Anyone who stops getting better has stopped being good."
(Richard Schmitz 1937)
HEALTH - BEING - BEAUTY
Every breeding goal should set these standards.
If you take a closer look at the points, you will quickly see how far-reaching the individual topics are. The relative concept of beauty will quickly fade into the background for the serious breeder, while health and the nature of the beloved breed will and should always be the main focus.
Just a pretty phenotype (external appearance) is not the most important feature that a responsible breeder should consider.
We have deliberately chosen the order in the above list; it is intended to show what we think and do in our small breeding program.
From our own experience we can only say that buying a puppy from supposedly best breeding lines resulted in particularly high quality pedigree animals... defective and even sick dogs.
In our opinion, a good, healthy and solid structure of a breeding stock should not only be based on the highly awarded and mostly externally viewed beauty queens, but primarily on well-bred, healthy, stable and standard-compliant pedigree dogs.
The exterior (phenotype) does not reveal everything that is hidden in the genes (genotype)... this is where the breeding experience, the corresponding sensitivity and the enormous knowledge of a pure breeder come into play.