What are the pros and cons of purchasing a purebred or a mixed breed dog?

What are the pros and cons of purchasing a purebred or a mixed breed dog?

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The pros and cons of purchasing a purebred dog are that you're going to know to a good degree what this dog was bred to do, and therefore what its temperament might be like, what its exercise needs are going to be, and what its shedding is going to be. There are a lot of questions that can be answered by getting a purebred dog. However, let me speak to the mixed breed dog. The mixed breed dog has what we call "hybrid vigor", which means that you have two breeds or breed mixes being put together, and they tend to be more intelligent and they tend to be healthier, because you're taking different gene pools and mixing them. Of course, it depends on what the gene pools are. There's a variation with the breeds.