In an ads paper this week there is an ad for Allstaffweiler pups! It says they are very rare and goes on to say that they are Staff x Alsation x Rott so I suppose they are kind of acknowledging that they are crosses rather than a breed and they're not asking the earth for them either. Why do they need to think up silly names for them instead of just calling them crosses or good old fashioned mongrels?

I have just beeen obtaining quotes for one of my girls insurance ( big hike up with M&S) and I was horrified to see that some of the major companies, are listing various 'oodles and poos'  as breeds!!   :-(

I wonder if theres a difference in premiums between a doodle and a crossbreed.

I hope so, it will penalise all those daft people who think its a proper breed and call it by made up names. We had an F3 labradoodle pup brought into work and the owners thought that it was good that its parents hip scores were 20 and 18!

Averages of 15 and 16 not too bad.

The best place to find all these designer dogs are on ...............Theres loads...and the price they're asking is rediculous really as I remember years ago people giving their mongrels away and we had two crossbreeds that are going for hundreds these days!!!

> The best place to find all these designer dogs are on pet*****!!!

You do realise you have just given them some fantastic free advertising flufffluff39.. WEll done.. NOT

Do we really HAVE to name all these places for people to go :-(
The owners of these places must be delighted

No probs.. if you could just go back in to your post, if not to late, you can edit to remove the name :-)  or ask a mod to do it for you

Done and done :) Thanks.

Averages of 15 and 16 not too bad.
Aren't you suppose to breed well BELOW the breed average?! I think that is an appalling score personally.

Why do they need to think up silly names for them instead of just calling them crosses or good old fashioned mongrels?

They do it to make people think they are buying something special and rare instead of just another crossbreed, and some people fall for it.

My sister-in-law's mother brought a muntigeneration Registered Labradoodle, i told her they are not a reconsied breed, she (sister-in-law) said yes they are ive seen the reg papers its just like my dachshunds KC ones,  so i e-mailed the KC to prove it to her and told her its reg with a club the breeders have started thats it. then she beleaved me. But they were totaly convinced they were a KC breed eventhough they knew it was poodles crossed with labs.

Yeah and I think there worst score is 96, so much for hybrid vigour!  Shame that the vets who are recommending these crosses don't just look on their BVA site at the tests and also on American veterinary sites which show the number of illnesses that these crossbreeds are producing!

There's GSD's X Beagles in my local paper today!! :-(

Making up breed names was a game I played with my friends when we were about 8!!
We thought it was silly then...but a very good game..

Shows how much they know, should be German Shepherd not Alsatian!!!  As for cross breeding these dogs and trying to make a whole load of money from it, don't they realise how many unwanted dogs there already are out there!! 

I was mooching around the internet at the weekend and was amazed at the amount of Bichon (my breed) crosses.  There seems to be a massive increase in this kind of rubbish.  One was advertised as 'designer' so I emailed the advertiser and asked what she meant by that and she replied that it meant that they had deliberately bred two different breeds so they were designer as opposed to accidental breeding of two breeds which would be 'cross breed'.  How my blood boils.

It is so sad that people actually fall for this c**p.  It's just money making lies.

Andrea

Slightly off topic , but what is the difference between an alsatian and a german shep ?

Don't go there!!! very controvertial.

GSD x RW x SBT are a dime a dozen here in the Pounds :(. Rare, indeed...

>Slightly off topic , but what is the difference between an alsatian and a german shep ?

There should be no difference at all! The full name for the single breed is 'German Shepherd Dog (Alsatian)'.

As some people know I now reside in Australia after emigrating a couple of months ago.  I was out walking my friends lovely little Shi-Tzu (sp!!) and came across a young lady walking a young pup.  He looked a bit Stafford like and as my two were then still in quarantine I went over to say hi.  Turned out the dog was a new ''great'' Stafford.  Hmm says me, what's one of those then?  The young girl replied; 'a Staffie crossed with a Great Dane'.  Super.......
If you think mixed breeds are bad in the UK, you ain't seen nothing til you've been to Australia, trust me on this... !

Yep jeangenie they are the same breed alsation was the old name and it doesn,t matter what colour or coat length they are the breed is still called gsd. The rest of this I am not getting into LOL 

I remeber Alsations from my youth they changed in my mid teens to GSD. But yep they just change and reclassified them bit like rabbits are lagamorphs not rodents. Or somthing like that.

Got into grief last night, lovely curly dog I asked if it was a labradoodle it was a portugese water dog!!! Made my apologies he was beautiful just out the bath. They had been asked the same before!!

oops I made the reverse mistake met a black labrodoodle that I thought was a curly coat retriever. Owner didn't look to pleased. btw are they getting more common labrodoodle we sem to have quite a few where i walk all very different.

Whistler i wouldn't worry too much about that, many people don't know what a Bernese is, they think its either another breed all together or a cross. And no my boys don't look anything else but Berner.
PWD aren't that popular in the sense you don't see many about..

Id know a Berner they are wonderful, this was a black fluffy (curly) lab sized but finer bones a beauty but I did not recognise it. They also had an old, old black lab and a tiny poodle real doggie lovers, we had a chat petted each others dog and I got lost in the woods again, makes for a lot longer walk. Ive only visited those woods twice a week for 18 months, bloody grass keeps growing and it changes just to fool me. I actually follow the dogs who find the car and water in the car when they want to go home!