What would you pay for a mixed dog?

[browniesmom622]

i just wanted to say to me theres a huge difference in a mutt and a mixed dog a mutt is mixed with so many breeds you have no idea what it is thats what 80% of dogs in the shelter are ..me personally i like to know at least one breed my dog is the mixed breed thats being breed by reponsible breeds and puppymills are 2 great breeds some of them with great backgrounds it not like there mixing mutts with mutts yes some puppy mills are doing this but not everyone breeding them are puppymills

for all of you that are saying go to a shelter if you can find a mixed breed thats still a puppy with NO health problems then i will adopt it and im sure everyone else that agrees with mixed breed would too there are not many i shouldnt have to wait for some moron that puts there dog in a shelter to make a dog apart of my home and family
anyways this is my OWN opinion

[JCarlson2004]

I also forgot to mention in my last post that (as almost everyone knows) a lot of shelter dogs have come from abusive/neglectful situations. Many people are not willing to "train" and help these dogs get over their fears. People want dogs who have not been emotionally (and sometimes physically) abused. My mom adopted a cat from my shelter and the cat was positive for feline lukemia. Plus, when she came in she had SEVERE burn marks all over her body. The vet said they looked like burn marks from cigarettes. This cat was WILD and would never allow anyone to pet her, let alone hold her. It took my parents a LONG time to help their cat come around but after about 2 years, she finally became a sweet, docile little cat. But normally a cat like that would have been euthanized because she was just too wild to be placed. The shelterd only allowed my parents to adopt her because I worked there and begged them. I just couldn't stand to see her all scared and in a cage.

Sorry that I digressed. hee hee But I was just trying to point out another reason why sadly some people do not want to adopt from shelters.

[envrobear]

I paid $350 for moose and she is a yorkie-poo (yorkie poodle mix). I wouldn't trade her for the world and the purpose mix thing really didn't bother me. I wanted a yorkie a bit bigger than Lil Bear but also loved poodles just not the pointy noses so I now have the best of both worlds.

[envrobear]

Also I first tried adopting from shelters but I have severe allergies to most dog breeds so the limits that brought made is difficult and I wasn't able to find many of the small dogs that got along with other dogs. Then I tried yorkie, bichon, and poodle rescue groups I got nothing but heartache from ALL of them. Things like "well you can't adopt because you still live at home your parents have to adopt the dog" to "oh, your 27 well you might have kids one day and you won't take care of the dog then."

It bothers me that I wasn't able to rescue a dog, but I also think if I didn't get moose she might not have sure the good life if someone else woulf have gotten her.

[KZinck]

I searched for over two years for a dog and was turned down by the SPCA and pure bred breeders because I am not home all day. It didn't matter that I was going to take 10 days off when I got him and I live 5 minutes from work and that I had arranged for mid morning and mid afternoon visits from my husband with a noon time visit from the both of us. I found a mix breed (Lhasa Yorkie) In Quebec (I live in Nova Scotia) for $499 (he is now priceless!). I flew up to get him in June when he was 11 weeks old, and we couldn't be happier. He slept the whole way home in the plane. I don't know how to attach a picture but he's just the cutest, sleeps in his carrier at night with no complaints, has been excellent at housetraining, and only barks when he plays which I was so worried I would get a "barker".

[chachi]

I think Mixed breeds are cute and would pay whatever I felt like a fair amount would be for one.

[KZinck]

http://www.fildelo.com/index.htm


I mentioned I didn't know how to attach a picture - Buddy's in the basket on the home page of where I got him in Quebec.

[klogan]

When I was originally looking for a yorkie mix, I would see them for $700-$900. I guess the expense is worth it to someone that wants the dog.

[xtine]

i payed 350 for my pomeranian/yorkie mix back in january. i wouldn't mind paying as much as i paid for my yorkie. they are still a part of my family and that's all that matters

good luck on your search

[Tauni]

Originally Posted by Esme's Mommy

Ideally, I would LOVE a yorkie mix, but I haven't found one yet. What I did find was a chihuahua/pomeranian. My mom has 2 poms and they are great dogs, and I have a friend with a chihuahua thats really sweet too. So I thought it would make a good mix... I don't know though. I can't make up my mind!

Check out this site!!! I love it!!!! Sometimes they have YorkiePoos
http://imagegallery.webspawner.com/gallery.asp

Tauni

[Tauni]

Originally Posted by Tauni

Check out this site!!! I love it!!!! Sometimes they have YorkiePoos
http://imagegallery.webspawner.com/gallery.asp

Tauni

I just went back and noticed the brown ones are yorkie poo.

[Ashantay]

Originally Posted by PinkMartini

At the same time, some people feel it would be wrong of them TO buy a mixed breed dog when there are literally hundreds of thousands of them dying in shelters all over the country.. It's not about "Oooh a mixed dog isn't WORTH $2000," It's about "I don't want to support byb's breeding mixed breed dogs when I could save a life at the shelter and get THE EXACT SAME BREED OF DOG" Want a maltipoo? Instead of paying $2000 for one and supporting byb's, go down to your local shelter and buy the maltese/poodle mix for $100.

Yes this is exactly how I feel... I have been to those shelters a lot and there are sooo many cute babies there. I have a lab mix, gentle as anything and brilliant with kids, a border collie mix, lots of fun.. smaller then a normal border collie, brilliant with kids and gentle as anything, and then I rescued a Jack russell cross, high strung want to kill him on a regular basis for his being naughty and then love him to bits, he yaps too much but he taught my lab to play... he is also good with kids which is important as we are going to have a skin baby within the next year or so ( if all goes well with IVF ).
I would never be able to pay $2000.00 for a dog because I I have been to the shelters and seen all the dogs there.. To me a dog of any breed is wonderful but they have to be good with children and cannot bite. After seeing all the posts on here about backyard breeders and puppymills I would think that more often then not the designer dogs are going to be from one or the other of those. My mom, who helped my nana breed poodles, believes that most of the breeders who breed more then one kind of dog are backyard breeders or Puppymills. She says and I have to listen to it, If you are breeding more then one type of dog you are in it more for the money then the dog. You cannot know all you need to know about several breeds. She would never buy a dog from any breeder who bred more then one kind.
As for the designer dogs Labradoodles being hypoallergenic, the AKC says this is not true. The AKC says they are no less likely to cause an allergic reaction then a labrador. They are cute and in fashion at the moment, much like dalmations were when 101 dalmations was rereleased and look where a lot of them ended up because people were not knowledgable about the breed.

Sorry for ranting or going off in a million directions in this post bottom line is I would only pay what the shelter charges as I would only adopt a dog from the shelter. I paid over a 100 pound for my lab cause I bought him lots of doggy stuff that day as well but his adoptions fees were something like 85 pound, I paid 75 for my border collie cause those were her costs and finally I paid 40 for the jack russel cause that was the fees at the recue centre I bought him from. Two of them came with chips and nuetering, the third one we paid for her chip, all are insured under pet insurance and only one came with his shots the other two we happily paid to get these done for. All 3 are a part of our family and well loved. But not one of them broke our bank accounts and not one of them supported a puppymill.

[Ashantay]

Originally Posted by Tauni

Check out this site!!! I love it!!!! Sometimes they have YorkiePoos
http://imagegallery.webspawner.com/gallery.asp

Tauni

Bah link is not working for me

[Tauni]

Originally Posted by Ashantay

Bah link is not working for me

Sorry do a google search for Halliday South Kennel. The area close to me. I have never been there, but if anyone is interested I could check them out.

Tauni

[Hickey007]

You could say that you shouldn't buy a mixed breed dog because you can go to the shelter and rescue one, but really you can say that about purebred dogs as well. I'm not saying that they have purebred dogs there, especially not ones that are registered and come from good breeders, but unless you are showing or breeding one could say that you don't need a purebred dog. Most of us here have yorkies and why did most of us get them? Because we liked the look and temperment of the breed and bottom line we wanted one. Did I need a yorkie? No. Could I have gone to a shelter and rescued a dog? Yes. But I wanted a yorkie so that's what I got. Some people want a mixed breed dog, a certain mixed breed dog and they want one in which they can go to a home and see the pups and trust the people they are getting it from. I don't think the act of buying a mixed breed dog instead of rescueing one is any worse than buying a purebred dog instead of rescueing a dog. Bottom line I don't find a problem with buying a mixed breed dog nor do I find a problem with paying whatever you want for it.
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The temperment that a rescue dog may have is another problem. I know not all dogs from shelters have problems (in fact all the ones that I've either gotten or been around that came from shelters didn't) but some people just can't risk it. The point was made that some people aren't willing to train these dogs but to take that a step further some people don't know how and can't train these dogs. Also some people may have children in their homes and ideally shouldn't have a dog with problems in their home.