Trying to explain designer dogs to a friend ?

Question

thanks guys i sent her the email!

Answer 1

I don't mean any disrespect..but you shouldn't try to discourage or encourage anyone on any subject that you are not educated on. Before you try to campaign any cause, you should do your research and make sure the opinions you stress are yours after being informed of the facts and not based on hearsay. Do your homework.

Answer 2

Check out this article:

http://www.dogzonline.com.au/pedigree_do...

Answer 3

It's hard to say and I don't envy your position having to explain that to a friend.

Look at what happened when George Peppard and Faye Dunnaway tried to breed Old English Sheepdogs with old wigs back in the 70's.

The result as you're probably aware was the lovable cat-eating garage smashing alien we all know as ALF.

Of course ALF was very popular and marketable in the 80's but would you want to watch that show now?

Answer 4

Ok a far as teacups - if any particular breed is on her  radar go to the dog's national breed club website and see if they have anything addressing it or give her the breed standard. Point out to her that the real deal is as small as it needs to be

For labradoodles - http://www.thelabradorclub.com/subpages/... from the breed club

Mini labs - i didn't even know someone was actually doing this -http://www.thelabradorclub.com/subpages/...

this should help too

http://www.prisonersofgreed.org/

And simply tell her the truth as you know it and as you can find it. in the end she like many others may have to learn the hard way.

Anubis: Actually teacup micro minis etc can be classified as designer dogs as they are just like the mutts being bred to make money - bred by design to scam people of out their money.

Answer 5

Designer dog a overpriced mutt with a cutesy name. Teacups a unhealthly runt that doesn't live long. Leaving the owner broken hearted and a heap of vet bills.

Answer 6

Try this way;-

Anyone who has purchased ( not adopted a mixed breed, that is fair enough) a designer or teacup dog might as well have sucker tattooed on their forehead.

Answer 7

I CANNOT BELIVE YOU. UGH YOU MAKE ME SICK JUST ASSUMING THINGS LIKE THAT. TEA CUPS ARE BRED FOR THIER SMALL SIZE AND YOU DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT A DESIGNER DOG IS. THEY ARE A MIX OF TWO PUREBED DOGS. EX: 50% BICHON FRISE 50% POODLE = BICHOODLE. OH AND THEY DO NOT COME FROM PUPPY MILLS!!!!!!

Answer 8

How can you explain something properly that you are obviously extremely biased about? I am a breeder of purebred Italian Mastiffs but I think it is wrong to jump on the 'purebred bandwagon' and just blindly pimp for purebreds. If you truely care about dogs the question should be "who is doing the breeding?"- not "what is being bred?" There are just as many BYB's of purebred dogs as there are mixed breeds. To assume that just because a puppy is purebred it came from a responsible and ethical breeder is complete foolishness just as it is foolish to assume every mixed breed was bred in a filthy and uncaring home.

I agree that many designer dog breeders are out to make money and are breeding for the wrong reasons but there are just as many bad purebred breeders. Labradoodles, of all the hybrids, were at least originally mixed for a good reason. -To create a dog to help people with disabilities that is hypo-allergenic. They are now recognized in Australia. Havanese also,were only recently recognized as a new breed.Mixing dog breeds in itself is not a bad thing. It has always been done and it will always be done. It is the people who take poor specimens that are not healthy and then breed them for profit that are bad.

There are hybrid breeders out there who health test each parent and use fantastic specimens of each breed. I see nothing wrong with this.

If purebred breeders have truely good stock themselves then they wouldn't worry themselves over desingner dogs.

There are much more pressing things happening than breeding designer dogs. Have you ever been to a reserve? (not all are bad) But in quite a few you will encounter starving dogs- complete mutts as well as purebreds,short haired puppies left out in -22 celcius, dogs being shot from helicopters because they are hungry and have resorted to attacking local wildlife. I've seen it 1st hand. it is a lot worse than breeding a hybrid and even worse than dogs being put down humanely at a shelter because most people don't care to know about these dogs and they suffer miserably.

Pick and choose your battles and what you tell your friend.

Answer 9

"designer" dogs are mixed dogs that are bred together to make appealing breeds. By giving them fancy names and making them sound like the in thing, people buy them because they are basically a "trend". But when 7 million dogs are euthanized every year in shelters because they are overpopulated, then it is VERY irresponsible and selfish to breed them.

FYI, teacups are not really considered "designer" breeds, its just the mixed dogs like labradoodles and puggles. But teacups are another horrible "trend" going around. Breeding a dog as small as you can get them. All this does is cost shortened life spans and HORRIBLE health and joint problems

Answer 10

My definition of a designer dog is:

A dog deliberately bred by an unscrupulous breeder from 2 different breeds, given a cutesy exotic name and sold to gullible buyers at ridiculously exorbitant prices.

There is a saying in Australia for the sort of people who pay big dollars for cross bred designer dogs, aka mutts, mongrels and bitzers, and that is "Come in galah and have a cigar". Which roughly translates to "You've been ripped off."

Answer 11

designer breeds -  dogs bred for certain characteristics that may not (and often do not) appear in the resulting dogs (for example a golden retriever that won't shed --> a goldendoodle - however they may shed and aren't always the nicest dogs)

teacups - dogs bred smaller and smaller until they are too small and may have major health dammage because of this... often these dogs are bred to be so small because stupid people find it "cute" and they are easy to dress up and carry around

Answer 12

Mutts with cutesy made-up 'breed names' slapped on them to get ignorant people to buy them.

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Answer 13

Send her this link: http://www.barkrescue.net/teacup.htm