Chaz

I agree, no two crosses look the same, and Paigeolivia, more time and effort has gone into pedigrees, making them more reliable in their ways, if you want a calm dog there is the goldie, if you want a smart dog there are collies and GSDs etc, if you want a non shedding dog there are poodles, IWS etc, a low excercise requirement dog a toy breed, I could go on and on about it, and most of the 'designer' dogs probaly come from un health tested parents to, and with so many dogs in rescue centres why shoud people be deliberty breeding cross breed, the is a dog breed out there for everyone all you have to do is look. And this is coming from a owner of cross breeds

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paigeolivia.

I know what you mean - Im not saying its the best choice for everyone. But I am never one for NEEDING to know immediately as Im for rescue dogs, I always take an older one too or my family always has. I agree no two crossbreeds are the same, which is why they are my favourite! So much variety. Any dog can have a lovely temperament if raised right, so breeding a cross for a purpose I dont mind. For a family pet, such as the General heinz 57, Lurchers and longdogs for hunting ect. Pedigrees just arent really my thing personally, The value of a dog isnt their breeding or the deepness of the wrinkles on their face, its inside. (:

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Draco

I grew up with a Springer Spaniel Cocker cross. His name was Frisky and he was our 'mutt'. That's what he was, a mutt. I wasn't even in kindergarten yet when we got him... so it was LONG before the designer dog craze! Frisky was a not for chasing the ball and had to be shaved down each Spring as his coat grew all funky. He was a good dog... but he was a mutt, a crossbreed, a hybrid. He was also adopted from the pound.

The thing with these designer dogs now a-day is that they mistakenly being called 'breeds', they are not a breed. They are a hybridization. Pure and simple. And they would be better called 'designer cashpots'. They are Darwin grabbags where goodness only knows which traits from which parent breed they are going to inherit. Mixing doesn't mean only the good will come through... sometimes one through ill-luck of the draw can get all the undesirible traits. For example, my brother and sis-in-law have a Bichon crossed Bichon/Shih Tzu cross. The dog is unstable, pure and simple.

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Chaz

your right, and every dog needs a home but there are so many poeple latching on to designer breeds, my own auntie has brought a labradoodle, and we are thinking that she is going to breed from it, well she will have a rant from me before she does as I would consider her a BYB, and there are loads more people like her, who just want to make money from animals, and with a cross you don't know who the parents or what lines the parents are from, and many poeple will not think to ask about health tests that the parents have had, some people just think that a male and female dog put together will make healthy puppies, well any people who breed will tell them that it won't.

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