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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  The reason people made purebreds in the first place was so that the dog would be good at certain jobs, or look a certain way. With mixed breeds you're playing with many more genes, and it's harder to predict what the grown up dog will look like or its behavior traits. Anyone interested in buying mixed breeds should visit their local pound, there are many to choose from, and you can see what they will look like when full grown. Some of them are indeed beautiful, and already housebroken. I hope no one buys a mixed breed from a breeder; too many are being put to death each day. |
I'm not being mean but shouldn't that also state if one would like to buy a purebred that they should also visit the pound? As was stated by another poster there are purebreds in the shelter too. I'm not for designer dogs, and normally I wouldn't even look at one's website if they did do designer pets but for some reason I did it yesterday, and all it comes down to is the eye of the beholder and what you feel is right. Also sometimes its harder to predict the behavior traits on purebred animals. You are still messing around with the gene pool when you breed two pure bred animals together. It could take months, years to see if that was a perfect match, which I find it hard to believe that some breeders wait around that long to breed another litter if it was a perfect match. I am a person that looks for the "AH" in a puppy, but the temperament of that puppy has to be right for me and my family. I have been to dog shows and some of them are so high strung I don't know how they are shown or win for that matter.
BTW I have been to the shelter, but most of them have health problems mainly heartworms and I can not take a pet on with such problems as that. As I am sure that others feel the same way when they go to one. When you buy from a breeder at least you get a little piece of feeling like you might get a non-aggressive, healthy pet. But dogs are like children, you don't know what weak genes they might have. My son has asthma, where did that come from? My husband nor I have asthma, but someone did most likely. Also I have a lost of hearing and do have to wear hearing aids, doctors stated mine is hereditary but no one knows from where.
Hope I didn't offend anyone
