done over a number of years, carefully, to reach a new breed, usually for a specific purpose. Breed A and breed B were not just “stuck” together to get breed C. It seems to be getting more and more popular, and you even have people insisting that one day, Goldendoodles for example, will be “real” recognized breeds by the AKC, and similar organizations.
So what do you think? Are these “designer” breeds just mutts, or something more? Do you think this is a harmless practice, a beneficial practice, or just needlessly creating more mutts?
And, why is a Golden Retriever/Poodle mix a real breed to some people, but to the very same people, a Cocker Spaniel/Fox Terrier mix is just a mutt? Why is a Chihuahua/Pomeranian mix not a mutt, while a Lab/Afghan mix is? That seems like a blatant double standard to me.
Goldengal, I'm not sure who you might be thinking of, but I'm quite sure I have never asked this question before.
Wild and Free, a Goldendoodle is a Golden Retriever/Poodle mix, and a Labradoodle is a Lab/Poodle mix, as far as I’m aware.
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