A friend of my auntie's came over to visit my gran today. She hasnt seen Zach before and asked what breed he was, she doesnt know much about dogs. I said he was a mongrel, a mix of three breeds from an accidental litter.

"Oh, well," she said "my friends have two new designer dogs, they paid £1000 each for them! They are a mix of Chihuahua and Daschund. These designer dogs are very popular now, the people who sold them to her said in a couple of years she could breed from them and make a bomb..."

Forgodsake, why are people so gullible? You attach the term "designer" to anything and people are willing to pay a grand for it!

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Did you get the breeders name and number? I would call them and give them a piece of my mind!

The kind of a person who would buy a crossbreed for £1000 is the kind that has no sense and only care about what people think of them. I bet they tell everyone the dog cost £1000.

They aren't mongrels though. A mongrel is a dog who has atleast one parent who is a crossbreed.
A crossbreed is a dog who's parents are purebreeds.

Some people have no brains and to pay so much money out is beyond me. They would be better giving a nice little doggie from a rescue a home.

Some people must really have more money than sense as the old saying goes. I paid less altogether for my three pedigree Border Collies from excellent working lines than they paid for just one of their mutts. I have nothing against crossbreeds, I've owned numerous in the past, mainly from rescue but it is beyond me why any thinks it is acceptable to breed for profit.

I always thought a cross breed was a dog from two purebred parents of differnet breeds and a mongrel was a dog of unknown origin or that has more than two breeds in it.

I hate the term designer dogs. Every dog was designed at some point, including all our now pedigree breeds but the way they use the term now just seems to be to add value to a standard crossbreed, there is little or no design involved other than thinking of a rediculous name.

Ah okay, I thought the term cross breed was for a dog born from two pedigrees of differing breed, but that "mongrel" still covered all dogs of mixed breed, be they crossbreed or multi-crossed!! I feel a lil silly now. Not as silly as that woman should feel though! £1000! Jesus...

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I may be wrong Louise, that's just my interpretation of it.

So, what silly name to they have? A Daschuahua? A chihuaschund?

I forgot to add that!! The lady (the family friend, bless her) was like "oo and they've got some fancy name, I cant remember what it was"

I was like "err was it something like chi-shund by any chance..."

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Sadly, if people are willing to pay an inordinate amount of money for a so called designer dog, then people will continue to breed them

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