purebred

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For 31 years Labradors topped the American Kennel Club’s purebred rankings, which are based on more than one million annual registrations.

From The Wall Street Journal

The dogs of Chernobyl are genetically distinct, different from purebred canines as well as other groups of free-breeding dogs, the scientists reported Friday in Science Advances.

From New York Times

Dogs are, in fact, Thompson’s first major example of a shift in status: He traces rescue dogs’ rise and purebred dogs’ decline in popular estimation over the past few decades.

From New York Times

This new approach, which she calls “incredibly elegant” and “impressive,” allowed the researchers to include not just purebred dogs but also mixed-breed ones in their investigation of the genetics underlying behaviors.

From Scientific American

To identify the behavioral traits that best defined each lineage, the researchers analyzed behavioral surveys completed by the owners of more than 46,000 purebred dogs.

From New York Times