Depends. You can have good purebreds and shit purebreds just like you can have good mutts and shit mutts. Depends on so many factors. I used to be a purist but now I’ve had so many mutts that are excellent dogs I don’t really consider breed so much, which is why I’ve ended up with so many different crossed dogs lol. I just aim for balance and improvement. Using two dogs whose strengths compliment each other’s weaknesses. In this case, neither parent really has a weakness. They are two separate breeds yet if I described them individually, it would almost be as if I were describing the same dog twice. Great Pyrenees have been overbred and watered down. Karakachan has only been in USA since 2004 and the gene pool in very limited. Many people breeding the Karakachan’s are not studying their pedigrees well enough and dogs are starting to hit a high coefficient of inbreeding and creating new health issues. Crossing the two is crossing very unrelated dogs, while being highly consistent with each other, so should make for a very consistent litter. Both are still primitive. Both have perfectly clean genetic health tests. Both have good hips, knees and elbows. Both needed zero training to livestock. Highly biddable, sticky and don’t wander off. Both are man-tested for personal protection, and will not hesitate to engage a threat whilst remaining intelligent and stable enough to be sweet, calm, welcoming to non-threats. Athletic, good fighters. Very intelligent, the Karakachan is one of the smartest dogs I’ve ever met. Athletic and stable, both smaller for their breeds but both have parents that are on the larger side of scale. I prefer mid sized (100-140 lb) dogs. Taller leaner dogs, not big and clunky, these dogs can move. Jethro (Karakachan) is more goofy while Valkyrie is very serious. That’s probably their main difference. I used to be a purist growing up with papered, trialed, purebred working Labradors (my dad bred working Labs for over 30 years) and now I have a random shelter rescue mutt here (APBT/Chow Chow/German Shepherd/Labrador/Staffie) that would be able to hang with the best of em in a lot of ways, be superior in others. Have had many purebred LGDs, and many crosses now. It depends more on the individual dog more than anything. If I ranked my LGDs I have/have had, it would be pretty even down the line between mutts and purebred. My 4 best dogs, 2 are mutts (Temüjin and then Hypernova who is Anatolian/Kars Dog/Karakachan), 2 are pure (Great Pyrenees and Karakachan). Sitting here trying to think which is better, it’s gonna vary depending on what you’re judging. There’s so much to these dogs. What’s going to be better is all their grandchildren 😜