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Originally Posted by renee6645  I'm not debating anything but truly want to have a better understanding of this issue. NO ONE gives free puppies. Whether it is pure-bred or a mix, there is always (almost always) a fee attached to owning a new pup. Why do breeders of pure-breds get a pass on that while breeders of mixed puppies are labeled as "making money off the puppies"? Everyone has the same expenses attached to breeding I suppose (vet bills, etc...) No? |
Up until about 10 years ago, these so called "designer dogs" actually were given away free on the side of the road in front of Wally World, as they were considered "oops" litters. No one is giving pure bred breeders a free pass. In fact, many of them are breeding for exactly the same wrong reason as the the ones who purposely cross breed- $$$. There is no end goal of improving the lines or strengthening the breed. A truly reputable breeder whose goal is to improve the line is not making money off of their litters. They are spending far more than they bring in between vetting, testing and showing.
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Originally Posted by autumn_girl Keeping in mind that I never said anything about purebreds being mutts, I just pointed out that in order to create a specific breed you mix other breeds. Thus using the Yorkie as an example. Especially since no one knows exactly what Yorkies are mixed with, they just have a general idea.
I guess it just depends how everyone looks at it. I myself don't have a problem with mix breeding, the "morkie" may be called something else in a few years, and may be an even better breed than that of the Yorkie and Maltese themselves. I just think that people who want a mixed breed should research what people already know about that breed, and that of the two it's mixed with.
To each their own. |
The original breeding to get what we consider "pure breds" was done very carefully in order to select and develop specific traits. It was also more than two breeds brought in to the mix. Records were kept and the crosses were bred to each other to further develop the lines. That's not happening with today's trend. You don't see these people breeding mix to mix because they know that they have zero control of what the outcome will be. They continue to take a pure yorkie and a pure maltese to create these "hybrid" dogs. Why? Because someone came up with the cutesy name "Morkie" which sounds a whole lot nicer than mutt.
I'm not knocking mixed breed dogs. 2 out of the 4 in my house are mixes and both of them came from rescues. What I do knock is people jumping on the "let's make a quick buck by throwing two dogs together to see who we can sucker" band wagon. I think it's very fair to say that you won't be seeing many of these breeders 10 years down the line because they will have moved on to the next quick buck trend.