I agree about the ears being easier to breed out than getting a good coat. I also figure or hope that as the first breeder is no-longer showing himself then I would not be in direct competition with anything he would be campagning himself. Sometimes I think your mentor based system seams so much less complecated as it can be that unless you are on very good terms with a breeder over here you will never get a really top quality dog.
Below are pictures of the two girls I got from the two breeders. The second looks much better for shape, topline etc but her elbows turned out due to to much rib and was too small to reproduce. The third was my homebred girl, out of the first bitch. |