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Agreed.  I honestly just didn't want any fuel to be added to anyones fire.
 
A lot of folks here are really BIG into rescue.  Somehow I always get purebred fosters, but that's ok since I'm partial to german shepherds these days......

I totally believe in rescue/shelters.  I just would like to see people spay/neuter there dogs if they are not meant to be breeding animals.  I am not big into breeding, but I may breed my Cairn after and only after she has her championship.  I had to sign a contract with the breeder i bought her from that anytime she has gone 12 months without being shown, I have to spay her.  Also, If I don't get her championship I also am required to spay her.  I felt this is o.k. as she is also protecting her reputation as a breeder of Championship dogs.  It is very hard to get a quality show dog.  I wish breeders would help people get started, I had one breeder tell me they would never sell me a dog because I have a 3 yr. old son.  They don't know him at all.  Funny thing is the breeder that did sell me my dog, sold this other person their first dog and she had a 6 year old child.  My son gets along great with Ellie.

How funny... I only missed one lmfao... they all look identical though... >9.9<

Wow, 85% of my answers were right!
 
All those mutts were very cute, though.

I only guessed correctly on the goldendoodle and the cockapoo. And Joel, if it means anything to ya, I though the Labradoodles were among the cutest dogs on there. 

I am so sick of reading the phrases "designer dogs" and "doodles" that I could scream.

Anyhoo--Classycarin--what kind of horses do you own/show? I have an older QH mare who is retired and a OTTSTB gelding. I think it is interesting that you would compare buying a purebred horse to a purebred dog, because I think in a lot of ways they are different. I could see where you are coming from if you show horses that have had closed studbooks for a while now and do not let other breeds participate in their registry, but there are tons of very successful and well bred horses that would not be considered "purebred," by doggy standards. National Show Horses, Half-Arabians, Warmbloods (I think the Trakanners are about the only breed whose studbook is closed), Paints (used to allow QH and TB blood, although I'm not entirely sure with their recent policy changes), Appaloosa (ditto, except that they allowed arab, TH, and QH blood into their registery), Quarter Horses (allowing TBS), have all offered the horse world brilliant show horses in their repective disiplines.

Not trying to be argumentative, but I think it's hard to compare horses with dogs in this situation, especially when you have carefully bred "mixes" such as Warmbloods commanding some of the highest prices in horsedom outside of the racing industry.

I like taking all types of quizes online like these I scored a 100% on this one is that a good thing or bad...lol[8D]

Well, Glenda, that's cause your a doggy angel []

I stand corrected, I guess it is somewhat different, although I still believe people are going to far with "designer" horses Ie. Arapaloosa's, Pintoloosa's ect.  I do have paints and yes they do allow QH and Thoroughbred blood, but the new rule states that you have to have one paint parent to register in the regular registry.  Paint was established due to all the color that was coming from quarter horses, which happened before any registries were formed.  Now that Quarter horse is allowing unlimited white on their foals as long as both parents are registered quarter horse, there isn't a problem.  I still think some things should be kept as they are.  I know there is a half arabial and half morgan registry, but what about keeping lines pure?  I guess that is just my opinion. 

I think that one of the reasons that many of the "designer horses" are becoming so popular is partly because of how specialized horses tend to be these days in the show world. I know in the QH world, and I'm sure in the paints too, it is rare to find a halter horse that then can go out and successfully compete in reining, or a reining horse that has a prayer in the halter ring. There seems to be a huge and disturbing divide between "using" horses and halter or even WP horses. I was always taught that a WP horse should look like it has traveled 50 miles and could go another 50. However, many of the WP horses of today (although it is slowly improving) look as if they'll be lucky if they can make it around the ring.

Even Warmbloods are slowly starting to push TBs out of areas that they traditionally dominated because that WBs are bred in a very specialized manner for the hunter ring, dressage, etc, whereas you just don't see it as much in the TB world. Many of the TBs out there today were origianlly bred for racing, and lately the racing industry is churning out more and more horses that just can't compete with the WBs.

I think that the main difference between have arabs and other half breed horses is that theArabian registry (the name escapes me) has a half arabian division that is quite active, where the owners of half-arabs have their own classes and can show on the arab circits. Also, I think that there is a certain amount of quality and refinment associated with arabs that is not with amny other breeds. Whenever a developing breed has wanted to refine their stock--they have added the arab.

I agree with you sillysally....Horse industry is MUCH different.
 
 I have worked in the horse breeding industry for a number of years.  Specifically with warmbloods.  They are ALL cross registered.  A Hanoverian stallion can be approved for breeding  Dutch, Oldenburg, Sweedish.... and of course Hanoverian.  All of the WBs also have TB blood in them, and TB is still curently bred into WB bloodlines. 
 
Have you ever noticed in the stud books they mention the registered breed of the stallion but they also show the multiple breeds his babies can be registered?

This is true, I guess I should have said registered instead of purebred.  My mouth went faster than my brain, not unusual for a blonde![][]

Wow that's a fun quiz... I only got 2 wrong [] (pekeapoo and yorkipoo).

Maybe the horse industry is different because it takes quite a bit of money to own one (I know - impoverished Arab owner here LOL), and they only have one foal at a time, with a gestation period of 11 months.  Dogs have multiple offspring, and much less overhead, so it's easier to overpopulate.
Horse biz does have the equivalent of puppy mills though - called premarin farms. 

That was interesting. I got 71%. I think all of them are adorable not matter where they came from.