Designer Dogs

[SparrowHawk62]

Please allow me this rant. I'm open to hear other opinions on this subject, but let's keep it civil, thank you.

Designer Dogs
This has become a growing trend lately, in my area at least. As a long time dog owner and trainer (Basic and Advanced Obedience, Agility, Fly Ball, Herding, Drug Intervention) I find this new trend alarming! I've owned a number of Pure Bred dogs, Akitas' (1 rescue), Corgis- Pem's and Cardi's, (1 rescue of each) Australian Shepard along with a few rescued Mutts. All were/are well trained and very much loved. I purposely bought these breeds for the inherited traits, protection, herding.
With all the dogs out there that are put up for adoption, wind up in various breed rescues, and are just plain given away as pets; WHY, would anyone purposely set out to breed MUTTS??? Why would anyone pay outrageous amounts of money to buy one of these MUTTS??? A Labradoodle (F-2*) for $1500, that's just plain crazy! Some of these other MUTTS are being sold for $700-$900 in some Connecticut Pet Stores.
The breeds listed below are fine all by themselves, there is NO sound reason to breed these animals together! Some of these breeding's are going to wind up with animals that are uncontrollable or just not what the new owner wants! In a case that I have first hand knowledge of: the owner of a Goldendoodle has his hands full. This is the second generation of this dog. {* A Golden Retriever bred to a Standard Poodle, it's off spring gets the classification of F-1. This dog is a Goldendoodle bred to a Goldendoodle, thus an F-2. People in the business of breeding these MUTTS state that it will take at least an F-5 breeding before this dog develops the ability not to shed!} I wonder how many first generation (F-1) animals were sold under the premise that these dogs do not shed? This particular dog acts like a young Golden, not a more reserved Standard Poodle.
The Fly Ball crowd may have started this trend. Over the years I've been involved with this sport more and more purposely bred MUTTS have been showing up on the circuit. Animals such as the Staffy-Jack, a Staffordshire Terrier bred to a Jack Russell Terrier, a crazy small dog with amazing jaw power. The Border-Jack, a Border Collie bred to a Jack Russell Terrier. Bred for the speed of a Border Collie and the size of a Jack Russell. And yes, they command the same crazy prices as I mentioned before.
I'm disgusted with the whole mess!
Here's some of the MUTTS:
Beagapoo - Beagle/Poodle Beagapoo - Beagle/Poodle Bich-Poo - Bichon /Poodle Boxerdoodle - Boxer/Poodle Cairnoodle - Cairn Terrier /Poodle Cavapoo - Cavalier King Charles Spaniel / Poodle Chi-Poo - Chihuahua/Poodle Cockapoo - Cocker Spaniel/ Poodle Doodleman Pinscher - Doberman/Standard Poodle English Boodle - English Bulldog/Poodle Eskapoo - American Eskimo Dog / Poodle Goldendoodle - Golden Retriever/Poodle Labradoodle - Labrador Retriever/Poodle Lhasapoo - Lhasa Apso/Poodle Malti-Poo - Maltese/Poodle Papoo - Papillion/Poodle Pekepoo - Pekingese/Poodle Pomapoo - Pomeranian/Poodle Pugapoo - Pug/Poodle
Saint Berdoodle - Saint Bernard/Poodle Schnoodle - Schnauzer/Poodle Scoodle - Scottish Terrier/Poodle Shepadoodle - German Shepherd/Standard Poodle Shih-Poo - Shih-Tzu/Poodle Weimardoodle - Weimaraner/Poodle Westiepoo - West Highland White Terrier/Poodle Whoodles - Soft Coated Wheaton Terrier/Poodle Yorkipoo - Yorkie/Poodle Cocabichon - Cocker Spaniel/Bichon Malti-Pom - Maltese/Pomeranian Pomchi - Pomeranian/Chihuahua Peek -A-Pom - Pekingese/Pomeranian Puggle - Pug/Beagle Yorktese - Yorkshire Terrier/Maltese