[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: designer dogs
- From: "Cyndy Davis" <cyndyinseattle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pmick@xxxxxxxxx, Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:57:57 -0700
My favorite designer dog is the Parson Russell/Border Collie mix - I can't
remember what they call them, but they are bred for flyball. I cannot
imagine all that intelligence combined with energy and stubborn terrier
mentality in one package.
Nightmare!!!
:)
Cyndy
>From: Peggy <pmick@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: pmick@xxxxxxxxx
>To: showgsd <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] designer dogs
>Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:24:26 -0400
>
>For those of you who get the National Geographic channel, it's been
>running a one hour program called "Designer Dogs." I watched it this
>morning........what a good program. They had a quick comment from Peter
>Green, and thee were several sessions with Alan Resnick, editor of Dog
>Fancy magazine, as well as other names and faces that are associated
>with the purebred dog world...but themajority of the program seemed to
>be devoted to an Australian breeder of Labradoodles...at one point the
>commentator said this woman breeds 50 litters a year......
>she exports all over the world at $2500 a pop...one part of the program
>was her shipping a labradoodle to a family in Pittsburgh, PA, and it
>showed the people going to the airport to pick up the dog, and more.
>This woman in Oz has been breeding labradoodles for 20+ years and they
>seem to be rather standardized except for size...apparently they come in
>a few sizes, and you don't know for sure what size you'll get till
>they're born.
> The reason given for all these poodle crosses is that the offspring
>are supposed to be hypoallergenic. OK, if they are, that's
>great.......but you know they aren't. So where do they end up?
> There was a portion of the program devoted to the most ferocious
>guard dogs, the Caucasian something or other, a breed adopted by the
>Russian army because it is naturally so aggressive that it puts Dobes,
>Rotties, and all other breeds to shame...........
> Also to the miniature Husky (I can't remember the name of those, but
>those REALLY look mutty) and some time to wolf-dog hybrids.........which
>everyone except some woman inNew England said should never be kept as
>pets. The New England woman has a dozen or so and admitted on TV that
>she is living illegally, but if the animal control people got after her,
>she'd move. (Wolf-dog crossbred dogs are against the law in many states.)
>
> Anyway...if you see the show coming on in your area, and can't watch
>it, set your VCR to record it. It was really an interesting program...I
>will watch parts of it again.
>
> I do understand how new breeds are developed, etc., but those
>labradoodles looked like mongrels..yes, alike, but mongrels. I sort of
>agree with what Peter Green said "there are already over 150 breeds, why
>do we need more?" Of course, I paraphrased his words..but that was his
>point. Mine too, especially when one considers the number of onerous
>laws being passed all over the country...and now we have people paying
>big dollars to import mongrels from the other side of the world? EEEK!
>Peggy
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