Excellent. For lots of reasons. But most of all I love how it's a scientific study unambiguously noting as a matter of fact that purebreeds are fundamentally a garbage concept. And also it does a great job of dispelling the mythology surrounding LGDs. I wish other natural working dog cultures were studied with such professionalism. The whole world of dogs should be up to this standard, but only LGDs are thanks largely to coppinger. The rest is just reduced to a childish "breed encyclopedia", "dogs 101" etc bs level. Purebreeds should just be ignored by everyone except for dog show loonies, and working dogs should be a serious category of scientific research and understanding. I'm no scientist myself so all I can really do is complain. I want scientists to hop to it and start studying the world of working dogs so I as an enthusiast can learn from them. LGDs are a great start and there is some great work being done here and I wish them all the best in establishing reproducing LGD populations in these sheep producing cultures that have lost LGDs somewhere along the way. Hopefully doing away with such ugly evils as poison baits and etc, and ultimately helping human beings live in harmony with wildlife the way we SHOULD be able to (we're just animals after all). Australia should be the next on their agenda but unfortunately no one cares to conserve the feral dogs of australia but me. To me they belong here just like aborigines but I'm fighting a losing battle trying to argue that point. Anyway, great thread and thank you!