Every "designer dog" puppy purchased from a back yard breeder, pet store or puppy mill means that a dog in a shelter dies. Pretty simple math.
If a thousand people are looking for pets on a given day, and they buy a thousand "designer dogs" (which are mutts, plain and simple, I don't care how cute and trendy the name is), then a thousand homeless shelter dogs are killed, because the potential homes for them are now filled with expensive dogs with fancy names.
If you want a dog with a trendy name, go to a shelter and adopt a mixed breed that would otherwise be killed. Give it a cute and trendy name. Problem solved.
Pepper, whom I rescued from death row, is a chihuahua/smooth fox terrier cross. I think I'll call her a ChiFox. Whatever ... she's alive and loved. Georgie, whom I rescued from death row, is a beagle/jack russell terrier cross. I think I'll call him a Jackle. Whatever ... he's alive and loved.
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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