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Originally Posted by maryeverett1  Yep! Noticed that after I hit submit! Meant to say morkies! Regardless of whether it a parti, biewer, morkie etc. They are cross breeds and not mutts! A mutt is a dog that you cannot determine a breed on! I also was bothered by the fact that breeders who do nothing else wrong but not breed standard yorkies are called unethical. It to me seems that they are all lumped with all the other devil breeders out there and that's not fair! There are pure bred yorkie breeders who breed for the money too which to me is a reason to call a breeder unethical along with ones who treat their dogs like cash cows. There are breeders of all kinds like that! But cross breeders are the only ones who
immediately are slammed for just cross breeding. There is something screwed up and off to me about using that word out of context and in the true meaning of the word! That's
all I was saying! Thanks for helping me to clear up the morkie bit!
Ps. The definition of unethical in webster's dictionary is:
"not morally correct." the adjectives associated with this word are: immoral, unprincipled, unscrupulous, dishonorable, dishonest, wrong, deceitful, unfair, fraudulent, underhanded, wicked, evil, sneaky, corrupt. No where in that list is there a word that cross breeding applies to unless the person is trying to pass off their cross breed as a pure bred!
The definition of a mutt in the dictionary is "a mongrel dog, a long haired mutt of doubtful pedigree!" cross breeds are not doubtful in pedigree |
I think what many are trying to say is if you breed the right way, with all the testing etc etc etc, that you pretty much spend a lot more money on the dogs than what you can ultimately sell them for. If you are breeding just to MAKE money, you won't be shelling out extra money for keeping them till 12 weeks, let along all the testing.
As for the breeders who purposely breed cross breeds, they ARE unethical, bc they are doing nothing to better either breed, doing nothing to help the pet overpopulation, and doing nothing for shelters and rescues that are all full already due to them not caring who gets their pups. Seriously if someone purposely WANTS a mixed breed dog, go to the shelters!
However, maryeveret, I do agree with you about the word mutt. I understand it to mean a mixed breed dog from unknown origin. But some people on here use the word mutt and cross or mixed breed interchangably. Just bc you know what two breeds a dog is, it still isn't a purbred, and thus not a breed.