Captainron
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Our Patterdale Terrier couldn’t go to crufts. All those other dogs would be too much temptation to run around and cause trouble/have fun.
Crufts.
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Imurg
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Isnt that what "real" dogs are supposed to do.....?
Jacko_G
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Dogs are great loyal companions.
Don't understand the need for Crufts and the like where owners show off inbred "perfect" animals.
Don't understand the need for Crufts and the like where owners show off inbred "perfect" animals.
Pin-seeker
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The mother in-law’s got one.
It’s a pain in the arse.
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
Agree. Should have Ruffts for all cross breeds...
what would be the point you would just end up with the same thing and don't crufts now allow some of then cross breeds in now, cockerpoo's and the like?
AmandaJR
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Love this!
ScienceBoy
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The coverage quality is the dogs dinner
fundy
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15 mins of Staffies (some are crosses too) ??????
Smiffy
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Advice is not to bend over in front of it
Pin-seeker
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backwoodsman
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As an aside, as regards dogs like cockerpoos, and labradoodle dandies (or whatever they are called) - when did we stop calling them mongrels? And indeed, start charging a fortune for them? Just asking ...
AmandaJR
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Designer dogs - cross-breeds basically. Apparently the guy who started with the Labradoodle regrets what he started. I think his purpose was a genuine one in terms of casting and allergies. The money charged for a labra-cocka-poo-puggle-buggle is baffling.
I'm biased though. Labs and rescue all the way for me.
Fade and Die
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When people started calling them “designer dogs” and they become more desirable than “pedigree” dogs.
I mean it’s not too different from how pedigrees came about is it? People want a specific trait in a dog so they breed the dog and bitches that are strong in this trait. Same thing with this new wave of hybrids, people want the personality of a Labrador or golden retriever etc with the hypo-allergenic low moulting trait of the poodle. Hence poodles getting a lot of “action”
AmandaJR
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Just watching the agility before we head off to class. Daisy is watching so hopefully learning too!
We’ve got a cockapoo and he’s a little git but he’s adorable and so funny.
AmandaJR
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Oopsie. Watching the Good Citizen display and right in the middle a black lab has a poop!!
drdel
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As an animal/dog lover I hate what the search for so-called show animals/dog attributes has done to animal/dog health. All disguised by apologists in the search of the 'perfect' features. In my opinions in-breeding to deliberately emphasise 'features' that can cause premature blindness, breathing issues and bone deformation is a form of cruelty.
Look what inbreeding did for the royals in past centuries !!
Look what inbreeding did for the royals in past centuries !!
Also look at what inbreeding has done in Norfolk!
Trouble is this is compounded by the demand for these designer breeds. Pugs, french bulldogs ect. Snck is a small place and even out on our walk this morning all we passed were carpet rats pugs and Frechies..its alarming whne you see old photo's or paintings of certain breeds and you see how much they have changed in 100 or so years. Happy to say the Breed we have , German Shorthaired Pointers are unchanged in 150 years.
