Mixes or Pure Breeds (Whats better?)

[Elnath]

Considering so few furs are proper representations of what a humanoid would look like had they evolved from something other than primates, (Like this guy http://testdesertmsw.blogspot.ca/2009_09_01_archive.html ) I say it's open season on cross breeding.
When I first got into the fandom 18 years ago, it seemed like if you weren't a dragon, you were probably a pure-bred of some sort. It's been a very natural progression how, as time's gone on, more and more crossbreeds have shown up.

As dragons go, they're particularly open to interpretation. Dragons are a broad enough category that they can start with the characteristics of anything you can imagine. Whether it be fox-like, reptilian, whale-like, etc.
On top of that, from the fantasy worlds I've been immersed in all my life, I've always considered it canon that dragons can breed with just about anything they please and produce offspring.

The majority of my furry socializing being on MUCKs, the biggest difficulty I have with some of the more exotic creatures, (and I'm as guilty of this with my gargoyle form as anyone,) is fully imagining what they look like by their written descriptions alone. Even if the writer is very skilled, it can be difficult to picture what is being described without some visual reference, especially if it's a long, complex description that I don't have time to really mull over if I want to get any socializing done.  I find that to be a bit of a turn off at times,  but it's not really that big of an issue.

Other than that, go nuts. Pure-bred is no better than cross-bred or vice versa. The furry fandom is about being who/what you want to be. Anyone who deems one type as 'more furry' than another doesn't belong.
You're always entitled to your preferences, but you'd be wrong to ostracize someone for the form they've chosen to represent themselves in a fantasy setting. There's too much of that over the forms we don't get to choose for ourselves in our real lives.
I'd go as far as to include humans. So long as the player is interested in the furry fandom, I don't see why they shouldn't be allowed in just because they're more comfortable with a human form.

[Drake Wingfire]

This is the side I dislike about my species, at least kinda the furry take on it because the idea of a dragon becomes rather hollow in some parts of the fandom. People try and make them everything. (stretching the species to far and spreading it too thin) They become  very prone to becoming the "token" part of another species IE: slap horns on any other species and now say you are half dragon...  Caninine-Canine hybrids and other similar species ones don't suffer this cause they are not usually playing two sides of a coin, you don't hear that "hehe my husky side is showing today!" like you would hear of like dragon-whatever hybrids who seem to use it as this "I am cute and fluffy now, but I am part dragon so I am evil and raawwrrr if you make me mad" -.=.- *head desks* lol may as well be a Hulk-Fox hybrid "I may be naughty and cute now.. but you don't wanna make me angry or fox smash!!!" lol

So I guess what I am getting at is extreme mixes often show more like two fursonas rather than one hybrid of the two cause there is often this mentality and personality duality of being cute one minute and then some "grrr rawrrr, beast" stereotype the next. Not really a dragon hybrid more as someone who just like to vaguely play a dragon character now and then but is primary something else but they didn't like the idea of two chars. At least with how I tend to see it acted out.

[Elnath]

Never really encountered that before. But I was practically raised by the Dragon community, so furs were more token. The dragons were the norm and all very diverse .

[Drake Wingfire]

The Draconic community does have there variants, but given the more personal significance of their identity (usually with more wanting to keep it purely dragon) there were not too many extremes, dragon-dragon hybrids for sure but that still equals another dragon. It seems we had the same start, I was a dragon years before I bridged the gap over to the furry community. But despite my recent critiques and complaints, I do love it here. ^.=.^

I do agree and admit as far as we dragons go, there is a LOT of leeway in regards to shape, size, color, features, its hard to ever find two who are alike.. actually.. I did find my clone once on FA. Lol

Me: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/drakewingfire/
Guy similar to me: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/drakiah/