Maybe my willingness to pay for a specific type of mutt harkens back to my "horse days"?? Where it's VERY common to cross-breed, whether for a sport (dressage horses are often crosses); or simply because the end result will be flashy (my sis showed Arab/Pinto crosses for decades). There's a term called Warmblood that refers to any one of several combinations of horse breeds, and they sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. So yeah - it hardly shocks me to pay a bunch of money for a mutt. Has nothing to do with hybrid vigor and everything to do with desirable qualities.
