I think your missing the point, would you be so kind as to tell me where I said to pay an "outrageous Price for a mutt".  I said you could find a RESUCE OR SHELTER labradoodle, which will have THE SAME PRICE AS ANY OTHER DOG AT THAT RESCUE.  I offered a suggestion and you are trying to stab me with it.  If I would have said "Labrador and Poodle mix would you have felt better? huh? Because I didn't use the "designer dog name"  And of course You can't know the exact traits ( I know that, I have a Schnoodle and Know Quite alot about designer dogs, thank you.)  How could you know the exact traits?  Most designer dogs are F1 generations.  However, over time, the generations would come to a standard. If you'd like to get technical, the only true purebreds are wolves.  THE EXACT SAME WAY THEY BREED THESE CROSSBREEDS NOW IS THE SAME WAY YOUR LAB WAS MADE.  keep that in mind.

       

"You listened to the rumors, and passed a lie.  Because of your ignorance, I had to die"
- "pitbull"

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My point being is that we don't want a "mutt" for our grandfather because we want to know the traits it will carry in the dog. So why would I want a so called "designer dog?" That makes no sense. My point was to make you see, just because it got a fancy name over it doesn’t mean that you will know the traits will display. If I wanted a mutt or in your words "designer dog" I would have already planned on getting a shelter dog that was a mutt.

Purebreds are different then "designer dogs" because they have been bred down from generation to generation to get the right traits every time. Meanwhile, it doesn't matter to me what you say, designer dog of lab/poodle mix, it is still a mutt. If I was dissing or disliking your designer dogs, it’s not because they are mixed. I am tired of people trying to push their mutts into purebreds by a fancy name.

We should stop arguing about this, we all decided it will be either Shetland, or some sort of spaniel which I need help in deciding. I would explain more but I am to tired to. It is nearing midnight.

----------- Sandy my 1 year old labrador-----------

I or anyone I know for that matter classifies a designer dog as a purebred.  I say Schnoodle so people know my dogs heritage. To me there are three types of classifications

1) purebreds

2) mixed breeds ( I do not prefer the term "mutt")

3) Crossbreeds.

What I am tired of Is people telling me I have a "mutt" in a disgustful way.  And it's not just on the internet either.  I had a garage sale awhile back and a man asked his breed. I said Schnoodle.  And he went off on me on how my dog was "an overexpensive good-for-nothin mutt".  If 1 thing that gets my feeling hurt and my blood boiling it is this topic right here.  In my eyes, a mutt has unknown ancestry.  A crossbreed of two purebreds doesnt.  It all comes down to definition.  I paid a measly $100 for my dog, yet people still call my dog an overpriced mutt.  Well HE isn't.

"You listened to the rumors, and passed a lie.  Because of your ignorance, I had to die"
- "pitbull"

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also i didnt mean the lessons were 150 for each lesson, but 150 for all 8 lessons

shelties rule!!!

I don't care how much your dog did or didn't cost. I am sure the guy wasn't saying that you paid a lot of money for the dog, he was stating a clear fact that "designer dogs/mutts" are over priced. You shouldn't get upset at that fact. I would never call a designer dog a "purebred" and I know others will back me up when I say they are just "mutts" with a fancy name. What makes me mad is after I said that I didn't want to debate this anymore because we don't want to get my grandfather a "MUTT" you keep debating it. Yeah, all purebreds come from crossbreeds but they haven't been bred from generation to generation to be one complete breed. I wish you would get that, "mutt" is not anywhere near a bad or hurtful word. Your dog is a mutt, you can doodle it all up all you want with fancy names but the fact remains no matter what, your dog will always remain a "mutt." Now with that said, Outcast, could you please stay off of this topic, I don't want you hijacking it anymore with foolish nonsense and getting off topic. I already explained why we are not getting a mutt and that includes your so called "designer dogs" because they are mutts.

Rainsmom: $150.00 for eight weeks seems kind of cheap. What state are you from? I’m from Pennsylvania. Do they charge sales tax on training? I know my grandfather would like a Shetland, they remind him of a smaller version of "lassie." Now could you tell me what would be the downside to a King Charles and a Brittany compared to a Shetland?

----------- Sandy my 1 year old labrador-----------

Sorry no, I will  Not stop "hijacking it with anymore foolish nonsense".  When somebody says this, thats a good reason for me to keep going.   I am Not saying foolish nonsense YOU started this w/ your "overpriced mutt" nonscence after I politely said "I know this isn't a purebred, but A Rescue Labradoodle would be good".  And I already said the word mutt I consider disrespectful, Yet you just used that word to describe my dog!! And I don't care if you get someone else to "back you up".  You do that.  I KNOW for a fact the dog community generally frowns upon Designer dogs, and I don't care what they say.  I will still call my dog a crossbreed, thats all there is too it.  I am proud to say That I have a Schnoodle and I have a designer dog, and I wouldn't have it any other way.  I would have paid $3000 for him if I had too! 

       

"You listened to the rumors, and passed a lie.  Because of your ignorance, I had to die"
- "pitbull"

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