Yes I know, it’s a little slam against all the idiots who pay ridiculous amounts of money for mutts with cute designer-poo names.
The related grumpybumper site is cool too.
I got one right - which makes sense - I’m a big fan of shelters and rescues.
The best “designer” dog I knew was owned by a friend of mine years ago - a Peke-a-Dach-a-Poo-Poo - her grandparentage included a Pekingese, a Dachshund, and two Poodles. She was a great and long-lived pup, much mourned at her passing.
Woohoo! I got 57%!
Of course, I was going by “which one looks like it would be owned by a pretentious asshole rather than a sensible person who goes to the pound for a dog?”
I got a 57% also and I was doing the same thing.
14%! Woohoo!
71%… mostly, I was looking for the better-groomed dog.
And people are asking $1000 or $1200 for these mutts. It’s insane and ridiculous.
The only goldendoodle I’ve met was rescued, basically, from a pet store. Probably puppy mill in origin, but she was a lovely dog. I agree that it’s insane to pay designer prices, but people are strange.
I got 57% right, too, but I basically tried to pick which dog I thought looked the happiest, and figured that was from a shelter. All my pets are shelter/rescue in origin, and it’s safe to say they’re pretty happy. (Well, except for the cat, but she just loves to bitch . She knows a good thing when she’s got it, however!)
The best dog I ever knew was a mutt of indescribable breeding. Amazingly large, like 90 lbs, irregularly shaped, a coat that varied from straight to curly, long to short, a snout that faced one direction and eyes that looked another – but calm, incredibly well-behaved, great with small children, and basically just the sweetest, smartest, best dog in the whole world. I still remember Sammy fondly. She was the perfect advertisement for adopting pets; a better family dog you couldn’t find! Too bad she wasn’t ours. 
I do know one couple who got a designer dog because she’s allergic to most dogs. So there is sometimes a reason.
Most of the time, it’s pretension.
I got 57% using the same critera.
Our designer dog is a HuskyChowBull. We got him at the no-kill shelter, where he was billed as a Husky-Chow mix. He has the mottled blue tongue, but if you look at him from the right angle, his skull has sort of a pit bull shape to it. We figured the shelter may have kept that particular secret hidden in the woodpile.
He’s a big old playbaby with a personality as big as all get-out, and the vet has called him one of the strongest dogs he’d ever seen for his size.
I got 100%, and I’m not even a dog person. Of course, I do live in one of the neighborhoods where the Beautiful People live, so I guess I’ve gotten a lot of accidental exposure to glamor-dogs.
I based my decisions on the differences in grooming, BTW.
47% here. Most of them look like MISTAKES!
42%. I am ashamed. Or proud. I can’t decide.
The important point is that they’re almost all poodles, the truly superior dog breed.
Watch me go, I got 100%*…
*…wrong. Apparently, I’m not very good at this.
100%
I just picked the ones that looked the happiest/cutest/whatever, because I figured the site was rigged to favor the shelter dogs. I was right.
I got a 14%.
I was judging on the quality of the picture, not the actual dog itself.
I suck.
However, I have a freebie designer dog. She’s a Lab-Mastiff mix and she is da Bomb. ( including her rancid farts)
If I were going to set out to breed a designer dog, I would try for a dachshund-beagle mix. My aunt and uncle got their’s from a shelter and she was the coolest, funniest, cutest little thing. She had this tail that curled into a loop, and she ate like a goat. Including saw blades on one occassion.
That’s what I did too, but got one wrong (the puggle).
But it seems like a pointless comparison. I’m sure many dogs in the shelter were originally purchased from breeders, and later let go because the family couldn’t (or wouldn’t) keep them anymore.
85%. I have reservations about calling any of these cutesy poo-doodle things dogs in the first place, to tell you the truth. But they all deserve good homes and it would be great if some of these people considered a “used” dog.