Comments on: What’s The Deal With Hybrid Dogs? http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/653/whats-the-deal-with-hybrid-dogs/ by K9 Magazine, the lifestyle magazine for dog lovers Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:14:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kris http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/653/whats-the-deal-with-hybrid-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-20733 Kris Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:28:52 +0000 http://www.dogmagazine.net/?p=653#comment-20733 I'm fine with the development of a new breed for a purpose, like the idea of a service dog for allergy sufferers. I can see how this breed could be refined using the best service dogs, resulting in dogs that are predictably good at being service dogs and also predictably have a non-shedding coat. Creation of a new breed takes a lot of commitment, though, and it's going to be very hard with this cross already having become popular. I am not okay with the breeding of dogs solely as pets. A good breeder is aspiring to something--they should want to make better dogs (health-wise, performance-wise, behavior-wise, appearance-wise), not just produce "nice pets" for sale to the public. You can get a nice pet anywhere. Go to the animal shelter and you'll find a lot of nice pets that were just discarded, many for no reason at all or for reasons that are easy to correct. People who breed dogs to sell as pets for exorbitant prices really have no place in the dog fancy. And people who do that with mongrel dogs are perhaps even worse, because they're ripping people off. No mongrel, "designer" or not, is monetarily worth more than a few hundred bucks unless it's a fabulous working dog. Don't think I am being down on mongrels--the world has many fine mongrels and in fact many are fantastic pets or better at their working duties than most kennel club purebreds are. I just don't think people should be breeding them on purpose unless they are really aiming to produce something they can't get easily from existing breeds, something besides a good family pet. Good family pets are so common they die every day in shelters due to not enough homes being available. I’m fine with the development of a new breed for a purpose, like the idea of a service dog for allergy sufferers. I can see how this breed could be refined using the best service dogs, resulting in dogs that are predictably good at being service dogs and also predictably have a non-shedding coat. Creation of a new breed takes a lot of commitment, though, and it’s going to be very hard with this cross already having become popular.

I am not okay with the breeding of dogs solely as pets. A good breeder is aspiring to something–they should want to make better dogs (health-wise, performance-wise, behavior-wise, appearance-wise), not just produce “nice pets” for sale to the public. You can get a nice pet anywhere. Go to the animal shelter and you’ll find a lot of nice pets that were just discarded, many for no reason at all or for reasons that are easy to correct.

People who breed dogs to sell as pets for exorbitant prices really have no place in the dog fancy. And people who do that with mongrel dogs are perhaps even worse, because they’re ripping people off. No mongrel, “designer” or not, is monetarily worth more than a few hundred bucks unless it’s a fabulous working dog.

Don’t think I am being down on mongrels–the world has many fine mongrels and in fact many are fantastic pets or better at their working duties than most kennel club purebreds are. I just don’t think people should be breeding them on purpose unless they are really aiming to produce something they can’t get easily from existing breeds, something besides a good family pet. Good family pets are so common they die every day in shelters due to not enough homes being available.

]]> By: emm http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/653/whats-the-deal-with-hybrid-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-18213 emm Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:21:16 +0000 http://www.dogmagazine.net/?p=653#comment-18213 well selectivly crossing breeds to fix any inherent problems is not a bad think if it is done after we have sorted the shelter crisis well selectivly crossing breeds to fix any inherent problems is not a bad think

if it is done after we have sorted the shelter crisis

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