Help me find a Non Shedding or Low Shedding Dog

eyeopening

Hi! Here's an article that discusses different breeds of dogs that shed very little. It may help you make your decision. Best of luck to you. :-)

http://gomestic.decenturl.com/five-s...ing-dog-breeds

Apollo

LMH

I always thought a mutt was a dog with more than one breed in it. So a doodle type or designer breed is a cross or mixed breed not a mutt. I think that word it being used to make those people feel inferior for buying from a BB. Hopefully people who are looking for a cross breed again will use a shelter. But bullying anyone into it and after the fact will not get your point across. How bout something like"i'm glad your dog has such a good home, I work at a shelter and see these mixed breeds all the time, next time why don't you look there and tell your friends to look there too".

Norboo

All you closed minded people that stated your point regarding pure breeds this pure breed that, mix breed this and mix breed that, just remember all dogs were genetically altered by selection. All dogs are mix breeds at one point.

Get a mix breed from the shelter instead of buying a doodle? Would you bring home unstable mix breeds into your home where your toddlers live?

Why is it your business what people select for their pets and how they go about selecting what they want?

Did you adopt your child or have your own? So many orphans in the world, why breed your own?

I say this to all the “adopt from the shelter don't buy a mutt” people. Get a life.

rosemaryninja

Yes. This point was several hundreds of years ago. It was also when parent clubs were being started and breed standards were being written. If doodles don't have either of these things, they can never even begin to be considered a real breed.

I've met many, many well-balanced mix-breed rescues at my local shelter. I'm also pretty sure that the numerous people on this forum who have very stable mix-breed rescues may be offended by that. Dogs aren't just taken to the shelter because they have behavioural problems. They're also taken there because they were given as gifts to unready owners. Or because a son has gone to college and now no one wants to look after the dog. Or because "she digs holes", or "she's not as cute as she was as a puppy", or "she's too hyperactive".

Also, most backyard breeders don't even show their dogs or do temperament testing, so what's to say a breeder's doodle will be anymore balanced than a shelter doodle?

Because it affects millions of lives of dogs all over the country. If every shelter dog out there had a forever home, I wouldn't have as much of a problem with backyard breeders and people who buy from them.

Are you actually comparing buying a doodle from a breeder to having your own child? Have you considered that a child is your own flesh and blood, and that's a very precious thing? I would choose to have my own child over adopting one just for the precious knowledge that the child is a part of me.

If you buy a doodle from a breeder, is he your own flesh and blood? No. Neither is the one in the shelter. Get it? They're exactly the same. So why sacrifice one to support unethical activity?

Maybe you should learn about saving lives first.

RonE

I can't believe it.

You all are debating designer breeds on a thread started over a year ago? If the OP hasn't found a dog by now, he wasn't trying very hard.

If you're going to have this debate for the 85th time, at least start a new thread and call it The Great Designer Dog Debate - Part 85. That way, someone won't get sucked into it thinking it's a thread about a human looking for a dog.