My co-worker's daughter is looking to adopt a dog. Right now she is going the rescue route (which I am happy to see) and has filled out an application for a lab. There are four other applications on this dog and they want to do a home inspection, etc. Long story short, this girl and her mother don't really know much about dogs at all and I am secretly fearful that this girl is probably going to think the dog is too much work and eventually give it up. I hope I am wrong. I have been giving her lots and lots of advice. All of my co-workers are *dog people* so she will have lots and lots of help with questions if she does get a dog.

Anyway, my co-worker said this morning that the woman in this rescue group told her that actually mutts make better dogs because they get only *the good genes* from the dogs in their ancestry. They have no faulty genes (i.e., that lead to health problems since only the good genes are passed along). I was aghast at this and even more so the fact that my co-worker was ready to believe this. Has anyone ever heard anything so crazy. It also amazed me that anyone in rescue (whom you assume knows about dogs) would make such a statement. Am I the only one who is here?