Designer Breeds

[Juicy]

If your a vet and a person INSISTS that his/her dog is a puggle, what would you put as breed? I would put BEAGLE/PUG MIX. Shetlers now label cockapoos, and other designer breeds as a ''breed''. Its a good thing b/c it will attract the adoptees attention, but none the less its a Cocker Spaniel/Poodle mix. Shoot lets make up designer names for our dogs!! if my dogs ever mated (can't Pepe's neutered) it would be a Bichon Terrier or a Rat Frise. Once Didi mated with a shih tzu I had, so the pup would of been a Rat Tzu or a Shih Terrier. Why can't they call mutts just mutts!! Now purebreeds will be the mutts of today!! No one will want to adopt purebreeds, would you image that?!

 

[Mikey27X834]

They're mutts, I refuse to call them Labradoodles or anything like that.

 

[Cassiepeia]

If I was a vet, I'd put beagle/pug mix also.
I'm not a fan of shelters using the designer mutt names to try and help get them adopted. I think it sends the wrong message, that these mixes are really breeds. I do understand why they might use the names though, after all they desperately need homes for those poor furkids.

Made up names? Hmmm....I only have one dog, a Chihuahua, but if my sister's dog (a silky terrier) and my dog had pups (can't, both are fixed) they could be a Chisilky or a Silterrihua. LOL

Cass.

 

[WES]

Well I guess my dog is a...

...Sheprott. I didn’t realize I had a “designer" dog.

 

[Juicy]

Say by chance I had a designer dog like a lab x poodle, you know how dog park people are, awww is that a labradoodle? I'll say no, its a lab x poodle, no way I would be caught saying something like labradoodle, that's something my baby cousin will think of, and adults will think its cute, but me, pppfft. I bet thats how it all started someone making up a silly name and I guess it stuck.

 

[Cassiepeia]

Say by chance I had a designer dog like a lab x poodle, you know how dog park people are, awww is that a labradoodle? I'll say no, its a lab x poodle, no way I would be caught saying something like labradoodle, that's something my baby cousin will think of, and adults will think its cute, but me, pppfft. I bet thats how it all started someone making up a silly name and I guess it stuck.

Yup, it was some guy from the Victorian Guide dog Association in Australia who thought it was a cute name for them. It probably was, the first time he said it.

Cass.

 

[Becca_]

Made up names: Gracie is a Chow Chow, my daughters dog is a Pug. So we'd have PugglyChows.

 

[Sirius]

Made up names: Gracie is a Chow Chow, my daughters dog is a Pug. So we'd have PugglyChows.

LMFAO !!!

Okay, bullmastiff and bouvier des flanders ?? a bullmastiff des flandres. rottie and bullmastiff ?? Rottmastiff.

In the pet store I saw: labradoodles, and jack pugs. yuck.

 

[AmberwayGSD]

I would have MiniPinsherds.

 

[bubbatd]

The back yard breeders really started all this , though there were some legit breeders who really wanted to start new lines. Most failed, but the BWBs are still raking in the money . 40 years ago my friend laughingly called her mix a snuzoodle .... little does she know that today she would have paid $500 instead of $25.

 

[anna]

I would love to adopt a retriever/standard poodle mix, but would call it a ___/___ mix, not a doodle (silly) or mutt (sort of derogatory)

 

[tessa_s212]

Yup..I have a basenji/rat terrier..but I don't call her a basenrattie~ I call her what she is.

 

[gaddylovesdogs]

When people ask me what my mixed breeds are - I answer that they are mixed breeds. If somebody asks what Tippy is, I say, "She's border collie and German shepherd." somebody asks what Colby is? I tell them, "She's a Jack Russell Terrier mix." They're mixed breeds and that's one of the many reasons I love them.

 

[lucille]

OT, but it would be nice if someone crossed a guy with a Maytag and/or a compass so they would do the dishes once in a while and have a better sense of direction....



ps, JK..

 

[Athebeau]

I have a German Pinscher, Rottweiler, Manchester Terrier and Greyhound mixed breed at home and guess what...he is called Doberman. I had another one of these mixed breeds before and she was a Canadian and American Champion with the CKC and AKC...she was just an inbred crossbred mutt that they officially called a Doberman.

I also have 3 Tibetan Mastiff crosses which are now after years of inbreeding can officially be called a purebred Newfoundland dogs.

I also have a Mastiff mix type cattle dog which has been inbred long enough to be called a Rottweiler.

If you inbred long enough and set certain standards then most mixed breeds can officially be called a purebred dog by the kennel club standards. So, officially if these doodle breeders inbred and set a rigid standard then they can apply with the kennel clubs and these mixed breeds will then be purebred dogs.

 

[Beauceron]

That's a problem for me at my work, I work for a trainer/groomer and when we get in one of these mixes both my boss and I write Lab Poodle X If an owner takes offense we always ask what were the parents, and we always get one was a lab the other a poodle... so we just carry on called the dog a mix.

 

[gaddylovesdogs]

If the breeder is responsible and really is trying to have their mix accepted as a breed, I'm fine with it. I just don't like the idiots who breed them and try to sell them as some "exotic" and "rare" "breed". I love my mutts, they're awesome dogs and I love their looks and their temperaments.

 

[RedyreRottweilers]

MY OPINION is this:

ANYONE who is crossing breeds to sell in the pet trade can not be a responsible breeder, no matter how they are breeding dogs.

To cross a pug and a beagle, or a lab and a poodle, or a Cocker Spaniel and a Poodle, etc etc and so on and do forth ad nauseum is an insult to each breed and the caring breeders who try to breed it to keep breed type and health. There is NO REASON to make these crosses except to sell puppies in the pet trade. That is NEVER a good reason for breeding dogs.

There ARE some people in sport and working dogs who cross breeds for a REASON. This is not something I would do, but certain farm and sport dog crosses ARE done for a clear reason.

There are far too many good dogs dying in shelters each year for responsible breeders to excuse ANYONE not breeding the right way and for the right reasons.

 

[Fran27]

Athebeau the only differences (but big ones) are that those people who made dobermans and newfies did it 1) with a purpose other than making money, 2) knew what they were doing. I don't think any of these two conditions apply to any of the 'designer breeds' breeders nowadays.

On a side note, I'm not sure it would work that way anyway, because Australians have been working on a standard for labradoodles but it's still not a recognized breed, maybe because there just isn't a true reason to breed them?

 

[RedyreRottweilers]

The "labradoodle" breeding program originally begun in Australia for their leader dog program was abandoned because they could not get them to breed true.

Anyone else breeding these mixes are just hangers on. I call them pups for bucks greed breeders.