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Originally Posted by PinkMartini At the same time, some people feel it would be wrong of them TO buy a mixed breed dog when there are literally hundreds of thousands of them dying in shelters all over the country.. It's not about "Oooh a mixed dog isn't WORTH $2000," It's about "I don't want to support byb's breeding mixed breed dogs when I could save a life at the shelter and get THE EXACT SAME BREED OF DOG" Want a maltipoo? Instead of paying $2000 for one and supporting byb's, go down to your local shelter and buy the maltese/poodle mix for $100. |
Yes this is exactly how I feel... I have been to those shelters a lot and there are sooo many cute babies there. I have a lab mix, gentle as anything and brilliant with kids, a border collie mix, lots of fun.. smaller then a normal border collie, brilliant with kids and gentle as anything, and then I rescued a Jack russell cross, high strung want to kill him on a regular basis for his being naughty and then love him to bits, he yaps too much but he taught my lab to play... he is also good with kids which is important as we are going to have a skin baby within the next year or so ( if all goes well with IVF ).
I would never be able to pay $2000.00 for a dog because I I have been to the shelters and seen all the dogs there.. To me a dog of any breed is wonderful but they have to be good with children and cannot bite. After seeing all the posts on here about backyard breeders and puppymills I would think that more often then not the designer dogs are going to be from one or the other of those. My mom, who helped my nana breed poodles, believes that most of the breeders who breed more then one kind of dog are backyard breeders or Puppymills. She says and I have to listen to it, If you are breeding more then one type of dog you are in it more for the money then the dog. You cannot know all you need to know about several breeds. She would never buy a dog from any breeder who bred more then one kind.
As for the designer dogs Labradoodles being hypoallergenic, the AKC says this is not true. The AKC says they are no less likely to cause an allergic reaction then a labrador. They are cute and in fashion at the moment, much like dalmations were when 101 dalmations was rereleased and look where a lot of them ended up because people were not knowledgable about the breed.
Sorry for ranting or going off in a million directions in this post bottom line is I would only pay what the shelter charges as I would only adopt a dog from the shelter. I paid over a 100 pound for my lab cause I bought him lots of doggy stuff that day as well but his adoptions fees were something like 85 pound, I paid 75 for my border collie cause those were her costs and finally I paid 40 for the jack russel cause that was the fees at the recue centre I bought him from. Two of them came with chips and nuetering, the third one we paid for her chip, all are insured under pet insurance and only one came with his shots the other two we happily paid to get these done for. All 3 are a part of our family and well loved. But not one of them broke our bank accounts and not one of them supported a puppymill.