What is your opinion on designer breeds?

[BC_MoM]

Totally against it for obvious reasons.

I find it funny - people are always looking for a good bargain - right?

So why do they seek out designer breeds - when they can go to a shelter or rescue and adopt a dog for 1/3 the price of a designer breed??

[lwds]

Until millions of dogs aren't dying in shelters nationwide - I don't feel more breeds should be made when there are already breeds that need desperate help that are being destroyed (my breed included) by PMs/BYBs.

But with that said, I wouldn't be against breeds that are being created to fill specific roles that other breeds couldn't fullfill (I'd love to hear what the goals are, what the job would be, and why a breed now couldn't fill that role, though). But there's no use for "Chugs" or "Maltipoos."

I'm not anti-mutt, or anti-breeding, or anti-creating new breeds - I'm anti-idiot.

[GreyhoundGirl]

I HATE them.

But please, for others sake, don't get me started.

Peace.

[Flatcoatluver]

I am against them. I hate how some owners make sucha big deal out of them, honestly their a mutt, not a rare breed. I have a cliet who was making such a big deal about her "havenese Snoodle" It gets on my nerves and their is so many designer breeds at work. Funny thing is that the breeds that they say they don't shed but they shed like any other breed.