And what is so sad is that people like celebrities promote the popularity of these "designer" dogs and people buy them up for Christmas and other gift giving occassions. Once the novelty wears off, these poor animals are abandoned and left homeless. :(

:yeahthat:

Really??????

Our shelter in the somewhat large town that I live in (400,000) appears to be the opposite of what many of you are describing.

They rarely has small mixed breeds. In fact, many people go there regularly hoping to find one. And, these people (let's be thankful for them) are definitely not looking for purebreds. They just want a "small dog" -- often because they are elderly and need to be able to lift their dogs or live in apartments, etc. There is not doubt that more people are looking for smaller dogs these days.

And alternatively - our shelter does, indeed, have a lot of purebreds. I can't count the labs and golden retreivers I have seen there....plus numerous other purebreds.

As far as breeding a Maltese and Yorkie - many of you here have small mixed breeds and love them to death. I have seen some that I would give an arm and a leg for. Our world is full of mixes and purebreds and always will be. I think the important thing whenever we deliberately have any litter of pups is that they will be happy, healthy, well taken care of, and go to loving homes.

So - I'm going to take the opposite stand and say that little mixed breeds are on the top of my list for being wonderful little pets. I have two purebreds - but if I had encountered a little Maltese/Yorkie mix while I was looking for my pup - it might well be with me right now.

Carol Jean

This thread is about mixing a Maltese with a Yorrkie, right...Then, it moved to what breeds were combined to make up Yorkies. How did this turn into a Biewer Argument..Well...I need to stay away from these threads I get so confused :rolleyes: :confused:

I was told that yokie/maltese look just like yorkie's

:rolleyes: :confused:

disscusions
 

disccsions lead to different topics atleast i have always seen it that way.

Baiting, it's the new trend on YT.

what
 

what so you mean baiting no one was baiting anyone here.
it was asigle question that led to ten others that is all.

Who was arguing? ...smells like bait to me :thumbdown

Irene
 

hey Irene you must be the one baiting here , Quote that is why a biewer is a biewer NOT a yorkie.

you brought that up not me. so dont get ahead of yourself here.

This is laugable! and not very nice!

This thread pertains to breeding for designer puppies...is it responsible breeding? imo no...but there are many breeders and pet buys that tend to graviate to these designer breeders and we can not stop them.

My thought is why breed and mix when you have two purebred dogs? Why not wait and breed responsibly, like to like?

Whether its true that maltese is in the Yorkshire Terrier background or not...doesnt make breeding the two right!

PS it is also speculated that a Biewer has been bred with a Maltese!

JMHO

by the way
 

well actually how this lead to so many different subjects is because everyone said that a yokie/maltese was a mut and i heard that to get a yorkie ,a maltese was breed with some other terreir's along the line somwhere

then Irene ( Yorkierini ) is the one who brought up beiwers . NOT me or anyone else She did and now she is saying bait well she was part of it to then.

Huh? Well I wasn't trying to bait..take if for what you will.

PY on the mentioned arguing. There wasn't an argument. Her statement is what I consider bait. I didn't mean you...if that's what you thought :confused:

i wasnt
 

i am sorry again i was just trying to point out that discussions lead to other topics as well i was just trying to get some opinions on here sorry for that too i guess.