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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IF you're getting a well bred dog, then that price is worth it, [b]because you're more likely to have a healthy, long-lived, well tempered companion[/b]. If you're getting a BYB dog, then not so much.[/quote]

You can get the same with a rescue. 'Well bred dogs' don't hold the record for having a healthy, long lived, well tempered companion. I have a wonderful, absolutely wonderful dog that we rescued from PetSmart 9 years ago. We had pure bred dogs growing up (not goldens) and each one had it's own anomaly and 'well tempered' was not one of them. [/quote]

The key terms are "more likely". I have only ever had rescue dogs, and I have been involved in dog rescue in one form or the other (home visits, application checking, foster) for over 20 years. My Malamute mix lived to be about 14. My Great Dane lived to be 12. My current dog is a Great Pyrenees who is about 13. So I have had the pleasure of owning some truly wonderful, long-lived dogs. That said, a well bred dog has better likelihood of living a healthy, long life, than a random bred one.[/quote]

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