Pedigree? No, inbred.

My husband bought a chocolate labrador 2 years ago, she's adorable...but what with her exorbitant price tag of £600, monthly insurance of £25 per month, special vets food £30 per month, special shampoo, worm medicine, flea and tick treatments,kennel fees (and medication before she is accepted by the kennels eg kennel cough vaccination) excess insurance fees before vetinary assistance is possible, and the accepted fact that most pedigree dogs have innate imperfections due to their incest tainted origination and therefore are highly likely (particularly labs)to require expensive operations
to correct inbred flaws such as weak hind legs, something which doesn't routinely happen in mongrels (same with humans, thing go terribly wrong when humans breed with relatives, the wider the gene pool the healthier the product) so Roxy the chocolate lab has proved an expensive addition to the family...
wheras my three rescued moggies don't require rubbish like 'pet insurance'..theycost me nothing to aquire (just a donation to the rescue centre)
I get high quality dried food from Aldi to feed three of them, cost is £8 a month...the only other necessary expenditure has been new flea collars every four months,(£2 each adds up to £6 every four months) and deworming droplets every six months, cost £12 per year....total to look after 3 cats :
£10.80 per month for 3 stunningly beautiful affectionate conscious clean independent creatures....oh yes....and you don't need kennels!!!
my nieghbour will fill a large bowl outside the back door cat flap every 3 days when we're on holiday, all for a bottle of red wine!! (the cattery is £11 per day per cat...that's £33 per day!!)Moggies are cool, so healthy....moggies rule...and my advise in these days of austerity? if you get a dog, get a mongrel and feed him household scraps...you'll get the same companionship and will always have company on a walk without the heavy price tag...I mean....does it really matter if an animal is not 'pedigree'? What's 'pedigree' anyway? it's not a natural phenomenon...it's just pretentious nonsense...the animal equivalentof eugenics!!!
And I do realise that mybeloved moggies may need to see a vet sometime, I would never ever ever allow them to suffer... but i'll take my chances...if they got run over they would probably have to be put to sleep as the kindest thing anyway...I've had them 7 years and so far so good...I could have spent over £2000 on unnecessary insurance by now...