READERS: Would you get your mixed-breed dog tested?.    From Wordnik.com.  [DNA tests sniff out mutts' breeding] Reference

There is nothing “wrong” with mixed-breed shelter dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time for a Westmuttster dog show] Reference

Angus: My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Summary and book reviews of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison.] Reference

He had orangy hair, and was accompanied by an unkempt mixed-breed dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pet Peeve]

Our 39-lb mixed-breed mutt passed away at age 15 and that vacuum was noticeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Dog Ate the _________?] Reference

You can usually find one Misting in ... oh, about ten thousand mixed-breed skaa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mistborn] Reference

Since a mixed-breed cat is a tabby, this means that all breeds must remain tabbies.    From Wordnik.com.  [We didn’t do it!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

He was a small, black, mixed-breed, part Chihuahua, perhaps part miniature pinscher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arthur Rosenfeld: A Dog's Life] Reference

You bring yourself down, because a mixed-breed can't possibly be raised to your level.    From Wordnik.com.  [There Will Be Time]

"The beagle side of this mixed-breed upgrades the poor respiratory system of the pug.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Life With Gini And Ferrett] Reference

SAO PAULO, Brazil He learned his first moves with the help of a mixed-breed dog named Bombom.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Ronaldinho is man to watch at World Cup] Reference

A man took a sickly mixed-breed puppy to an animal hospital after adopting it from a relative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairfax County Animal Watch] Reference

Danny comes to believe that the mixed-breed stray embodies the spirit of someone he dearly loves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gemini Summer by Iain Lawrence: Book summary] Reference

A 13-year-old mixed-breed dog in upstate New York is the first pooch to have contracted the swine flu.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2009] Reference

They also have the room to have loads of mixed-breed pets and several bicycles and all-terrain vehicles.    From Wordnik.com.  [HerScopes] Reference

These "mixed-breed" strains of unknown ancestry are low yielding, monstrously tall (3-5 m), and late maturing.    From Wordnik.com.  [9. Sorghum: Commercial Types] Reference

One of the dogs was a mixed-breed collie with heartworms, and the other was a mixed-breed terrier with mange and no fur.    From Wordnik.com.  [D.C. animal watch] Reference

In Pete Nelson's new novel, every time Paul comes home, his mixed-breed named Stella tells him, "I thought you were dead.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Five new books about dogs] Reference

After calling various breeders, I was told that a nearby feed and pet store had some dwarf mixed-breed baby rabbits for sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Animals Speak] Reference

In May, unverified reports of a 29-year-old mixed-breed dog in Chesterfield, England, headlined its supposed 203-year-old age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven-Year Glitch] Reference

He and his family adopted a mixed-breed, Sweet Pea, from Dogs Deserve Better, an anti-dog-chaining group, near the end of 2008.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pet Talk: 'Kindest Kid' Hannah Blaze is a hero to Ohio animals] Reference

Local residents found “the tan mixed-breed dog lying protectively with a puppy beside the baby wrapped in a torn black shirt.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stray dog rescues and attempts to raise baby] Reference

Peronally I abhor the term “designer dog” and would really, really prefer if people would call them what they are - mixed-breed dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice of First Dog Is Narrowed to 2 Breeds - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

There are a fair number of cases where mixed-breed dogs still hold the genetic propensity for disease from their purebred parents, he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [When a Pug and a Beagle Fall in Love, It's a Puggle] Reference

Poirier adopted a mixed-breed dog, Sammy, about a month ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [theadvertiser.com -] Reference

Adopt this female mixed-breed at the Grass Valley Animal Shelter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Union - All Categories] Reference

Benton had already captured their companion, a brown mixed-breed with blue eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories] Reference

The mixed-breed puppies are popular because of their good temperaments, Elliot said.    From Wordnik.com.  [coloradoan.com - Local News] Reference

Just last month, Rich singled out PetMed as a mixed-breed of powerful investing strategies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fool.com: The Motley Fool] Reference

"We have three pets - Jade, our mixed-breed dog, and two cats, Precious and Rexy," Deitrick said.    From Wordnik.com.  [KDKA - Pittsburgh's Source for Breaking News, Weather and Sports] Reference

So mixed-breed dogs are pretty on the inside, and they also tend to lead longer, healthier lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

But it is Oscar's keen sense of impending death, not his occasional kittenishness, that has made the mixed-breed cat legend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference

More than 6 inches of snow wasn't enough to stop a new Triad organization from building a better life for three mixed-breed dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Record Article Feed] Reference