What bothers me the most is that designer dogs are NOT being sold by responsible breeders. Parents are NOT health tested, they are sold as quickly as they can come out...it's upsetting. They are sold by pet stores (puppy shops) and are a huge target for puppy mills. Although there are people out there that don't understand this, and don't try to understand. They also think they can breed cute pups and make money off it, not knowing what damage they are doing to these dogs. Then the people buying are thinking well, I spent so much money on this dog I should breed them. Thus creating a vicious cycle.

Sure, I could breed Romeo to a Lab, and pull out the cutest ones and advertise them as "speckled labs". I've often thought-haha, I wonder what that would like if I bred Romeo with ___. But, I know better, I know the damage it does. Some people really have NO clue, and act upon the impulse, or the joke. Education is KEY with things like this.

And another point to make...our current recognized breeds did not come from just a mixing of two breeds. It took many years, many dogs with certain characteristics, special breeding and culling and trying to pinpoint exactly what is needed to get a dog that would do the things we wanted.