[lillymae]

Originally Posted by gemy

I truly wish you the best of luck in your search! I just want to empathsize a point that was made earlier, you don't go to a show breeder to get as a pet owner a "show quality dog, you go for a number of reasons. To get as healthy a pet dog, that is of very sound temperament and structure, that is a good representative of the breed. You go there to support the breeders who do their darndest to breed to the standard and all that entails. If earset is slightly off, and bite, and tail-set, that puppy might be placed as a pet dog. But to the in-experienced eye, this dog will look amazing as an adult dog, be sound in body and in health and have the correct temperament to boot!

Just as a point of maybe interest to you, until I came to this board 4 or so years ago, I did not realize that there was such a huge divide between show breeders and non show breeders, in fact as a breeder of a rare-breed we are all Show Breeders! That was my experience until I came here.

I know of no Show Breeder of any purebred dog who would deliberately breed off standard colors of any breed. For it is our passion and our love and our commitment to breed to the Standard of our chosen breed.

Very good Post here.