[MyFairLacy]

After reading today's posts, I wanted to add this: When show quality dogs are being bred, usually all puppies produced are great specimans of the breed. The ones placed in pet homes normally just have a couple flaws or as Mardelin said - doesn't have that "It" factor that they want to keep in their breeding program. For instance, my cat had one flaw - her nose was a little too long - so her breeder placed her in a pet home. That didn't mean she wasn't a good represantation of the breed, because she is..it meant she had a flaw that kept her from being the "best of the best". The "Pet-Quality" puppies born to two show-quality dogs will almost always be better specimans than the Pet-quality puppies born to two Pet-quality dogs. Those who breed show-quality dogs are bettering the breed because they are breeding the best of the best in attempts to get the best puppies they can. So they are continuously producing excellent puppies. Those that deviate from the standard are spay and neutered so that they aren't bred, because if you breed those two dogs with a few faults, you'll most likely get puppies with a few more faults. And then those puppies are bred and you'll get puppies with even more faults. Eventually you have puppies that are so far from standard that they don't look like yorkies anymore.