'Trendy Cross Breeds'

It's about time that the tax man got involved with this as well me thinks as there are a lot of people out there mis selling cross breds as pedigrees and making an absolute killing out of it. Blimey at that rate you'd make more money than dealing drugs !!!
 
KarynK said:
It's about time that the tax man got involved with this as well me thinks as there are a lot of people out there mis selling cross breds as pedigrees and making an absolute killing out of it. Blimey at that rate you'd make more money than dealing drugs !!!
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I have done, and gotten some results ;) .All you need do is send in a few pages of your local add mart type paper, along with a little note and a few sums:rolleyes:
 
CAYLA said:
I have done, and gotten some results ;) .All you need do is send in a few pages of your local add mart type paper, along with a little note and a few sums:rolleyes:
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OK, hands up all those who just for a second thought Cayla had been resorting to desperate measures to fund the dog food bill and dealing out stuff in little bags on street corners....:eek::p;):D
 
My lovely old rescue dog (rip Tara) was a real Heinz 57 but kind of cute in a scruffy sort of way. I was stopped one day by a very posh lady who asked what breed she was - i explained she was a British Bitzer (as in Bits of this and bits of that :)) woman was most impressed and asked me where she could buy one as she really fancied a rare breed ;)
 
CAYLA said:
Jacks h i t
S h i tpoo
Jack s h i t
Goldendoodle
Labradoodle
Huskita
Pointerdor
Poochi
Rotcher (I kid u not)
Whiperdor

Load a bull **** (would describe it all, without the chavtastic names. :D
I argued on the telephone at work re a labradoodle, I was loggingher call and said "so x breed 9 months" she said "erm, no, a labradoodle", I said "yeah a cross breed", she said "no, I paid good money and the father qualified for crufts and they had 2 litters and loads of people where buying them", I said, "a x breed from a back street breeder then", the dog/puppy in question has hip displasia :rolleyes:
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Ha similar to what i have to deal with at work everyday,i spoke to a lady the other day,asked what her pup was and she said a jackapoo,oh i said so a jack russell x poodle ok will just add that to the system,she said no a jackapoo,their a breed in their own right now surely being £450 a pup! i felt like saying no your just a mug for paying that for a glorified x breed! of course i couldn't say that to her as would probably be sacked,the amount of times i've had to bite my tongue,hard!
 
fruity said:
Ha similar to what i have to deal with at work everyday,i spoke to a lady the other day,asked what her pup was and she said a jackapoo,oh i said so a jack russell x poodle ok will just add that to the system,she said no a jackapoo,their a breed in their own right now surely being £450 a pup! i felt like saying no your just a mug for paying that for a glorified x breed! of course i couldn't say that to her as would probably be sacked,the amount of times i've had to bite my tongue,hard!
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I'm pretty shocking in what I say to the clients, good job it's not recorded :D
The best part was her saying "they have less health problems you know", "ah okey dokey ladey, that's why!, your (labradoodle) has horrendous hip dysplasia at 9 months:rolleyes:
 
Jane_Lou said:
My lovely old rescue dog (rip Tara) was a real Heinz 57 but kind of cute in a scruffy sort of way. I was stopped one day by a very posh lady who asked what breed she was - i explained she was a British Bitzer (as in Bits of this and bits of that :)) woman was most impressed and asked me where she could buy one as she really fancied a rare breed ;)
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Lol, I would say it (surprises me) that people are so dence!....but it doesn't ;):D
 
Cayla how much do you charge people for your rescues? If thats not being rude. I paid £200 for my 2 dobes, were £150 each but as job lot got them for £200 as they wanted them to go together.

How about giving your crossbreeds fancy made up names and charging a premium, they would be queing at your door. Tried to add smiley faces but not working for me.
 
we had one lady last saturday ring and was in a panic because her dog was giving birth and she didn't know what to do,i assumed it was a mis mating but no it turns out she had mated it with her other dog on purpose,you'd think she might of read up a bit first while the bitch was preggers! it then tunred out the bitch was a staffi cross! and the dad was a 'american' staffie,ummm staffie gives a hint that it should be from Staffordshire so going on that i'm guessing he's a pitbull! oh and hers are going for £500 pop,i'm sure they'll end up in good hands,NOT! I can get away with saying a few things to clients but our bosses are fairly strict so try not to push it but my god is is hard to keep quiet when your fuming inside!
 
fruity said:
we had one lady last saturday ring and was in a panic because her dog was giving birth and she didn't know what to do,i assumed it was a mis mating but no it turns out she had mated it with her other dog on purpose,you'd think she might of read up a bit first while the bitch was preggers! it then tunred out the bitch was a staffi cross! and the dad was a 'american' staffie,ummm staffie gives a hint that it should be from Staffordshire so going on that i'm guessing he's a pitbull! oh and hers are going for £500 pop,i'm sure they'll end up in good hands,NOT! I can get away with saying a few things to clients but our bosses are fairly strict so try not to push it but my god is is hard to keep quiet when your fuming inside!
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Oh yes, thats my bug bear, esp when I'm woken at 2am :rolleyes:.Im not so nice, I will say, "did you bother to read a book or make yourself familiar with the signs of whelp? "no" "well that was a bit irrisponsible", ok, now for the cost............ "erm, I don't have that kind of money" :rolleyes:, "Is that something else, you did not bother to think of then"? :mad:

Yep......it's annoying as hell.
 
A friend of mine has acquired 2 labradoodles (boy and girl) and he is going to start breeding labradoodles:confused: Will this work or will he get labs and/or poodles?

A farmer down the road from us some years ago was reputed to be crossing a wolf with collies (a wofolies?). I think they actually existed as a friend of my ex had one.

I took our springer/collie (but definately a mongrel!) back to show his breeder and told her he had caught a rabbit. She was not surprised as his dad was half greyound!

He had lots of black flecks in his coat and when I was walking through a town with him one day a little girl got very excited and screemed out 'Look granny, a dalmation'. Granny was not impressed and said (grumpy voice) 'Thats not a dalmation, its a mongrel'!

These days of course he would be a sprollie (or would if his parents were purebred!).
 
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KarynK said:
It's about time that the tax man got involved with this as well me thinks as there are a lot of people out there mis selling cross breds as pedigrees and making an absolute killing out of it. Blimey at that rate you'd make more money than dealing drugs !!!
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Clearly you dont deal drugs ;)
 
fruity said:
we had one lady last saturday ring and was in a panic because her dog was giving birth and she didn't know what to do,i assumed it was a mis mating but no it turns out she had mated it with her other dog on purpose,you'd think she might of read up a bit first while the bitch was preggers! it then tunred out the bitch was a staffi cross! and the dad was a 'american' staffie,ummm staffie gives a hint that it should be from Staffordshire so going on that i'm guessing he's a pitbull! oh and hers are going for £500 pop,i'm sure they'll end up in good hands,NOT! I can get away with saying a few things to clients but our bosses are fairly strict so try not to push it but my god is is hard to keep quiet when your fuming inside!
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Id actually love to own a pitbull just so i could train it properly and show the world that in the right hands there is nothing wrong with them. But thats another story.
 
I have a Pattingdor- Springer dad x with Labrador x Patterdale mum.(other wise know as a mongrel)
Not trendy and not expensive £50 as a token payment but definitely a mistake as the dad has now been neutered I hear.

FDC
 
Paint Me Proud said:
a colleague has a Cockerpoo - she paid £600 for it and i kid you not it is the spitting image of a Tibetan Terrier - but i know which i would prefer ;)

I did see a litter of Daneadoodles advertised recently - must say they were very cute and would probably be striking looking dogs but why cant they just be advertised as what they are - Great Dane x Poodle

Our old dog was, in new terms, a Sprollie, but we had her before all this silly name business and when asked she was always called our 'springer collie cross'
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My old dog (again we had him before all the silly names became popular) was a springador - his mum was a black lab & his dad was a springer spaniel - both were working gun dogs & Kip was the most fantastic family pet, I would not hesitate to have another one, although it would have to be a 1st generation x
 
fallenangel123 said:
I have a Great Weiler, (great dane x Rottweiler) paid £50.00 for him nine years ago before these things got trendy. He is absolutely wonderful, good with the kids, and protective of us when we are out and about. He is a huge mainly black dog with blue eyes, so a stare generally works for him!Only trouble is I know I'll never be able to replace him!
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I had a bitch we thought was rotty x greatdane.
I miss her so much, she was very gentle and lovely. :( I would love to have another one.
 
We have a little Springer x Lab pup. She was an accidental breeding and didn't cost much at all :p

I would never call her a springador or labradinger, she is a cross breed :D I say Lab x because I'm fed up of people telling us how insane (:eek:) she'll be when they hear she's got springer in her!

Both her parents have great Field Trial Championship winners in their blood lines, but I don't expect her to have any of those qualities, nor did I buy her for those reasons. I know both parents and how she was raised, that is more important to me then her breed.
 
The same friend who sent the Daisy link has just seen some "golden collies" for sale. She had one of these that she lost about 4 yrs ago. That one was a collie crossbreed that cost nothing.

Pretty sure you'd need a Viszla to cross the German Border :D Anyone who spends £1200 on a cross breed bitch has more money than sense.
 
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