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Kennel
Blindness
All breeders have
their favored characteristics and pet peeves. All are willing
to sacrifice the perfection of certain traits to consistently
achieve others they feel are more important. This “worldview”
on their chosen breed/s leads to a style and the emphasis of
certain traits within the correct type that breeder will be
known for (e.g. size, head type, longevity…etc.).
That many breeders
have deliberate styles of dogs is good for the breed; it
preserves the variety and strength for the breed However many
breeders fall foul of their own likes and dislikes, especially
at the beginning when they know little about the breed and
later on, as the years pass and they achieve some success,
having looked at the style they chose to breed so long they
think of it often as the breed itself.
If this quality is
combined with an intolerance for one’s rivals and/or for the
faults last liked and virtues most admired, a good line of
dogs will dwindle down to be more memory and reputation than a
still truly vital line producing excellent dogs.
Kennel
blindness is also an almost universal trait of the “Sour
Grapes Society”, those “wannabees” in a breed who have a
thousand excuses for why their dogs don’t succeed, all of them
due with the faults of other people and other people’s dogs.
It is also a major
trait in so-called “pet breeders” who tend to not self-educate
about the breed at all, so don’t really know much about the
breed they may well adore. They generally let their love for
their pets blind them to their breeding worth…or lack thereof.
This page is part of a message written and prepared by JP
Yousha for educational purposes only and may be reproduced to
further that end.
All copyrights remain with the author.
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