Comments on: What’s your designer dog from hell? Here’s mine…

By: joa82

joa82 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:22:42 +0000

Uuuhhhh I met a dalmation- stafford terrier cross once- OMG awesomest dog ever really! big black spot on his eye, walking around with some kid’s sandwich in his mouth.
Other than that though- what bugs me about crossing breeds is that some idiot goes and gets 2 “cool” dogs of various breeds, breeds them together to create a morkie or something and considers themselves a in-the-know breeder who can seriously charge $800 for a mutt. AND people pay for it! why!

By: EmilyS

EmilyS — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:06:33 +0000

I used to visit dogpark near my mom’s place in NJ. I would go offhours and let my dogs run around in the small dog area if no one else was there, and leave if anyone came. In the adjacent large dog area, a guy would bring his wolf dog. I watched this dog mature over about a year’s time from very submissive dog-like to dominant posturing (leg over back of other dog etc). I once commented to the owner, “nice wolfdog” and he replied, “oh, it’s not a wolf dog, it’s an “american indian dog”

WTF? Talk about your designer dog nightmare from hell!

By: AmandaS

AmandaS — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:20:40 +0000

Aww, nice sexism Amanda. I’m ashamed to share a name with you.

By: Original Lori

Original Lori — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:49:20 +0000

Of all the adjectives you could have thrown out, I think you probably picked the least appropriate. Not even going to address the noun.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:45:37 +0000

Wow, what a bunch of selfish bitches. Peace out.

By: francis

francis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:03:50 +0000

I didn’t believe the PSA either those years ago - I have been involved with various rescue groups and with some seemingly intelligent and influential people that have trashed breeders relentlessly (never bothering to distinguish between puppy mills, backyard breeders vs. responsible breeders) - I didn’t believe them either - what I do believe is this country needs animal control reform - and I think most people who make comments here agree with that - I read the Pet Connection to learn and I will continue to read and hopefully learn.

By: Susan Fox

Susan Fox — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:45:26 +0000

Amanda and Francis need to start their own blog.

They are not interested in honest inquiry, much less learning anything new. How they type with their fingers in their ears, singing “la la la la….” is beyond me.

And now, once again…Churchill’s definition of a fanatic: Someone who won’t change their mind and can’t change the subject.

By: Lis

Lis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:38:37 +0000

I have a rescued beagle/JRT cross who is PERFECT, and her little brother, a rescued purebred JRT became a very good little boy with a bit of patience, exercise and training. The dogs aren’t the problem, the idiots who buy designer (or any) dogs and don’t know what to do with them are. Adopt don’t shop!

I have wonderful little girl, too, a sweet three-year-old Powderpuff Chinese Crested. She came from an excellent breeder—but not as a puppy, not to me. She didn’t work out in her first home, because no screening process is perfect and produces zero errors, and was returned to her breeder, who went looking for a new home for her, and found me. She was a year old, at the height of her adolescent rambunctiousness, and because she apparently wasn’t exposed to other dogs by her original buyer, she was afraid of them. She was stressed, unhappy, scared of other dogs, scared of people—not anything like the breeder’s own dogs. An overstressed southern shelter (her temporary residence was in the south) would have quickly identified her as unadoptable, and she’d have been killed.

But she never wound up burdening the shelter system, because she had a responsible breeder, and a contract that required her to be returned to the breeder, instead of being dumped in the nearest shelter.

Responsible breeders are not the reason dogs are in shelters.

And by the way, my scared little girl is now a Canine Good Citizen and beginning her career as a therapy dog.

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:59:23 +0000

remember a few years back the well-known country/western singer Randy Travis suggested in a PSA there be a voluntary moratorium on breeding until homes could be found for those already here……..but adoption is a crucial step in the efforts toward a NO KILL NATION.

Comment by francis — June 23, 2009

In the meantime, francis, generations of work to preserve heritage breeds of dogs, including many that still do important work for us all, would be utterly and irretrievably lost.

Ethical, reputable breeders did not put pets in those shelters, and they are not displacing homes for shelter pets.

What Pai says is true: This isn’t solved by forcing purpose-bred dogs and cats into extinction.

Unless, of course, you’re like PETA and an end to the existence of ALL domesticated animals truly IS the solution you’re working towards.

I absolutely adore Randy Travis, but I don’t consider him to be any sort of expert or reputable source on how to reduce killing for population control. I’m sorry, Nor would I take his advice on many, many other issues that he doesn’t know a darn thing about.

By: Pai

Pai — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:50:14 +0000

A great step towards a No-kill Nation would be for people to stop believing that the fact dogs are born is why there are dogs in shelters. There have been plenty of research into the reasons and demographics of pet surrenders, and aside from ‘oops litters’ (unintended pregnancies) which come dead last, every other reason for relinquishment is either behavioral or economic.

http://www.petpopulation.org/