My fiancée and I bought our purebred sausage dog from a farm breeder in Normandie, France. She’s not your typical sausage dog; her official certification lists her as a Dachshund, a word I still ...

You’ve probably heard that purebred dogs aren’t as healthy as mixed breeds. It sounds logical—more genetic diversity should mean fewer inherited problems.

One of the easiest ways to start an argument among people who own dogs as pets is to raise the issue "Which is better, a purebred or a mixed-breed dog?" In such an argument the mixed-breed advocates ...