mizzy_dizzy
Well-Known Member
Most responsible breeders of pedigree dogs wouldn't cross breed ,
Most people with pedigree dogs if they check the paper work will see they are not supposed to bread with anything but another of the same breed and Kennel club ,
Puppy farms make big money on sticking a label of a "designer dog " 0n mixes , some believe that is where the trend first originated ,
Before they got cute marketed titles they wear mixes and worth a fraction of the price.
Hate puppy mills ,
but u do need to know and try to find out where your dogs came from.
Im Not being a pure breed snob here , there are huge health issues with almost all pedigrees ,
We have a pedigree , sib husky ,
Also have 3 non pedigrees a malamute we adopted she probably originally came from a puppy mill in hungry , also have a mix dog from Germany and a very similar mix dog from a shelter here in the states ,
Who has the health issues ? The pedigree ,
We knew he was the runt , he had no testicals to we wear fine with signing that we would not breed from him we wanted a pet nothing else. he has now developed evil epilepsy ! :-/
So on the flip side there is something to be said for mixing the genetic pool every now and then,
Dogs are not different animals to each other same DNA with the same chromosomes , just been selectively breed for different characteristics ,
Most people with pedigree dogs if they check the paper work will see they are not supposed to bread with anything but another of the same breed and Kennel club ,
Puppy farms make big money on sticking a label of a "designer dog " 0n mixes , some believe that is where the trend first originated ,
Before they got cute marketed titles they wear mixes and worth a fraction of the price.
Hate puppy mills ,
but u do need to know and try to find out where your dogs came from.
Im Not being a pure breed snob here , there are huge health issues with almost all pedigrees ,
We have a pedigree , sib husky ,
Also have 3 non pedigrees a malamute we adopted she probably originally came from a puppy mill in hungry , also have a mix dog from Germany and a very similar mix dog from a shelter here in the states ,
Who has the health issues ? The pedigree ,
We knew he was the runt , he had no testicals to we wear fine with signing that we would not breed from him we wanted a pet nothing else. he has now developed evil epilepsy ! :-/
So on the flip side there is something to be said for mixing the genetic pool every now and then,
Dogs are not different animals to each other same DNA with the same chromosomes , just been selectively breed for different characteristics ,