Malti-Poo, (Malt-A-Poo) (Maltipoo) (Maltepoo), Maltese, Poodle, Cross.

Malti-Poo, (Malt-A-Poo) (Maltipoo) (Maltepoo), Maltese, Poodle, Cross. 05/31/2010

I have fallen in love with this cute little Maltese Poodle cross, puppy that is fifteen weeks old and comes past my place every day on her walks Isn’t she cute. She stops so we can chat and wag tails; we have so much to talk about, important stuff, like the local smells best places to scratch, we leave stuff like women diet pills, to the magazines they leave laying around in the communal laundry and get on with the business of investigating the ground outside the laundry door deciding how many geckos and butterflies we think we can catch and how cane toads would be more fun than a ball to chase but out owners will not let us.

Kathy, my owner is not a big fan of cross-bred, dogs and prefers the pure bread varieties from reputable breeders who do health checks, 'not puppy farms'. She says that a Poodle and a Maltese have very different jaws and when you cross breed dogs so different to each other. Rather than producing a dog, without the possible inherited health problems, of the pure bred, you keep all the inherited potential health problems of both breeds and create new health problems associated with the incompatibility, of things like jaw size and teeth.

Just because a dog looks cute as a puppy and Paris Hilton makes it a fashion accessory, does not make it an ideal breed. The Poodle Maltese is not, she says, a dog breed, is a high maintenance dog with jaw alignment problems, one that would never, be recognised, by any kennel control council as a legitimate healthy breed of dog. Definitely only dog bred, for its income producing ability, not genuine concern, for producing a healthy breed of dog. If this offends, lovers of this popular cross breed she is sorry but she says she loves dogs too much to not share her feelings about the puppy farm culture of earning money producing pop culture fashion cross breeds for 'the market', rather than healthy pure breed (not in bred), dogs.

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