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Re: Why against cross breeds?
From my experience
Its around a 99/1 split of bad vs good breeders of mongrels
and a 70/30 split of bad vs good breeders of pedigrees
There is still thousands of badly bred pedigrees out there, some registered with the kc (because some members of the public think registration = health), some just raised en masse in puppy farms.
What i never wanted to see was mongrels being produced en masse in puppy farms because they are currently a fashionable hot comoddity. Noone who cares deeply about their dogs would want to see one who has come from a PF.
Unfortunatly with the bad (and sometimes deserved) press that the registered pedigree world has recieved, and the misinformed attitudes of unresponsible mongrel breeders, then the mongrels have grown in popularity. Demand outstrips supply for cute little mongrel pups. Therefore the demand is now being supplied by irresponsible breeders and puppy farmers. NOONE here surely wants that?
Any dog bought from a rescue centre is unfortunatly often considered inferior to a dog bought from a breeder. Buying a dog from a breeder intimates purposeful healthy breeding, well raised stock of good temperaments. Unfortunatly this is too often not the case. There is no difference in homing a mongrel puppy from a rescue centre as buying one from an unresponsible breeder. But the general public dont see that.
I know a couple of breeders of more uncommon breeds. They actually breath a sigh of relief that their dogs are not the most popular of breeds, and therefore have much less chance of ending up on the list of a puppyfarmer!
Surely we can all agree that this is whats happened? The bad press pedigrees have had, combined with the misinformed mongrel breeders giving out false information, has led to a HUGE rise in demand for these mixes. These dogs are now amongst the most popular to be produced en mass by irresponsible breeders and puppy farmers, to line their pockets!
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