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A mix is a mix. Cute puppy though! You can really see the Shih Tzu part of him coming out!
Yes but he is our darling little mix and he was free so whose complaining...
And FYI there are alot of "breeds" that started out as mixes... For example the Shetland Sheepdog started out a mix between a Border Collie and an Icelandic Yakkin(still a mixed origin but accepted into the AKC later). At one time in the early 1950s the Shih tzu that we know it as today was crossed with a Pekinese to make a less leggy dog(its a mix but still was developed into a pure breed by AKC standards). I had a Beagle mix 85% pure that was the 4th gen breedback because the great grandma(?) got bred by a mongrel... a few more backbreedings and the pups would be purebred Beagles again not mixes. There was once a mix of a bulldog from England and a Pug to create a stocky, docile family pet known today as the English Bulldog(now in the AKC standards). The curly coated retriever is thought to have descended from the English Water Spaniel, the St. Johns Newfoundland, the retrieving setter and the Poodle(that is literally a mixed up mutt but is now in AKC standards). I can go on and on listing AKC pure breeds that started as mixes(mutts). There are actually Labradoodle(designer breed mutt) advocates lobbying for AKC to recognize the Labradoodle as a new breed... If AKC accepts them into the club, these mutts will be considered purebreds. What my point is, they have to start somewhere and the folks that have developed the Teddy Bears(even if they are mutts right now bred from two AKC pure parents) have just as much of a chance getting their breed, which they have a patent pending and trademark on, into AKC standards as the Labradoodle or any of the other breeds I have listed.
To quote your statement Rodriguez "a mix is a mix"... And so are all those purebreds I listed above.
True...but those dogs were bred to standards, not just two dogs bred together to produce a mix-breed pup that resulted in a "designer" dog. Purebred dogs, those who are bred by quality breeders, breed towards a breed standard. They are closely monitored for standard qualities. Designer dogs cannot be said for. I cannot see why breeders of "designer" dogs would even attempt to put down other breeders for breeding similar mixes, unless they are simply trying to make a buck.
Either way, your dog is adorable. I am not disputing that. I am only disputing the fact that those breeders who gripe against others mixing breeds for a similar product are no better than the breeders they are putting down.
