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25-04-2008, 12:00 PM
a common name would stop the high prices. giving them cute names makes people want them more and will pay stupid prices rather than going to the rescue centres.
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25-04-2008, 12:03 PM
Originally Posted by megan57collies 
While I do not support the crossbreeding of any breeds and the sad fashion cross breed market.
I would not belittle any crossbreed, they are a dog none the less and should be loved as any pedigree by their owners.
Perhaps we should think up more apt names for the people that breed these dogs
good one
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25-04-2008, 12:11 PM
Originally Posted by megan57collies
Either. Anyone that crossbreeds for money or breeds with no history of the dogs and no health tests etc.
Belittle the breeders not the dogs that didn't have a say in it.
The term cross breed is fine in my book. It describes what the dog is.
I don't look at a dog and say that's a pedigree and that's a crossbreed. I say that's a "whatever breed it is" or that's a crossbreed.
Both are what they are Dogs, it is people and the press that give names out. To call a dog a pavement special or any other derogatory name is to show disrespect to the dog and to be honest snobbery.
I've had a crossbreed previously (family dog, rescued) and i would find the term pavement special insulting to his memory. Deal with the problem ie, the puppy farmers and designer dog breeders (which term we should refrain from using otherwise the press will continue to use it) and not tar the poor dogs with these horrible names.
Great post Megan 57 collies.
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25-04-2008, 12:48 PM
I've got a purpose bred X breed who's far from a total straight cross who I paid about two hundred quid for a few years ago, and i've got a pedigree English Springer with a pedigree going back as far back as anyone cares to count with, excuse if this sounds bigheaded, some of the finest ESS' in that there have ever been..and i paid four hundred pounds for him.
But yknow what? They both walk the same, eat the same, fart the same, take up the sofa in the same way, lick my face in the same way, and come racing over with their whole behinds twitching and tounges out in the same way, so to me..they ain't no different from each other!
a dogs a dog in my eyes
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25-04-2008, 01:47 PM
Originally Posted by Luke
...or alternatively you could give what I do a try, and call um all dogs!
I've got a purpose bred X breed who's far from a total straight cross who I paid about two hundred quid for a few years ago, and i've got a pedigree English Springer with a pedigree going back as far back as anyone cares to count with, excuse if this sounds bigheaded, some of the finest ESS' in that there have ever been..and i paid four hundred pounds for him.
But yknow what? They both walk the same, eat the same, fart the same, take up the sofa in the same way, lick my face in the same way, and come racing over with their whole behinds twitching and tounges out in the same way, so to me..they ain't no different from each other!
a dogs a dog in my eyes
We don't love our pedigrees because of their breeding do we? We love them becasuse of their characters, and that applies to any other dogs. They're all the same in the eyes of a loving owner.
Changing the name of a cross breed or designer dog won't make any difference. If people are stupid enough to fall for a label then there's no hope for them anyway
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25-04-2008, 01:59 PM
Originally Posted by hectorsmum
well i thought it was a bit of fun.
a common name would stop the high prices. giving them cute names makes people want them more and will pay stupid prices rather than going to the rescue centres.
I did come across an article on a South African who offered lots of money for a new designer minature poodle. It was supposed to be a joke as it was a clipped sheep, but he still wanted it.
It's all about vanity I think, with lot's of money apparentely comes little brains.
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25-04-2008, 02:36 PM
I thought it a bit of fun i've had cross breeds one of which we called a heinz as he was bit's of everything,.I will not be drawn into a row. over this
maybe a lighter sense of humour is needed sometimes.Pavement specials well we all know what it mean's, and calling them a crossbred or a sprocker or a doodle doesn't make any diffrence they are still bitza's or crossbred's and it doesnt mean they are loved any the less after all they are still dog's.
The price of a sense of humour sometimes.
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25-04-2008, 03:06 PM
Originally Posted by zoeybeau1
I wasn't belittling the dog's
I thought it a bit of fun i've had cross breeds one of which we called a heinz as he was bit's of everything,.I will not be drawn into a row. over this
maybe a lighter sense of humour is needed sometimes.Pavement specials well we all know what it mean's, and calling them a crossbred or a sprocker or a doodle doesn't make any diffrence they are still bitza's or crossbred's and it doesnt mean they are loved any the less after all they are still dog's.
The price of a sense of humour sometimes.
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