Designer dogs – cool pets or expensive mutts?
What are puggles, labroodles and dorgis’? No, not characters from a Tolkien or a Harry Potter novel. These are designer dogs and the norm for naming them is to give them portmanteau names, i.e. a Daschund/Corgi combination gives you a dorgis.
Advocates of breeding designer dogs justify the idea saying that hybrids are carefully bred to display desired characteristics and weed out undesirable ones. Thus, if you are looking for a hybrid that sheds less and is gentle with kids, you would go for a cross obtained by pairing a poodle and a labrador. This, according to some, justifies the premium price that designer dogs attract.
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