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Designer Breeds
What is a designer breed? Breeds like schnoodles, labradoodles, etc, are what are called the designer breeds. But what exactly these dogs are is basically a mutt that's selling for outstanding amounts. It frustrates me to no end. What's happened is, lot of money hungry people have realised they can make money from these mixes and the extent this has gone to is ridicilous. So lets start at the begining. A breeder, maybe a better name would be a money hungry person, gets a couple of purebred dogs,breed puppies from them, give them some stupid name and either sell it themselves or to pet shops. The sad thing is these dogs that have the pups, are bred every season, usually kept in appalling conditions, and once can't breed are put down. There is a heap of these places which are run as a sole business, where there are huge number of dogs involved. The owners are only after the end product, and that's a lot of puppies. One of the bad things about these 'mutts', is the media has made them out to sound like they are the best thing around. The fact is, when you mate two different breeds, making claims like ' they will be alergy free' is just so far fetched. Genetics are never that predictable, even when you have many years and generations of experience, you can not still predict the outcome. It's basically the role of the dice. When crossing dogs to poodles in an attempt to make them allergy free, there is no way you can guarantee the litter will be that. If you're lucky, you might get a 30% of the pups to be that. But even then, you'd need to test them all to know for sure. And what about the fur factor? A poodle doesn't shed like normal breeds, they need to be clipped on a regular basis or the fur gets full of knots. Their fur is like our hair, it keeps growing. Can you imagine what would happen if the dogs weren't brushed or clipped? I am pretty sure most of the poodles these 'farmers' breed from are not well looked after. So what about the pups? What fur type will they have? Again, it's a roll of the dice, you won't know till the pup is an adult. Getting a dog clipped regularly is a big expense. But that's just one thing. What about all the other problems poodles, labradors, spaniels, schnauzers, etc have? Do you really think these people test the dogs for any of these problems? If they did, their profit would be nil, they'd be making a loss. So these dogs are not health tested and they don't care what the temperment of the parents are. As long as they produce, they keep them breeding. These pups are usually taken at an early age, even though the shops are not by law allowed to sell under 8wks old, it has and is being done. The public don't know any better and buy a young pup thinking they're doing the right thing and buying a good pup, when in fact that couldn't be further from the truth. People see a cute puppy in the window and take it home, only months down the track to discover it's not fitting in with the family and so they rehome it, usually end up in pounds. It's a horrible thing, so many dogs are dumped in pounds and such a small percentage get rehomed. Most of them get put down without even getting a second chance. The pounds were all ready over loaded, and now with these new purposly made mutts, it's going to be worse.
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