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[PyrNet-L] Breeding
Hi Joe,
I think my old Dad and Doris probably went
to the same school!! He was famous for making such statements too.
Interesting reading the
posts this morning (NZ time). I've just visited again the GPC site and re-read
the Breed Standard. Very little difference to the other 2 standards and one word
that is applicable to all 3 standards is the word "Balance". A
dog must be balanced back and front. This balance comes from firstly a leg in
each corner, hopefully all of the same length!! On top of that a body which is
slightly longer than the height of the dog giving plenty of heart and lung room
for a working dog. A moderate length of neck with a small amount of dewlap
permitted, head on top, tail at other end. It's what goes in between that causes
the problem and this is Breed Type. There is another type around and
that's known as Kennel type where Breeders will not go out of their back door
and search for a stud dog to compliment,maintain and enhance what they already
have.(For example) look at the number of Pyrs imported into America by Mary
Crane, into the UK by Madam Harper and even into a wee place like this (from
1947) . It amazes me that these Pyrs all came by boat, journeys of weeks and
months yet today can be in another country in a matter of hours. These ladies
knew that to keep up the standards they had to have new blood every so often and
went to great expense to ensure this was so yet today we are all guilty of maybe
not looking hard enough at other folks' Pyrs and seeing what their stock could
do for our Breeding. They don't have to be your best buddies but they may well
have bred an outstanding dog, lovely head, height, breed type but we seem to be
hesitant to ask maybe for fear of being knocked back and then we don't ask at
all and the Breed could well be the loser in the end.
The height factor (too
little, too much) has been around for a long time and it's just one of many
areas we've all discussed over the years along with heads, bone, structure,
coats etc and Pyrnet seems to me to be a great place to read about all these
things as a learning process as to how we can do our best for our
Breed.
Thankyou for reading!!