"The intention is to breed a perfect family dog!"

I hate to break it to those highly respectable Dakota Sheepdog breeders... but, such a dog has already been discovered. His name is Fozzie, and he's a Corglesky. : D Oh, and he didn't quite cost $1200! (WTMFFF)... Since when is a "perfect family dog" the same dog, for all families? Since when was every family completely uniform? The reason we have created different breeds is to fit different needs... there are hundreds of pure breeds for a family to pick from... why would everyone want the same dog, when just as dog's personalities differ, individuals also differ?

It disgusts me that "designer dogs" have become widely accepted, cherished, and desired over our plain old "mutts". Alongside the breed calendars, I see Schnoodle, Cockapoo, Labradoodle, Doodlespork, Crapadoodle, etc, etc, calendars. It's as if people feel that their designer dogs are more important than our mutts... simply because they come with a silly name and they paid $1000's more for them! If anything, I would horribly embarassed to have paid an anstronomical price for a DD, when a "plain old mutt" is free or for a small adoption fee... AND I would be horribly embarassed to call my dog one of those ridiculous "breed" names. It all just makes them look stupid, to be honest.