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Old 06-10-2010, 06:33 PM   #26 (permalink)
Mikey T
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well cared for pup out of good blood lines
because they really don't exist in the casual bred dog. Any quality in the "blood line" is either generations old or that quality is not reflexed in the sire or dam. It is a very rare casual breed that keeps in touch with the Breadth of the bloddline to insure that genetic or orther problems are not showing up.


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Meaning that even reputable breeders are pushing each breed toward different end results as dictated by their agendas, diverging the standard of the breed depending on their preference, same way a casual breeder might.
that is not the case because with show breeder ( not every show breeder is reputable and the fact that a breeder is shows is not the end all of a breeding progran just one aspect) is that there is constraint put on the individual breeder by the "colective of breeders" that is while a breed does change over time it does so in a controled and consensus fashion. Without such constraint what a breed look likes is free to change much more rapidly and with much more divergence from each other. One also need to keep in mind the breed standard of the major registraion bodies in N.A. and across the world are remarkably similar along with automatic cross registration Champions in multiple registration ie CAN/AM champions are quite common so you assumption of wide disperity between registries and end results is greatly exagerated.
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