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Designer Dogs -, The Puggle Captures The Hearts Of Dog Owners
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CBS News Sunday Morning – "Designer A Cuter Dog"
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/21/sunday/main1638400.shtml
This ridiculous, nauseating segment ran this morning on the CBS News
Sunday Morning show. The reporter, Bill Geist, gushed over "puggles"
and other purpose-bred mixed breeds with Wally Havens, puppy miller
extraordinaire. In the background, the camera caught endless rows of
stainless steel cages lining both walls of one building. Havens runs
one of the biggest puppy mills in Wisconsin - in 2001, he had almost
1,000 dogs in his facility.
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click on "Contact Us" and choose CBS News Sunday Morning on the drop-
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/21/sunday/main1638400.shtml
Wallace Haven's website: http://www.puppyhavenkennel.com/
Read about Haven's Animal Welfare Act (AWA) violations at the
following links of USDA inspection reports, courtesy of No Puppy
Mills.com:
http://www.nopuppymills.com/inspections/35-B-0105_APR-23-2003.pdf
http://www.nopuppymills.com/inspections/35-B-0105_AUG-07-2002.pdf
http://www.nopuppymills.com/inspections/35-B-0105_FEB-20-2002.pdf
http://www.nopuppymills.com/inspections/35-B-0105_MAY-03-2001.pdf
http://www.nopuppymills.com/inspections/35-B-0105_OCT-21-1999.pdf
Designing A Cuter Dog
Part Pug, Part Beagle, The Puggle Captures The Hearts Of Dog Owners
Aug. 6, 2006
A Sunday in the park with dogs can be a lovely outing for a couple,
as long as the couple can agree on what type of dog to own.
What if one person likes pugs, and the other, beagles.
What's a couple to do? Call it quits? Go on Dr. Phil?, CBS Sunday
Morning contributor Bill Geist asks.
One couple found their miraculous answer in a pug and a beagle rolled
into one -- a puggle. Another relationship saved, thanks to modern
canine breeding science.
The puggle is, currently, the most popular of the new designer dog
breeds that now number in the hundreds and can cost in the thousands.
They're trendy and pricey.
Like handbags and shoes, puggle sales boomed when word got out that
celebrities were buying them -- a lot of them from David Deitz at
Brooklyn's Puppy Paradise. Actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Sylvester
Stallone have purchased designer dogs.
Sly's puggle was bred at a remote Wisconsin kennel where proprietor
Wallace Havens invented the breed.
Havens has bred about 50 different hybrid dogs, and frankly, this one
didn't sound too promising.
"They were hard to sell 'cause people would ask what kind of dogs do
you have and I would tell 'em I had a beagle crossed with a pug and
they'd laugh and say they didn't think they wanted one of those,"
Havens, who also coined the name, says.
The puggle has been so successful, he's added the pocket puggle to
his designer line.
And Havens thinks he's come up with the next "it" dog. Is the mini-
St. Bernard the new puggle?
Mixed breed dogs used to be called mutts but give a mutt some papers,
slap a hefty price on it, call it a designer dog and stand back. The
designer dog rush is on: a fuzzy flurry of trendy new designer dogs
with some very unusual names.
Somewhere in this swirl Puppy Paradise there's a lhasa poo, a westie
poo and two puggles: all the offspring of purebred parents of
different breeds.
The question these days is not how much ss that doggie in the window -
- the puggle's $950 if you want to know -- but rather what is that
doggie in the window?
Deitz, the store's owner, says it is almost similar to breeding
together a Versace bag and a Coach handbag and has an idea for what
dog owners want.
"Puppies that are smaller in size than 15 pounds, that are fuzzier
and are teddy bear-like qualities with cute round teddy bear-like
faces and nice, fat pudgy bodies that stay small. They eat less, poop
less," Deitz says.
In other words, small hybrids that require less fuel and produce
fewer toxic emissions.
"People constantly want something new. They want something the
neighbor doesn't have, that you can't go to the pet store and get
every day," says Gary Garner, president of the American Canine Hybrid
Club.
Garner says his group lists 325 hybrids to date.
The venerable American Kennel Club turns up its nose at hybrids and
the Poodle Club of America has launched a campaign against them.
Well, Wallace Havens doesn't look the part of Dr. Frankenstein, but
at his kennel in rural Wisconsin he's produced about 50 different
hybrid breeds.
"They gotta be cute or people don't want 'em," Havens says bluntly.
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