my family have had a mix of both cross breeds and pure breeds of good pedigree with all health checks and have had more health problems with the kc dogs than the cross breeds. I agree that there is a fad of charging very high prices for these dogs whitch should be stoped. There is a place in this world for all types of dogs as long as people do not breed ANY dogs that have health isues. I also firmly believe that any dog not intended for breeding should be neutered or spayed to prevent any unwanted pups whether they are cross bred or pure breeds, this in itself would help a little with the over population of dogs.

A friend of mine owned two cross bred dogs, he did breed from them once but only when there was many people he knew who wanted a pup and asked him if he would consider having a litter as his dogs had such a good nature, he had his dogs health checked and decided to go ahed with mating them.

All pups had homes before they were born as do many pedigree pups, and both adult dogs were spayed/neutered after, so no further litters, to me this was a well thought about mating and all pups went to good homes.

I am not knocking pure breeds as I have a 10 year old chihuahua and used to own a pedigree german shepherd who passed away 2 years ago at 11 years old, as long as it is done in the right way for the better of the breed and for temperament etc and not for money. Many breeders love their animals and do right thing by them and these are the people who should be breeding.

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