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LOL, I know what you are saying.  I kept trying to convince a friend of mine to get a third lab so he'd have one of each color!

Nah, i like the variety. I love a lot of breeds... i wouldn't want to limit myself to just one! I wouldn't mind having a red dobie too though. But i'm definitely at my dog limit! Plus, Wyatt's good for taking naps and being a "porch dog", Josie's my dog to take everywhere, and Kaiser's my buddy to jog/hike/play with.

I had matching black Labs for years and I have to say that I love my mismatched trio of today.

 Variety is the spice of life :)  I love Flat Coats and we have Ari now.  I can see myself getting another Flat Coat at some point, but our next dog we already agreed we'd like to adopt/rescue.  What matters to me is temperment and similiar activity levels, not so much same breed and/or looks.  We are both very much about being able to bring a dog with us outside for romping around (hiking, swimming, running - well the SO runs lol).  Our next dog has to get along with Ari (not too hard there's only been one dog she wasn't crazy about and it wasn't an issue she just ignored her) and be of similiar activity.  If we didn't bring another romp loving, fun loving dog into the house, it wouldn't be a good match for Miss Ari or us for that matter.

With everything else I am a bit obsessive compulsive about things matching or being "even".I've given away perfectly good items because they did not fit in with the rest.Somehow with animals I feel it isn't ever possible to match them because each is so unique so I feel different is better if that makes any sense.

Tena

 I don't know about matching, but I have to have odd numbers - 3 dogs 3 cats.  I like 3, feels like a "pack" but is easily manageable.

My two are nothing alike and it doesn't bother me in the least.

The only difficulty their size difference causes is when we go rollerblading -- Luke gets held back to a comfortable speed for Kaiser, which is about 1/4 of the speed he'd like to go. 

I have an organized mishmash of dogs.  A pair of Doxies, a pair of Boxers, a pair of Dobes, & a lone mutt.  Soon, one of the Dobes will be leaving so we won't be quite as paired off.

Strangely, even though I have dogs of the same breeds, they don't pair off together.

 Doesn't bother me a bit, and Sequoyah says real dogs dont' have tails anyway;-)  She also thinks she'd look funny with hound ears, and Maska would be ridiculous in Sioux's luxurious coat.  No one wants to weigh 6 pounds like Fergie...although Fergie doesn't have a clue that six pounds isn't sixty pounds.

Absolutely NOT - in fact it bothers ME tremendously when people think everything has to "match" -- I hate to see human twins dressed alike, I hate to see people get another of the same breed just because they "match". 

It diminishes the individual -- if you're talking about your purse and your shoes FINE.  Match if *you* want to.  But don't feel compelled -- THAT is bondage dear.  It's all externals.  It matters not beyond this moment in time.

If you want another of a certain breed just because you LOVE that breed and it fits with your life, great.  Do it.  But PLEASE don't just try to have bookends.  (Stuffed toys are cheaper and don't require vet bills.)

They are individuals.  They are absolutely unique. Dogs and humans aren't accessories.  They love, they hurt, they each choose US to love (not because we matched the other human we live with!!)

I know I come on strong with this but I guess because I've always been somewhat handicapped it was very easy to feel like I didn't measure up because I wasn't perfect.  And that's just plain wrong.  I'm ME ... I'm the culmination of all my experiences and all my genetics.  I LIKE me.  Just as I am.

In kindergarten two of my best friends were twins.  To me they were complete individuals.  Mark was Mark and Mike was Mike.  The two of them even at that age began to be hurt when people spoke of them as tho MarkandMike were one person. 

I can do no less for dogs.  We picked Billy after a long, hard search -- we nearly didn't take him BECAUSE he was a buffy coat cocker and Muffin the Intrepid had been a buffy cocker.  Muffin was a complete and incredibly wonderful inique individual -- it was actually that Foxy wanted Billy that made us take him.

Luna we CHOSE because she was perfect for what we wanted to do, and she was something different.  An opportunity to learn and grow.

Kee we took because she needed US.  It "fit" -- her breed had absolutely zero to do with it (it was actually a concern ... but her personality won her a place with us).

Tinkerbell -- Ms. Fairy Dust herself -- she needed us.  We decided a project would be healthy.

Why would anyone care about "matching" breeds?  Honestly I just can't glom onto that -- how can love "match" -- unless they are only ornaments?

Life is a gift.  The extreme absolutely ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME gift.  There will never EVER be another of either of your two dogs. 

If you want to "match" buy them matching collars or coats.  That's external.  But let them be unique.  And by golly -- if one of them is rough and tumble and would rather play in the mud and the other likes their hair brushed and neatness -- they don't make them wear the same collar either *grin* ...  My four fit together perfectly because we're a family. A family specially chosen to be together and love each other.

We love them all...... I dont care if they match and if I thought I could give them all quality lives I would have a whole bunch more!  

I would rather not match! I love to many different breeds and want to have the experience of owning different breeds to worry about matching. So many dogs are gorgeous in their own ways. 

My beagle and rottweiler certainly don't mix - but they are best friends!

I like my mismatched group

I love my mismatched group.  And I will most likely always have a mismatched group as we are shelter dog kind of people.  At one time we have had a greyhound mix, a GSD/cattledog mix, a beagle/terrier mix, and a pom.  So that's about 7 breeds in 4 dogs. LOL  And they probably all have at least another mix in them somewhere.