I agree with you to some extent re breeds, I'm just taking a polarised stance for the purpose of the discussion
Re my collies, yes I value their intelligence and they both have jobs, ones a sheepdog and the other is starting her agility career, but the best dog I've ever had re agility is mini and she's a proper mongrel
The problem with this discussion is going to be that generally we are all 'dog people' we are NOT the problem
The problems come from the breeders who see £700 x each pup from each bitch once a year and not the breed itself or if I get a shitzu and a jackrussel I can make a jackzu or whatever and that's a grand a piece etc etc and then there's the mugs who buy them
I used to breed royal python morphs, some of mine where changing hands for thousands of pounds each, then, my killer bee morph line started to stargaze, wobbly head, stare at the sky and then die, this is a genetic condition and I caused it by accident, most of the spider lines suffer from this now and they change hands for around £600 these days, I learnt a lot, stopped breeding them and sold my stock as pets, now I'm breeding common boas, and guess what, they've started giving them silly names now, like two oastels bread together are being called super oastels (pale ones) and the prices are going up as the Nantes are getting sillier, I saw a super oastels possibly het albino carlstrain fir sake the other day for 600 quid, it's rubbish carlstrain means nothing and a super oastels is two oastels bread together which you get from an albino x normal so a super pastel must have albino genes so it isn't possibly anything
My experience being if you let silly buggers, like me, loose with a breeding stock then your going to nake a lot of money until you realise you've killed your best animals, then you feel bad, really bad and that's what people gave started doing with dogs and I wish they'd stop.
I'm going back to my new project now, I'm trying to grow kittens in jars, bonsai kittens ... They're to go with your micro pigs.... And eventually, when I've purrfected them, I'm going to sell them in your local garden centres