March 09, 2007

Mutts.
posted by some wander by mistake 17 years ago
  • Tut- poor Ms. Hurley.
  • The KC's refusal to recognize these "designer breeds" gives the phenomenon a peculiar sort of credibility, don't you think?
  • If you want a cross, head to the pound. Used to be anyone wanting to breed a dog for $$$ had to spend money to get a breeding pair of Whatsits Hounds. Hopefully, for some, that made the investment worth caring for. Now any idjut can pull a couple mutts off the street and stick them together. They die, pull two more off the street, because you're not out a nickle. Actually, it's cheaper than feeding them! Although I disagree with the AKC's policies in many ways, especially in the direction they have taken exagaterated traits such as the mushed noses that cause sinus problems, over-long backs, narrow heads, yadda yadda, the purpose of the club was to preserve many breeds that evolved for a purpose. These Puggle-poos and Peke-a-poos and Dach-a-poos and Poogles and Poo-on-the-floors will never be a breed, because people won't take the time to search out and preserve valuable traits and characteristics. They'll breed a bunch of mutts and sell them. I'm telling you, go to the pound, and you can give Fido you're own classic name: This dog, why he's a Bulgin' Nurfinhailator! Kick-a-poos and
  • whoops Snuffle-hounds! Buy 'em here, by the pound. Did you see that? The dang dog bit my post in half.
  • We think our "rescue mutt" might well be a Papillon + Pomeranian cross. We all him "a Joey."
  • Grrr. invented dog breed names - one of my pet peeves (ahah, aha, ha. hem.). The cutesy names tend to be associated with little dogs, an exception being the nice-but-dim "labradoodles". Owners of the bigger cross-breeds are more frequently proud of the complicated heritage.... The invented names don't usually predict the appearance, personality or popular pathologies associated with the breeds. What really blows me away is how much money people are willing to part with, for a Heinz-57 from a 'breeder' or a pet store (another pet peeve) , when there are so many unwanted and really great dogs at the SPCA. And for the record, from personal experience, these crosses aren't miraculously healthier than their parents. Sometimes you end up with all the worst physical and personality traits from both/all. The cynic in me believes that the real reason these invented names are created, is so that puppy mills can charge large amounts of cash for poorly bred dogs. The fluffy bunnykins in me... sorry, no, can't seem to get in touch with my fluffy bunnykins side today. Damn. My least favourites names: Pug x Boston terrier does not = Bug Shih Tzu x Poodle does not = Shitty Poo Husky x German Shepherd x Malamute x Wolf= were you stoned when you thought this was a good idea?!
  • To clarify: I'm not objecting to the crosses per se, just to the invented names. "He's a Hungarian PokeMute? and he's 16 years old, good natured, with good conformation, and free of any inherited/ familial disorders? Whoo-hoo!! where can I get one?"
  • All my doggies were mutts. Rescue dogs. Mummy-she-followed-me-home dogs. Our-dog-just-had-puppies dogs. What an entertaining bunch of doggies they were! Alfie and Sally were a brother and sister team whose Mum was a dachshund and father (?!?) a small chihuahua. They were the only two in the litter that survived. Alfie was more dachshund, Sally more chihuahua. Those 2 would take on every dog/suspicious character that came near me. Both lived past 16 years old and the only health issue was the time Alfie broke into my mums room and ate a box of chocolates (chocolates + doggies = very bad). We never paid for our dogs they just entered our lives. Nothing breaks my heart more than to go to a dog rescue home and see all those poor doggies waiting for someone to take them home and love them. That's the best way to get a cross-breed muttley!
  • yeay, the fluffy bunnykins side of my personality has been successfully recussitated! thank you gomichild!
  • My pleasure (^_^)!
  • They should start their own Krossbreed Kennel Klub. Oh, wait, maybe that's not such a great name...
  • The Mutt-O-Matic. Inspired by Berkeley Breathed's book Flawed Dogs, which is still one of my kids' faves.
  • So what does this make Barak Obama? Whack? Blite? Honkger? Whifrican American? Caucolored?
  • Fools and their money are easily parted. I'm getting another purebred and spending less than for one of these mutts. I'm breed conscious; love my GSD's.
  • Pfeh. They all lay the same.
  • Pfeh. They all lay the same.
  • My childhood dog was a purebred Lab. Awesome dog. We didn't buy him, though; he was a gift.