Question by Got Boxer? Starts puppy high!: what are some reasons besigner dogs, and byb is unhealthy and wrong?
DESIGNER dog disasters are flooding animal shelters, dumped because of deformities, disease, and overshot jaws.

The fad varieties, which include cross-breeds such as Labradoodles, Cavoodles and Pugaliers, are too often being bred with genetic faults, experts say.

And a surge in demand for designer dogs has resulted in production-line breeding, causing health problems for dogs and their puppies.

The Animal Welfare League and South Australian Canine Association have called for regulations on cross-breeding to stamp out the health problems.

Animal Welfare League spokeswoman Donna Sullivan said its shelter received designer-dog disasters daily, including puppies with genetic defects and others that had been used excessively for breeding.

“Their reproductive systems are so overworked to feed the want for `designer dogs’, their mammary glands are loose or enlarged and occasionally the uterus of an overworked dog sits outside the body,” she said.

“They are abandoned when they are unable to produce more pups.”

Ms Sullivan said the designer crossbreeds came from unregistered breeders who were under no obligation to limit the number of litters they forced their dogs to have. “The parent dogs in many cases have no paperwork to guarantee they have no genetic health disorders,” she said.

Sue Whelan, who runs the Hahndorf Interim Animal Shelter, said designer cross-breeding was a massive industry with no rules to stop faults being bred.

“Our records over the last seven years show a dramatic increase in these designer dogs ending up at our shelter with all kinds of defects,” she said.

“There is a whole pet farming industry and you don’t really know what has been crossed with what and a lot of these dogs aren’t bred responsibly,” she said.

“Most of the time they come in totally matted because people are buying these cute and fluffy poodle crosses and not realising they need to be almost sheared like a sheep at least twice a year. We clip them back and find all these problems with their shoulders and hips and jaws.”

SA Canine Association president John Carter said he was “fed up” with overpriced crossbreeds and their associated problems.

“We have spent years literally breeding out the faults in dogs and here these people are just putting dogs together and breeding the problems back in,” he said.

“We’re talking hip dysplasia, eye problems, temperament problems – all kinds of things.

“And they are not under the control of anybody. Pedigree breeders are disciplined if they breed a dog under 12 months of age or use a mother and son or father and daughter.”

Mr Carter said puppy farms had become money-making ventures where thousands could be paid for “what is essentially a mongrel”.

“These people have no conscience – they aren’t dogs to them, they are animals,” he said.

State Government Dog and Cat Management Board chief executive Deb Kelly said all breeders – whether pedigree or crossbred – had a responsibility to ensure they were producing healthy animals.

“In relation to genetic deformities, it is something we are monitoring and if there is a need to regulate, we would be making such recommendations to the minister,” she said.

are their anythat arent stated in here? im writing a paper, and if you guys could add anymore reasons that would be great! thanks

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Answer by snowflake311
Honestly a mix breed should not be unhealthy. The reason they are is because the people breeding these so called “Designer dogs” are not good breeders. They are not doing healthy checks on the bitches and studs they breed. These so called breeders are in it for the money. They don’t care what the out come is or where the pups end up. That’s the problem. Mixing breeds is not the problem it is how it is being done.

I think it is stupid for anyone to pay top dollar for a mutt first of all. I have a border collie lab mix. She was a pound pup born on the street. She is 14 years old and still going strong. So it’s not the fact they are mutts that make them unhealthy.

It comes down to poor breeding. The same reason why many Cockers have so many health problem, or why so many Dalmatian are deaf, and why we see so many German shepherds with bad hips. It’s because people are over breeding and doing it to make a quick buck. It’s awful and wrong. I wish people would leave the breeding up to people that care and know what they are doing.

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