Bichpoo & Spitzoodle help please

[emma123]

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Hi I am wanting to get a bichpoo or a spitzoodle, I already have a border collie male who has not been neutered and a cat. I will get the new puppy neutered when I get him/her. Anyone who has one will they get on with my other animals? mostly my dog? What are the dogs like? their temperament? Someone told me small dogs are yappers are these?

Thank you,

Emma.

 

[chelynnah]

Why the crossbreeds? Nothing against crossbreeds, but if you're looking for something smaller with a temperament you can learn about relatively accurately, then you are better with a purebred from a responsible breeder who knows the lines, the temperaments, the health etc. Different dogs were original bred for different purposes. I'm not sure I'd want the result of a spitz breed and a poodle. That would be a lot of hard work in training.

Also as to yappy or not, it depends on the breeding lines behind them. In a cross-breed you don't necessarily have that kind of knowledge.

Sorry, not much help here.

 

[eingana]

Why the crossbreeds? Nothing against crossbreeds, but if you're looking for something smaller with a temperament you can learn about relatively accurately, then you are better with a purebred from a responsible breeder who knows the lines, the temperaments, the health etc. Different dogs were original bred for different purposes. I'm not sure I'd want the result of a spitz breed and a poodle. That would be a lot of hard work in training.

Also has to yappy or not, it depends on the breeding lines behind them. In a cross-breed you don't necessarily have that kind of knowledge.

Sorry, not much help here.

^^^What she says.

Generally crossbreeds are much less homogeneous and predictable than pedigrees, and most of these 'designer breeds' are so poorly controlled that you can't research lines, you can't meet other dogs from the same lines to see if that's what you want and you can't get to see all of the health certificates for both parents like you would with a purebred either. Some poodles yap and I know a pair of bichons who never shut up, but then neither of them are necessarily representative of the breed, or of the puppy you may get.

Most breeders who are happy to comply with all of the Kennel Club guidelines for how to go about breeding would have nothing to do with creating these crossbreeds and so all you're left with are those who think it's a good idea to cash in on the 'designer breed' fad, and statistically that doesn't give you the best conditions, the best breeding stock or the best knowledge.

If you're going to buy a puppy please only do so after meeting the pup, the whole litter and the mother in clean, happy, comfortable surroundings, and don't allow yourself to be guilted into buying when meeting someone away from the home or the mother, or buying to remove the pup from dreadful conditions. If you do that then you have no idea what breed you may get (fraud is very common with this) and you're paying in to perpetuate the dreadful conditions and the puppy farm conditions for the breeding dogs, many of whom live in sheds and outhouses with no access even to daylight. Please open your eyes and buy a good puppy who is well bred by a breeder who cares and who has done things right- it will cost you more, but it's worth it in the long run not to have a pup with lifelong health conditions.