Interesting quiz on "Designer Dogs"

Jas · Moderator Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 774 Location: Canada

http://www.grumpybumpers.com/dogs

My guesses were not very good!

Jas

Jamiya · Moderator Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 5593

LOL. Based on your guesses not being good, I chose the "better looking" dog as the shelter dog in all the pairs - and got them all right. Smile

hermann muenster · Member Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 304

I picked the dogs that I thought were nicer looking and got quite a few wrong.
We have a couple of stores (one is actually a gardening and nursery store!) that sell APR dogs. Most of the dogs are the "designer" (really, whatever does that mean?) breeds. I always ask them how much they want for these mixed breed dogs - Labradoodles are over $800.00!!!!
I saw a poodle/dalmation mix that was American Pet Registry and they were asking $650.00 for the pup.
I was so upset when a friend (ex friend actually) bought a shih tsu with a herniated umbilical cord for $1200.00!!!!!! They were planning to breed the dog. Thank goodness the vet swayed them (I put my 2 cents in too) to have the dog spayed. I know a very good shih tsu breeder who is barely getting $400.00 for her AKC dogs!

These stores have financing, take credit cards, and prey on impulsive uneducated consumers.

I also have a huge no kill shelter in the area - I visit often and my daughter is planning to start volunteering there this summer to help walk and clean the cages -- I have seen on more than one occasion dogs from the local doggie store that have ended up in the shelter.

tuttifrutti · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject:

I got 5 right, and it's true. They're just mutts. My mom has wanted one for forever, because she doesn't like doggy hair, but she finally listens when I say mutts now, but it took a lot of convincing, lol. My neighbors have one now. Those labradoodles and goldendoodles are insane. Between the lab and poodle or golden retriever and poodle, they don't seem to ever calm down! I work at the local vet and we board dogs, and we had a 5 or 6 year old labradoodle come in, and it was more hyper than the little 6 month old brittany puppy, which says a lot, lol.

Jamiya · Moderator Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 5593

I fostered a labradoodle once. Poor thing had been stuffed in a crate a lot, probably because her owners couldn't control her! She was about a year old and had no training at all - and hyper, hyper, hyper! I got her out and into a poodle rescue ASAP. She was a handful.

Mary_NH · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:14 am Post subject:

I must say in spite of the very infrequent fur flying posts here I posted this quiz on another dog board I participate in and oh boy did I get some fur flying there!!!! Lots of people have spent tons of $$ of their designer dogs and they saw the quiz as an attack.
I did mention how I saw this on another dog board and everyone treated it like it was - a GAME
so we are adults here LOL
I got 3 correct BTW

coppersmom · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:46 am Post subject:

Boy I stunk at that one. Confused

Samsintentions · Moderator Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 4235 Location: Texas

hmmmm scored a 71%

doglover1234 · Member Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 42

I got half of them right.

Maisey · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:44 pm Post subject:

I only got 57%...I like the idea of the quiz. Working where I work now I spend all day looking at peoples "designer dogs" and I have learned to bite my tongue and pick my words more wisely...but I still have huge issues when people come in and tell me they are going to breed that little dog with the screwed up bite, severe allergies, extremely poor conformation for any breed, awful temperment....yadda yadda. I haven't figured out what to say that will make them get it yet..if anyone does I'd like a transcript! Just yesterday a lady brought in a min pin and asked me to clip it's nails. I didn't know it was a min pin until she told me..because it does not look like a min pin! WHILE I was trimming it's nails and the dog was trying to take a bite out of me..she told me how they planned on breeding it to the neighbors Pomeranian so they could have Pom-Pins..she thought this was amusing. She also thought I was mean for putting a soft muzzle on her dog..she said "he won't actually bite you..he just pretends"..I said "if you don't mind, I'd rather not take the chance".
This folks..is why I meditate! LOL

coppersmom · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject:

That's just plain ignorance Maisey. I can just imagine a PomPin. Rolling Eyes

My dogs snap when they get their nails clipped and I ASK for them to be muzzles. If they didn't mind having it done, I would do it myself.