Beautiful dogs, Daus, sorry to hear about your misfortune. :( I agree with you on the mutts from my experiences so far, my best dogs and my favorites of friends have been mutts. My last dog was an Australian Shepherd that I adopted and he was practically my best friend, but he had a horrible back problem I hadn't realized until a few months later, which didn't turn out well, sadly.
They're supposedly not good with kids unless trained well because they try to herd them, so I've heard. lol Perusing your LJ now. lol
Here's a picture of him, this was about 5 years ago:
Chuuuuu said:
yay pets xD
What a sassy dog, Chu, haha.