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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  And there is the problem that standard |
It's NOT the Breed Standards that are ruining Breeds....it is how people are breeding and interpreting the Standards. Many times, and I know you have seen this too, people will breed by 'what the Confrontational Judges are putting up'. In other words, let's take GSD. There is a slight slope in the rear.....judges started, in about the late 1960s and 1970s to put up VERY sloped dogs, so people started breeding for THAT, rather than the total dog. This is the reason so many danged poor GSD are so ROACHED BACKED <yuk, I hate that look>. And I have SEEN judges (note no capital on that one) put up dogs that are so Roached Backed it looks absolutely painful and will be with old age!
Many judges, and NOT ALL, of course, and shame on the ones that do, put up off colors, for example, dogs with white on them that SHOULD NOT HAVE WHITE ON THEM (I just saw this in the GSD ring), wrong fur type, too tall, too short, and whatever else they, the judges, prefer to see on any breed.
A lot of it has to do with interpretation of the Standard. Not really knowing the breed but passing a written test for judging papers on that breed. The more breeds they can judge the more in demand at shows they are.
Please don't hate on dogs that are small, tiny, HATE THAT THE BREEDERS are breeding ONLY for that quality. Hate that breeders are breeding dogs that are small only because they are small.....
The bottom line should be HEALTH, we all know that. But size can not always be the factor in that.
Just because a Yorkie is bred tiny does not make it sickly. Nor! Because it is larger make it healthier.