Originally Posted by barbiespoodle

Bailey lover, sorry you're feeling picked on. We know you love Bailey. It's just that designer breeds are causing a lot of problems in the doggy world.

I don't think the people who posted here are calling people who buy designer breeds stupid. It's just that a lot of us feel that when someone pays that much money for a x breed, it just give the people who breed them more incentive to continue to do so. Personally I feel that with so many x breeds being put to sleep everyday in pounds, it's a waste of life to make more x breeds on purpose. Maybe the pounds should start giving their x breed dogs fancy names, might make them more adoptable.
maybe they should, but then maybe they don't want some of the wrong sort being interested in the dogs, you know the sort who do just want to brag about their dogs.

I loved Chaz story because it shows how it should be. Billy is one of the designer breeds people are paying alot of money for, but even with taking all the right actions on his parents owners side, accidents do happen. But they didn't cash in on it, they did the right thing and found the pups good homes.
It is a good thing that they done, and what's even better is that they are now getting their dogs fixed so that it doesn't happen again, and when the dogs were ready, they didn't advertise them, but they asked around as to who wants a dog, without telling them about Billy and his litter mates, it was all friend of a friend sort of thing, they kept the litter quiet until the pups were ready. And then went looking for new owners of for the puppies.

I don't think this has been brought up yet. Designer breeds have become the new puppy mill and BYB, cash crop.
Unfortunately poor dogs.

And this is the part that breaks my heart even more. You always hear you should charge at least a little for any pup because if the new owner can't pay a few bucks, they can't afford to keep the dog. Well how much someone pays for a dog is no guarentee they will take care of the dog. When I decided I needed another standard poodle in my life, I did some web searches for another black male. I came across a number of sites selling parti colors, a real shock to me since I hadn't looked for a standard poodle in 14 years and that was in the pre computer age. I never saw any for less than $1000. So I figure someone at sometime paid big bucks for Chewie and then abused him, neglected him and left him close to death at a pound where I walked out with him for a whopping $40 (plus an additional $300 in vet bills and countless tears to get him well). I think what I'm trying to say is that designer breeds have become a prestige thing. Don't mean they are taken care of, just someone wanting to brag about their fancy designer breed the same way they brag about their big screen tv.

For the record, even with my history of show dogs, I have had mix breeds and have loved them just as much as my pure breeds. One of the best dogs I ever had was a pug/springer cross and I got him for free. My companion of 15 years was a chow cross from the pound, not a good dog, but my dog and I loved her. I never tried to call Mugsy a spug, or Miss Pops a Golden Chowiver, or any other fancy names I could have come up with, they were cross's, mutts, mongrels, or just plain dogs.