Exactly! Mixing compatible breeds make good dogs. The others make me sad. You need to get a Feist someday. Big dog in a little dog body. They are not a frou-frou dog.
This is my little Gypsy, a Portuguese Podengo Medio.
They are used as rabbit and vermin dogs in their native land and here, by Portuguese immigrants.
That is Bubby, who was 8 weeks old, there so you can see how small she is.
*However*, he and all my other Dobes live in fear of her because I call her the little Velociraptor.
She IS the boss dog, here
She's old now and slowing down but she was once a vermin killer without equal.
Just the other day I had dig a dead mouse she had killed and left laying around somewhere out of my boy Dobe's mouth, so she still has spunk left in her, even at pushing 14
[she used to kill mice and feed them to Bubby, who was "her puppy", so I always had tapeworm tabs on hand]