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Originally Posted by kelkiss5  Well the breed clubs set a standard for each and every breed. If your dogs fits into this standard, well isn't that a standard dog. I mean you don't have to show it to prove it.
I understand that showing is a different cattle of fish. But if my yorkies are standard, well they are just as good as the next standard show Yorkie. |
I think if you reread Brooklynn's posts, you'll see she gives a fabulous explanation of how it takes someone with years of experience evaluating dogs to be able to truly judge if a dog meets the standard or not.
One of my bow customers is a small Maltese show breeder. She has a litter of four males she has been watching to keep one for herself. She had one all picked out, was sure he was "the one". She took them all to a recent show and had them evaluated. She found out that while all three had show possibilities, one stood way out as a dog she could probably put in the ring. It wasn't the one she had picked herself.
