Everyone has a point. My dad's Manchester Terrier is a pound dog, healthy as an ox, though he certainly appears to be a purebred, he's probably not.
Daisy, my female Weim was just this side of a pound dog, the offspring of two older Weims and no one wanted her because of that(there were only 2 puppies in the litter), no pedigree, she cost 8 bucks and never spent a day in the vet's.
Ziggy, I paid 500 dollars for and about 2K dollars to the vets that cared for him his first 6 months. The vet told me the same thing, purebreds are trouble. The people that bred Ziggy actually went so far as to bring his mother from Kansas in order to try not to get inbred puppies, but I guess the breed is already too inbred. We were lucky that he didn't have hip dysplasia, very common to Weimaraners. He came with a pedigree that I never sent in because I had no intention of breeding him. He is a much better "example" of the breed than Daisy, but he's defiinitely more fragile.
Breed rescue is the way I would have gone originally, had I known it existed at the time.
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