Do You Have Purebred or Mixed Breed Pets?

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Poll question: Do You Have Purebred or Mixed Breed Pets?

I bought my cat at a pet store, but she isn't a specific breed or anything.

Everyone I know with dogs went out and bought a specific purebred dog.

[Dastard Stepchild]

1. Mixed breed...

a real little wundermutt :)

[flamingyouth]

2. One purebred Balinese cat

Two mixed-breed (one half-Siamese, half-Ragdoll) and one furry giant bundle of love possibly mixed with Maine Coon.

[Vanje]

3. 5 (!) purebred dogs, 2 foundling (apparently mixed breed)cats

4 border collies , one standard poodle
A gray tabby cat from a shelter and a black kitten from a dumpster

[City Lights]

4. I have both.

I have one Maine Coon, and six mixed-breed cats.

[laheina]

7. My doggie is a purebred.

My kitty was a stray.

Both rescued, btw.

[Cobalt Violet]

5. 2 cats here. One is an Ocicat and one is not a pure breed. n/t

[last_texas_dem]

6. Both kinds

All dogs: one purebred (a poodle) and two mutts, one which resembles a Scottie and another which resembles a large wire-haired white rat!

[politicat]

8. Not by the papers, but....

Angel is technically supposed to be a mixed breed. Her mum is pure-bred, but mum got loose in the cattery and no one knew who papa was, or if papa was one of several. They had a Siamese, an Abbyssinian and something else at the cattery when Mum was in heat. Angel is probably offspring of the Siamese, no matter what her siblings ended up.

Angel looks Siamese, acts Siamese, but is the Suzuki method model. At 13, she's barely 6 pounds, can sit in the palm of my not very large hand, and is only 7 inches tall at the shoulder. She's tiny and skinny and eats like a little piggy. Even if we had papers on her, though, because of her size, she's too small to show or breed even if she wasn't broken. And she'd eat everything in sight. (Her metabolic system is fine, she's just one of THOSE types.)

Fuzz is pretty generic. American Shorthair, but also unpapered. He was a rescue from a home with a two year old. Poor Fuzz.... dropped on his head a few times as a kitten, and hypoxia from being dragged around by the neck... not too bright a cat thanks to head injuries, we think. Sweet, though.

Pcat

[Lone Pawn]

9. Got a purebred Jack Russell and...I actually think the other one's

a dingo. No, seriously. I swear to God it's a dingo. It looks like a dingo, it acts exactly like domesticated dingoes do...it's a bloody dingo, for God's sake. Bought it as a tiny, tiny pup from the Humane Society, and I mean real tiny, could have been a Chihuahua pup...but it grew into a god-damned dingo. She's a great dog, I absolutely love her, don't get me wrong, I just wasn't expecting a dingo.

[guitar man]

10. one of each

China is a purebred Shi-Tzu



Birdie is a American Pit Bull/Pointer mix, Mostly Pit from the looks of her.

[arwalden]

11. Purebred ShihTzu

[hickman1937]

12. Three cats

1 purebred Pain IN The ASS
1 purebred Back Porch Rescue
1 purebred Brought Home By My Daughter
They're all thoroughbreds.

[pansypoo53219]

13. breed?

i have had 6 cats now and the closest to purebred was my cosmo, who was either mostly norwegan forest cat or maine coon. one seems to have some abysynian. whiskers was likely a bit of angora. but his sister was just a tabby. as is basil and his sister has small maine coon/norwegan forest cat all over her.
quite the stinker she is.

[FDRrocks]

14. Purebred Pomeranian

So, naturally, the goddamned thing won't shut up. 5 years of constant headaches and constant attention down, X-amount of years left. Someone put me outta my misery. :)

[outraged2]

15. German Shepard

... adopted though, not bought. She came from a GS rescue.

[ThorsHammer]

18. Great dog! I have an adopted GS mix

[outraged2]

24. yes, I love them

.... except for the year-round shedding. That is my only complaint.

I just realized I spelled shepherd wrong.... how embarassing

[Lone_Star_Dem]

16. Of my current 4 cats and one dog all are mixed breed.

Three of the cats are SPCA babies, one is a private rescue from my evil neighbor. My one dog is a private rescue from an abusive home.

[forgethell]

17. One pure-bred Border Collie

the king of dogs("if it's not a Border Collie, it's just a dog"). Three mutts (a Labrador, a chowbrador, and a spaniel-ly thing), a Maine Coon cat mix, and a tortoiseshell cat. All but the BC were strays.

[CO Liberal]

19. One Cat, Two Dogs - All Mixed Breed, All From Shelters

We adopted Della, our domestic short-haired cat, from the ASPCA shelter in Las Vegas whe we were living in Nevada. Peanut is a hound/shepherd mix and Pearl is a chow/husky mix - they both came from teh City Animal Shelter in Pueblo.

Shelter animals rule!!!!!

[auburngrad82]

20. Two purebred, three mixed-breed dogs

They eat us out of house and home.

[Gayla]

21. Some of both - all puppers.

Pepper Tuxedo - a lhasa - rescued from Puppy Death Row
Gim'me Buffett - American Eskie
Desdemona - Cocker Spaniel (another rescue)
Kinja Callaloo - Pomeranian
McGee - Black Lab
Landry Meadows - Beagle
Savannah Hurricane - American Eskie
Bojangles - God knows..either a Bassett and Springer Spaniel
mix or a dashhound and dalmation mix..

[kittycat1164]

22. All 5 of my cats are mixed

and were either strays or kittens from strays. But 3 are as close to Maine Coons as I know, but alas, no papers. Just cuter than anything!

[TX-RAT]

23. 16 cats, all mixed

4 dogs
1 Springer Spaniel
3 Brittany Spaniels
4 Horses, all Appaloosas
62 Cows, all Brangus
" Oh and 1 wife, mixed " Half Mexican, Half German.

[ok_cpu]

25. Purebred frustration....

A beagle who has been the subject of a cry for training help to DU.

[yellowdogintexas]

26. 4 cats, mixed breed all of them, although one of them is about 1/2

Siamese

[Mountainman]

27. I have 3 purebred Arabian horses, 5 mixed dogs and 3 mixed cats