I have mixed feelings about this, people want a pedigree pet, but they want it to look different than all the rest, and breeders are supplying that market. One hundred years ago, it was a status symbol to have a pedigree dog, and breeders were striving to get the offspring to look like the breed, I just think the pendulum has swung so far in the other direction that it sounds like somebody thinks this might help get more uniformity into the gene pool, but like Gail says it also is limiting the gene pool, and that could prove disastrous. Too bad so many uneducated people, who have no love for the breed, are breeding. |