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Originally Posted by Britster  It's VERY sad. People just want smaller and smaller.
I was at the dog park the other day and a woman told me she got a "purebred Morkie" and then went on to tell me how unhappy she was with her and her size, because she was supposed to be "tiny" and black/tan and she looks ALL white and almost exactly like a Maltese. Yep, that's what happens when you get a mixed breed, there is NO guarantee. I just didn't really say much and asked much she weighed and she told me 7lbs... LOL. I was like, you want smaller? Mind you, she was a tiny 7lbs, like she was really skinny and stuff. Ugh! |
Ugh some people! I have a Schnorkie whom was abandoned at a pound in the dead of night in a bag with another designer dog breed, both were not the desired result of crossing. This specific pound-just outside San Francisco gets a TON of "designer dogs" dumped there. HOW SICK ARE SOME PEOPLE? Well at least they dumped him instead of worse ya know? Anywho my Schnorkie is the absolute worse possible crossing result-and I love him for it! He's 21 pounds and almost 17" tall! That's right folks he's half Yorkie half Miniature Schnauzer and the result of an F1 crossing-(a first generation crossing is called an F1)-often the genetics freak out when two lines have been purebred for so long and are suddenly crossed you get things like a mutant gene coming out or in Scoober's case the lack of the growth inhibiting gene presenting itself...he literally kept on growing, instead of being in between the size of a Yorkie and Mini Schnauzer. In color he's deemed a black and silver but has brown and white throughout and wiring like a schnauzer's outer coat, with a super thin under coat (schnauzers have a double coat). His head is small like a Yorkie and he has that Yorkie long style body with sticky legs only he lacks the long hair to hide his twigginess-he has the body of a deer! I THINK HE'S PERFECT! When you cross breeds you get funky results...the unfortunate reality of hybrids or now commonly termed "designer breeds" is the sheer amount of throw away dogs because they didn't come out as they were intended to-people like this woman are the reason wonderful blessing like my Scoobers are tossed aside...and we now have dogs termed teacup-micro mini-worse yet a market demanding dogs this size.