[sabrina]

having a look at one of the other sites I use I found an add selling Pomhuhua's ( Pomeranian x Chihuahua )  £650 described as the perfect handbag dog. Would like to tell that breeder just what I think off them but I doubt it would be allowed 

[BWBorder]

I'd have no issues telling them what i think of it all - wouldn't care if i got banned from the website.
These people are a disgrace. 

Shelters and rescue centres bursting at the seems.  Dogs left on the streets, unwanted.  Battered and abused.

And they are out there breeding what can only be described as MUTTS (Don't even get me started on the price)

It turns my stomach.

[Rosemary]

What the hell is a "handbag" dog? The world's gone mad.

[xnbacon]

Last time I looked Chihauhuas were going at £1200 for a puppy - so quite cheap in comparison!!

Not my cup of tea though, I've always thought its a bit ironic that a fashion accessory type puppy can sell for so much more than a potential working dog! 

[sandy]

When my Lab has puppies I should sell them as car boot dog's I find it a very silly trend, designer dogs are just mungrels, how stupid to get such a high price from a miss match

[JulieS]

Seems to be a trend at the moment.  People doing crosses and calling them something weird.

I've started looking for another basset hound and have come across a few crosses with cocker spaniels (hush bassets apparently!),  crosses with beagles (calling them bagels!),  crosses with springer spaniels (springbats) and even crosses with sharpei (sharpbass).  They seem to want a fortune for them too!!!

I'll keep on looking for a plain basset 

[Norfolk Newby]

If you want a dog - please try the local dog pound, rescue centre or whatever you have nearby first.

I have 2 spaniels which came - at different times - from these places. Both dogs were quite young (under 2) and are lovely animals. They were badly treated to the extent that they were kept in apartments, not given exercise or a good diet (sweets mostly!). But this didn't prevent them from becoming - with a bit of attention and discipline - fairly well behaved and wonderful company.

Just a plea.

[JulieS]

I agree Norfolk Newby......My present basset was from basset hound welfare and I am on their list for my next one.  I've just been looking around at others out of interest.

I got my present basset, Phoebe, when she was 1 year old.  She had been brought from a puppy mill by some chinese people who 'didn't realise she would grow so big'. Their answer to this was not to feed her.  She was so thin she looked like a short whippet with long ears.  They were keeping her in a flat where they weren't supposed to have pets, so was carried out under a coat and had learnt not to make a sound.

We (my other basset, Wanda, and me) had to teach her how to bark and howl.  I'm pleased no one had a video camera about when I was doing that 

[sabrina]

My granddaughter was taken to the local dog home in Aberdeen last weekend. They came home with a 6 year old chocolate lab who had been put in the day before. Spice is a lovely dog but it was clear that she had puppies not long weaned and I suspect that her old owners had decided the best of her breeding years were over and got rid.

[xnbacon]

A lady near us had picked up a Dalmatian from rehoming, she had had 50+ puppies (the dog, that is), nearly died having the last litter so they decided to rehome her.  Nice.  I've yet to be convinced having a pedigree guarantees you a caring breeder or a healthy dog.

On a lighter note dalmatian x collie = dollie!!

[little blue]

Good.. lots of people think like me!
If you read the dog DNA thread, you'll know a little about our GSD. She might be a huge handful, but its not her fault its the idiots who paid a pedigree price for a dog they couldnt manage.
My mate has a rescue Cocker spaniel rescued from an Irish puppy farm, he has virtually no tail from docking and had his voice box clipped. People come up to her family in the park to tell them they're cruel cos he sounds so bad!
 I won't say anymore, in case I go to far and offend anyone

[doganjo]

I cannot possibly see how you can offend anyone by telling the truth.  It is absolutely disgusting what some people do to animals and in particular dogs. Tell it as it is!  Maybe then it can be stopped

[Unicorn]

I cannot possibly see how you can offend anyone by telling the truth.  It is absolutely disgusting what some people do to animals and in particular dogs. Tell it as it is!  Maybe then it can be stopped

I agree wholeheartedly Annie - We should tell them the truth - Shame the bu88ers

[kazschow]

Sadly the people that do these things over breed (on every season), debark, puppy farm etc can't be shamed, the dogs are a commodity pure and simple in their eyes.. legislation is the only way to change this. Unfortunately maybe I'm getting old and jaded, but I don't see the government doing ANYTHING about it, it's just "dogs" after all

[Troubled Waters]

I've always get my dogs from a rescue centre, had Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, Weimaranas, Gordon Setter, Red Setter, German Shepherd and mongrels.

If I could I'd have a whole pack of dogs. How can anyone deliberately breed these oddities. I love accidental mongrels and they have such characters.  We have also found them to be much more long lived and less health problems. 

But that is far different to creating so called 'designer dogs', who as Annie (I think it was, apologies if not) said prob don't even register, check for breed problems etc.

And have you seen how stupid some of them look? Got a labradoodle in the village, looks like the vllage idiot.  Grrrr. Makes me mad.