I have never said I have anything against people buying a mixed breed from a responsible breeder. Having spent a good part of my life working in SPCA shelters (my father was a Chief Inspector, my mother a Shelter Manager) I'm extremely familiar with the challenges around adopting these rescued dogs out to the right homes. Most people walking in to adopt a dog from a shelter are not aware of the time, effort and patience it may take to properly retrain the pet. Thankfully now most shelters foster out special needs animals before they are put up for adoption.
In many cases people are better off buying a puppy from a responsible breeder instead of adopting from a shelter.
What I have a problem with is this mass production of the flavour of the month puppy with little regard to the special needs that these breeds may have. By that I mean being up front and honest about grooming requirements. You can't mix a maltese and a yorkie together and expect to get a dog with a manageable coat. So people by these morkies, porkies, chorkies, etc not having a blessed clue what they are getting into. On the other hand, if people are going to seek out a purebred they usually have some idea of what they are getting and why they want it. Try doing research on a morkie. Good luck, what you are going to find is a pile of dribble with little or no real data to substantiate their claims. Now if that's what you want to pay thousand of dollars for so be it. |