Pet Lovers

[goldensrbest]

My very first golden was from a person that lived down the street,byb,i knew nothing back then about health clerences,early  80's,jamie got bone cancer at 8 yrs,plus hip replacement at 9 months,come to find out ,3 of the others from that litter died also., and all 4 had bad hips.

[goldensrbest]

@fairydogmother , Yes resuces make it so difficult to rescue.

[Kachina624]

Thay aren't my cup of tea.  Another name for them is "mutt".  If one wants a mixed breed dog, go to the pound and adopt one instead of paying a backyard breeder umpteem dollars. 

I love the beauty and predictability of a pure-bred dog but I've had my share of wonderful mixed breed rescues.  In fact, my Misty is just about the perfect dog.

[fairydogmother]

@goldensrbest 

Friends of ours went to the Tampa Bay Humane Society shelter to adopt. Its on a first come first serve basis. So the line forms hours before the place opens. They literally stood in line for two hours. By the time they reached the head of the line, the dogs they had been interested in were already spoken for. All that were left were large pit mixes. 
there must be a better way. 
My first Golden Retriever experience was similar to yours. I was a divorced mom looking to get my first dog. Had I known or done any research, I would have walked away from that litter. But we had our sweet girl for twelve years, flaws and all. 

[fairydogmother]

Look at her sweet beautiful face. Must. Kiss. 😘

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@Kachina624 wrote:

Thay aren't my cup of tea.  Another name for them is "mutt".  If one wants a mixed breed dog, go to the pound and adopt one instead of paying a backyard breeder umpteem dollars. 

I love the beauty and predictability of a pure-bred dog but I've had my share of wonderful mixed breed rescues.  In fact, my Misty is just about the perfect dog.

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[geezerette]

A lot of breeds that are considered "classics" now were once crossbred from other breeds themselves.

To me it's not the mere breeding of different breeds, it's whether or not it's being done responsibly.  

[fairydogmother]

Now Im all worked up. 😆 but the topic of irresponsible breeding gets to me. My 16 yr old grandson lives with his mom and stepdad. They have no ****** sense when it comes to dogs. They like Boston Terriers. Their last one ran away and got hit and killed by a car. They don't have a fence nor do they keep a dog leashed. So they got a new dog from the same backyard breeder who puts out money maker Bostons in mostly non approved colors. My grandson and fam says they are special exotic colors. 😒🙄

They also don't spay or neuter. So their male is free to roam around impregnating vulnerable females. Now, they have added a little female (same "breeder"), who just had her first heat and is pregnant by their male dog. They pretended to be upset for a minute, but then brag about what a beast and a stud their dog is. 
Absolutely nothing I can do or say. Multiply this family times thousands and that's why dogs get neglected, abandoned, overbred, run over and worse. 

[CamilleP]

No matter if one is breeding purebreds or crossbreds, the motive is the decider.  If you are doing it to make money, you are in it for the WRONG reason!  Sadly, "designer" breeds were primarily "designed" to make money, so by and large, I don't like them.  I don't blame the dogs themselves, of course, I pity them, because odds are they are going to suffer a large number of preventable genetic disorders.  The breeders of designer breeds are not starting with healthy, typey, good-tempered examples of their different breeds as foundation stock, because no good breeder of purebreds lets puppies go to people who are going to cross-breed.  So if you have puppy mill purebreds as foundation stock, you are going to get crossbreds with puppy mill diseases, guaranteed.

BTW, the term "hybrid vigor" these people use, is not even used in animal sciences breeding discussions any more, it's an antiquated and disproven theorum.  If you cross breed a Jersey bull to a Holstein cow, you do not get a female calf that grows up to produce Holstein volumes with Jersey milkfat content (that would have been the best of both worlds), you get Jersey volume with Holstein quality-the worst of both worlds.  Sometimes you wind up somewhere in the middle, but it's never "better" in any way than either parent breed.  So don't buy into "hybrid vigor", any "designer dog" breeder that uses that term is ignorant in the extreme and just trying to make a buck by bamboozling the puppy buyer.

[fairydogmother]

@CamilleP 

Thank you for this a million times ❤️

[NickNack]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

Thay aren't my cup of tea.  Another name for them is "mutt".  If one wants a mixed breed dog, go to the pound and adopt one instead of paying a backyard breeder umpteem dollars. 

I love the beauty and predictability of a pure-bred dog but I've had my share of wonderful mixed breed rescues.  In fact, my Misty is just about the perfect dog.

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@Kachina624   What la beautiful, sweet face!  I love her.