Why are crossbreeds so expensive ?

Because someone is obviously paying those prices!!

Just a bit more than what I paid for mine. I'd expect a lot pn paper before I looked at a pup, for that price, but I am probably a snob and I don't count 'cute' and 'adorable' as reasons to spend a lot of money :p
 
Yep, and often people who buy these types of crosses have no idea about dogs and unaware of possible health problems as I doubt either parents were thoroughly health checked. This type of cross breeding does annoy me, especially as people like to say they own a chorkie/jug/puggle/cavapoo etc.
 
unfortunatly cross breeds are in at the minute, if you have a look all poodle's/pugs/chows etc etc crossed with other dogs are very expensive.
Not sure why to be honest!!
Heard a breeder say that it's a current 'fashion' for people that want to buy clothing for them... but I am unsure if this is true
 
1 - supply and demand. Someone has created something of perceived value, and there are people willing to pay for it - big bucks

2 - hybrid vigour doncha know? Those cross breds are much better suited to avoiding things like hip displaysia, PRA and being hit by a car....(tongue firmly in cheek in case you couldn't tell)

3 - they have much cuter names than just boring old POODLE or LABRADOR. Wouldn't you rather have a ChiPomaPoo Terrier than an ordinary old Westie?
 
It gives a job to breeding animals who aren't a good enough/healthy enough example to breed pedigree pups of their own breed.

Example-
Someone has a very average looking pug bitch which no 'pug' person would ever want pups from, so what to do? How can she earn her keep?
That's right, stick the nearest JRT on it, call the resulting offspring a funny name, like a 'Jug' and sell them to morons for £500 a pop.

Quids in!!
 
Whilst there are those who are prepared to pay daft money for a dog which was bred with the only thought, in the mind of the breeder, being profit, so it will be a booming industry.

Generally, though obviously not always, the stud fee used to be thought to be the value of the individual pup, and when I was young, most genuine Heinz '57 mongrels were firstly a mistake (there was never any shortage of supply!) and secondly they were free, the 'breeder' being only too glad to see the back of them!

The last puppy which I bought was for my OH, he's now 7 months old, he's Dave, he's a lurcher and he cost me £200, which was about right. Dave was purpose bred and he was planned for. Generally, I'd prefer to breed my own, but as we only wanted the one puppy, so purchase seemed the better option.

Whilst Hybrid Vigour is a valid and valued inclusion in the breeding plans of any type of animal, it wont negate the heritable problems of either parent. The heritable problems which a worryingly large proportion of our canine breeds now carry has actually worsened since Society became aware of the problems. Take OCD in equines, for instance, the first recorded case was in 1946, the second was in 1966 and by 1996 it had reached the stage of doubling, every year. Out-breeding and breeding from unaffected horses hasn't made a jot of difference.

Both OCD and HD are problems associated with the forming of skeletal structure, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear that, as with horses, our dietary considerations have a huge bearing on how our dogs turn out.

Rather off-topic and I apologise OP, but even though it interests me greatly, it's a subject about which I'm as uninformed as most!

Alec.
 
I have a jug but paid the same for her as a JRT. I've always wanted a pug but didn't want the associated health problems and also wanted a more hardy yard dog because pugs suffer a lot of eye problems if they get dirt/ bedding etc in them because they're so big and buggy! Ruby has been challenging to say the least and I know a few people that have bought jugs with zero dog experience and then having to rehome them at about 6 months old because they can't manage their behaviour. They have the cheeky personalities of a pug and the attitude of a JR but because they are 'cute' people will pay extortionate amounts for them without really thinking it through :eek3:
 
milo'n'molly said:
Well mine was free ;)
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Annette4 said:
So was mine :p
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...and mine :)

He was a 3 month old pup left on his own in the flat above me for 12 hours a day while his owner did shift work. To cut the story short, he only had to live like that for about a week 'n' a bit and he's now mine.

I think crossbreeds are so expensive simply because they're being called 'designer dogs', have cute names and some people believe all the stuff about them having better health etc. The more people go along with it, the more they'll be bred and the higher the prices are going to be.

I'm afraid, I was sort of pleased to see someone on FB has been advertising her pups for months now rather than weeks, the prices have gone down each time and she's still left with 2 of them. There'll be no profit left in that litter for her. Hopefully she won't be breeding again and if just one person sees that and thinks twice about breeding then that's a litter of pups that won't grow up to be rescue dogs.
 
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