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Exactly!! I should be going soon to the North Shore Animal Leauge. Any one been their before? My aunt got a pure bred Golden Retriever from their. With parents that was show dogs xD I have goldens no offense. But I'm mostly looking for personailty too. Not too stubborn, not too little feiceness, etc.... Mostly I love Dobermans (couldn't gues that one?) Austrailian Cattle Dogs, etc.. I want a mid-sized dog. Also must have high to mid energy. We'll see.

I do like both. you can like both you know. I own a pure breed and a mutt at the same time. And besides. Not everyone can have the some exact opinion as you. I like both. And it depends as well. because every dog has a defferent personallity, and some SEEM to use more of their instinct then others. judgeing from the dogs I have owned (And I have owned ALOT) The mix breeds seem to use more instinct then pure breeds. But I have seen it the other way around too so. Like I said it actually depends on the dog's personallity really ^^

Lunawings wrote:
BaltoSeppala wrote:
Look people...while the show and conformation hobbies really do turn me off (because of the "clubb" and conceited nature of the people involved in most cases), and while it is entirely possible for certain breeders to over-breed their dogs and bog them down in poor genetics and disease issues, there ARE many fine things to purebreeds.

What is this? Some sort of anti-purebred conspiracy? Any of you who posted in the "Top Ten Favorite Dogs" topic, who also posted here saying that mixed breeds are better, are starting to appear rather hypocritical from where I'm sitting...


I do like both. you can like both you know. I own a pure breed and a mutt at the same time. And besides. Not everyone can have the some exact opinion as you. I like both. And it depends as well. because every dog has a defferent personallity, and some SEEM to use more of their instinct then others. judgeing from the dogs I have owned (And I have owned ALOT) The mix breeds seem to use more instinct then pure breeds. But I have seen it the other way around too so. Like I said it actually depends on the dog's personallity really ^^

Hey - it's cool, Lunawings. It's just that, all of a sudden, it seemed like everyone was dissing on purebreds. They're not THAT bad. Sure, there are plenty of unreputable breeders (who sure CLAIM to be reputable...just because of a looooooong list of show awards and years in the "hobby", as they call it) who do harm to their breed. But that doesn't mean that ALL purebreds are as bad as some people here are making them out to be, or that they're worse than having mixed breeds.

Sure...mixed breeds can be a lot of fun. And some are quite intelligent, attractive, and healthy. Everyone should get what they want. But the kind of information being posted here, so generally, is doing no good, and is not entirely accurate.