Why is that people seem to have a need to change things, if a breed is small then it must changed into a teacup if the breed is large then it has to be made larger. If it is black then it has to be changed till it is white, if white the perhaps we could ask more for it if it was silver. If the breed has a large head with folds of skin, then someone will try for a bigger head and more loose skin.

Why do they do it, because they can, because there is a market, they think they are improving the breed, for health, for money?

Well what do you think? Why do people breed a non-standard dog and then sell it as, or tell people it is, rare, are they greedy or just trying to cover up their mistake when breeding without proper care?

What worries me is that whilst you are concentrating on breeding for one particular thing, like colour or head size, what happens to the rest of the animal, and do they care. It also worries me that they will breed very tight, within their own gene pool in order to produce the wanted trait, do all these ‘breeders’ have the necessary genetic knowledge to do this without determent to the breed or the breed type they are trying to create.

As they said in my youth, discuss please.

I think a lot of it is to do with money. Convince people it's the latest fashion, charge the earth, then go on to the next project leaving others to pick up the pieces.

Most the breeders I know will try to change what they breed to the extent that they will try to improve what they see in the dogs they own, but always within the standard.

If we ignore the standard surely in the end there will not be breeds as such, there will be Mrs Jones gundogs or Mr Smiths gundogs and Mrs Blacks gundogs, all gundogs, all able to do a days work but not a breed as such because Mrs Jones, Mr Smith and Mrs Black will have produced what they personally wish to see in their dog and the dogs may well have little resemblance one to the other.

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Money is the reason. If a breeder can claim they have a "rare" breed or type than it means more dosh.

Stacey

What if the said breeder does not sell these puppies, does that change your views?

But a lot of the adverts say *rare* colour ......

If the breeder doesn't sell them, what on earth do they do with them?