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Originally Posted by Britster

I also think that people get fooled a lot of times. They see AKC pups for $2500 and automatically think "OH these must be good!!" when that's not the case! More $$$ doesn't always = better. I don't really give a hoot about breed standard, papers and all that personally. But I do want to see that dogs are being health tested, proved capable of their work (if a working breed) and people DOING things with their dogs.

I would rather go to a breeder who maybe doesn't do AKC showing but who has her dogs living in her house, like family, who health tests for things prevalent in the breed, who works with her dog (whether it be agility, rally, therapy, dock diving, search/rescue, whatever it is that breed may excel at) and proves they are capable of what they were bred to do and doesn't just throw one dog together with another one.

What's the point of having a German Shepherd who has won multiple titles in the ring but wouldn't be capable of any work because he walks like a frog, because that's what the AKC judges like to see and know will win? So they breed for these traits that make it a harder life for the dog... so many bulldogs can hardly breathe or walk, all Cavaliers are doomed to be plagued with heart problems by the age of 8-10, and almost all die from it.

I am kind of on the fence with everything.... because sometimes I think the showing world can be a little ridiculous. But I do understand the importance of a breed standard. If we didn't have them, then Golden Retrievers wouldn't be Golden Retrievers and Border Terriers wouldn't be Border Terriers. People are attracted to different breeds for different reasons, qualities, etc. So we need something like the AKC monitoring this stuff, but at the same time... it can be so sketchy.

I dunno... kind of just rambling, maybe going a little OT.

Well thats the thing with other breeds bad breeding got all the way up to the show breeders and it determined what the breed became. It is happening with yorkies too not all show breeders are breeding for the healthiest possible yorkie anymore we have seen it on here. Thats what I mean when I say I dont want to be a part of the further decline of the yorkie breed because just look what it did to other breeds