[faith0504]

they are fantastic photos 

[jacob and Georgina]

we have a westie x yorkshire terrier, dont know if you have seen one of these but they are lovely, ours is brindle which apparantley is very rare! she has a brilliant personality and a real character! i would recommend this cross to anybody!!

[SallyintNorth]

we have a westie x yorkshire terrier, dont know if you have seen one of these but they are lovely, ours is brindle which apparantley is very rare! she has a brilliant personality and a real character! i would recommend this cross to anybody!!

That does sound like a super cross - and hopefully the hybrid vigour overcomes the Westie's poor skin problems?  (Without which I would never be without a Westie - I have adored every one I have ever known, but would be too miserable about the itchy skin to have one of my own.)

So if a Labradoodle is Lab x Poodle, is a Yorkie x Westie a Yorkshire Highland Terrier?  Or a Westkey?  Yorkstie? 

I used to have a rescue bitzer, told people he was an East Anglian Mountain Dog.  Only about 5% of people did a double take then grinned. 

[little blue]

just 55 steps away from a Heinz 57!
Call them what you like but they're still crosses

... and make lovely dogs

[robate55]

You may joke but there is seriously a designer cross is being sold as a Norfolk Mountain Dog in Norfolk. They are a Shar Pei cross Beagle!!. I can't think how people do not think this is a  p---- take, but they don't seem to.
Rose

[princesspiggy]

designer mongrels seem to sell for a good price. our mongrel that we had as kids cost £7 but she was worth every penny. lol 

[robate55]

As puppy has just gone (last one to home) we now have 8 dogs!!
13 year collie - ex rescue & obedience competitive obedience dog
11 year collie - ex obedience dog
7 year English Springer - occasional obedience dog
6 year old collie  - works sheep but not so well since her epilepsy needing drugs
2 year old English Springers
2 nine week old English Springers

[doganjo]

Even designer dogs aren't selling just now.  A friend of mine still has 6 labradoodle pups whch should have gone at 8 weeks and are now 12 weeks, I believe one may have been sold.  I saw them a couple of weeks ago and to be honest if I'd just wanted a gundog to do picking up or beating these would have been perfect.  I've always said that a dog that looks at you all the time (it's called focus) is half way to being a top working dog (like Sandy's chocolate lab youngster, Rhum, she should be worked) It still takes time to train them properly but these pups followed us around the farm while we were getting haynets and water bucketrs for the horses, and came instanly when called to go back in their run!

[Beewyched]

We've got 4 Setters - 1 Irish bitch - Amber, 1 English bitch - Summer & 2 English Dogs (father & son) Harvey & Rupert.  Both of the girls are partly trained to beat, but are absoloutely hopeless at picking-up.  The 2 boys are hopeless, full stop - once off the lead they seem to go deaf, either that or they're so daft they forget their names 
But we still love them all & wouldn't be without them.

[doganjo]

Setters aren't meant to retrieve anyway .  They sett ( )  - similar to pointing.  well done for working them.

[pikilily]

My dog Oddy is a cross between a collie and a border terrier. A  weird sort of grey and black brindle. Every year I clip him out for the summer season because he gets so hot. A few years back I had inadvertently left a tuft on the end of his tail.  He sort of look quite cute like that.....anyway at a horse show i was constantly getting admiring comments about my unusual dog! Eventually someone asked what breed he was because they were looking for something exactly like him.


'He's a Manchurian Gerbil Hound'   

'Oh wow, thats perfect, I will look up my local breeder when i get home'

 
Emma T

[kingnigel]

You may joke but there is seriously a designer cross is being sold as a Norfolk Mountain Dog in Norfolk. They are a Shar Pei cross Beagle!!. I can't think how people do not think this is a  p---- take, but they don't seem to.
Rose

i think anyone that put norfolk and mountain in the same sentence has to be p--- taking.
kn

[littlemisspiggy!]

should be a 'sharp-eagle' 

[LouiseG]

We have 2 black labs with a little bit of collie (1/8th) in, Shadow and Echo, brother and sister age 10 and 6. Look like full labs but amazing at agility, people are surprised at their ability to twist over the jumps like collies  they don't really work but echo the girl will foster any orphan going, love it, clean it and sleep with them. Speciality is orphan bottle fed lambs in the spring, she's speyed and never had puppies but has an amazing maternal instinct. Shadow is used for any school or nursery talks we do at work (vets) he'll safely and happily lie in the middle of a class of 30 children with each child stroking a different bit of him. Worth his weight in gold.

Love them both.

[Sandy]

I've always said that a dog that looks at you all the time (it's called focus) is half way to being a top working dog (like Sandy's chocolate lab youngster, Rhum, she should be worked)

Just took 2 photos and guess who has her eye on me? She nearly always brings me some dead thing from our walks, the other day was some roasted ribs of possibly a Deer, they actualy smelt OK so not long been "poached"