wetware: How cool you brought that up...you are 100% right...I just wantched a program last week on that!! really,me and Damien watched it (yes he watches the TV with Mommy,lol) They were saying how the purebred dogs end up with more genetic problems even though good breeders won't breed a known flaw....something about how just the gene pool being "closed off" causes more mutations,and that mutts are less likely to have problems because they are more "open"...I know I am not wording that the right way,lol