Toy Panda Dogs....WTF!?!?
So last night I was on hoobly looking around and what was being sold locally, out of sheer boredom. I then come across this ad - http://www.hoobly.com/0/0/1950555.html . under that were four ads for "rare breed toy panda" pups.
Of course I had to go look this up and found their website. http://toypandadog.com/
Apparently they are looking for people to join their breeding program. You get a "Free" pup(minus shipping) that you foster for their breeding program. My guess is these are at least spaniel mixes. Hard to say for sure since even after 8-10 years of breeding(their claim) they have not even come close to having consistency as far as looks (click on join our breeders)
Anyways these guys plus the people at the other FOUR toy mutt pages are supposedly producing therapy dogs on the smaller side; well therapy dogs and overpriced toy mutts at 800 and up a pop.
Now onto the questions
1. Whats your opinion on this?
2. Do you think after all the time spent on this "breed" they should have SOME consistency in their breeding dogs?
3. Do you think most people are joining into this for a cheap do and for the chance to provide therapy dogs without realize just how much work really does go into breeding?
Shannon: True enough though if they had a real standard and not they one had now and were actually following it they would be a bit closer. Of course culling dogs from the program means less money.
Poppy: I nearly spit my coffee out reading some of the pages. Then I noticed the toy boxer, toy rotts toy bulldogs and was like ok I'm done my brain can't take anymore.