Designer Breeds

[vinjashira]

I love puggles, they're so cute Puggles are mix-breeds not mutts.
I do not support mix-breeding. But I have nothing against mixbreeds or mutts
I wouldn't spend $2500 to buy a mix-breed or a mutt,
but I wouldn't spend that kind of money to buy a pedigree dog either

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Designer dogs are just plain wrong!!!!!

[IRescue452]

ALL back yard breeding and unethical breeding is wrong, be it purebreds with papers or mixed breeds. You people need to get it through your thick skulls that a dog is a dog is a dog. It doesn't matter what people will pay for it, I'd love a foxhound pyrenees mix and I'd have to pay for it because they aren't normally found. Either way, its wrong for breeders to constantly produce puppies when there are plenty in shelters. All breeds were mutts at one point in time and people then called them wrong. Its time we learned from history, quit knocking down the breeds and start going after the breeders. If some family decided to breed a beagle and a pug whats the difference if they just breed two pugs. Same amount of puppies that the people shouldn't be breeding.

[MissysMommy]

I agree. It's plain wrong. Everyone asked me what kind of dog I wanted before I got Missy. I just said, I won't know till the dog picks me. They all looked at me funny, I just said there's a dog in an animal shelter somewhere that needs me. Lucky me I found her at the first one I walked into. People don't get it. It's not about the breed, it's the dog. I just don't know how someone can go to a breeder and spend all that money, when you can go to animal control and adopt a pooch that has as much love as Missy's brought my family. Especially the love she's given my children.

[dog_pug123]

I agree with every single one of you.

[howl4metok]

Sometimes it seems people forget how breeds evolved. Once upon a time this was bred with that because someone wanted a dog that did whatever.
It isn't like "One day God created the labrador" and that was that.
There is a reason why breeders began crossing breeds. My sister raises pugs, and the problems they have with their respiratory system and sinuses have become so common place. She likes the puggle breed because it's essentially still very much a pug, with the benefit from the beagle's airways.
Just because it isn't recognized by any kennel club (yet) doesn't mean it isn't a new and evolving breed.

What a shame anyone could be disgusted with a dog just because they're not registered with the AKC.

[howl4metok]

BTW
I wouldn't spend a dime over the necessary expences to rescue a dog. When it comes to the gas chamber at the local shelter, the gas does the same no matter the breed. Best friends don't need to cost a fortune.

[.sarah]

Sometimes it seems people forget how breeds evolved. Once upon a time this was bred with that because someone wanted a dog that did whatever.
It isn't like "One day God created the labrador" and that was that.
There is a reason why breeders began crossing breeds. My sister raises pugs, and the problems they have with their respiratory system and sinuses have become so common place. She likes the puggle breed because it's essentially still very much a pug, with the benefit from the beagle's airways.
Just because it isn't recognized by any kennel club (yet) doesn't mean it isn't a new and evolving breed.

What a shame anyone could be disgusted with a dog just because they're not registered with the AKC.

The dog breeds that we have today were originally bred for a purpose. I am against breeding in all aspects if the dogs being produced are not being produced for working ability. What does a puggle do to work? Nothing. A companion? Yes, but there are just as many wonderful companions (puggles included) at the shelter.