Thread: Bracco Italiano

Originally Posted by Ruff

This is a gundog forum, that makes it diametrically opposed to ANYTHING to do with show dogs. Mentioning show dogs in here is like mentioning porch chop recipes in a synagogue!

The revised breed standards of the NZKC, taken from the UK, are indeed bereft in construction unlike the previous breed standards ... the only way to make any sense of a breed standard is to have the one from which the country of origin abides to ...

If anyone breeding purebred dogs cannot at least skim through a breed standard from the country of origin then to my mind they are the very ones to wreck a breed ... and if you cannot get a dog that is at least correct to its breed standard (considering the cost of a pup) it is simply not good enough ... this is my opinion and I am sticking to it ...!!

Originally Posted by EeeBees

The revised breed standards of the NZKC, taken from the UK, are indeed bereft in construction unlike the previous breed standards ... the only way to make any sense of a breed standard is to have the one from which the country of origin abides to ...

If anyone breeding purebred dogs cannot at least skim through a breed standard from the country of origin then to my mind they are the very ones to wreck a breed ... and if you cannot get a dog that is at least correct to its breed standard (considering the cost of a pup) it is simply not good enough ... this is my opinion and I am sticking to it ...!!

You see, you still completely miss that it is FUNDEMENTAL purpose that has to be judged, not whether it's back is perfectly straight. No form of performance will ever be judged in a show ring and so there is no benchmark to gauge a show dogs potential to work and no inclusion in any breeding program to improve working traits, unless it trials at the highest standard and in most instances in NZ our trials are not that high of standard anyway, the pigeon trials especially have slowly been changed to suits specific dogs... so guess what people are breeding, whether they are the best gundogs or not.

This is where i am a little different from most dog nutters. My driving force, what I am about, is good working dogs working. I don;t care about bloody tweed, beauty pageants for dogs, and as time goes by I increasingly have little time for trials which are beginning to test trial dogs and NOT hunting dogs.

The first most important step in diminishing the integrity of a breed and the purpose it was designed for is to apply a breed standard to the animal. I can provide dozens, or more, exa,ple of everything from [pigeons, cattle. roosters, rabbits, goats, dogs cats who have had the initial integrity 100% compromised due to someone trying to judge them against a standard. The standard is, or should be.... WORK. I want a hunting dog, not a bloody show pony. But I respect your right to play your own game with your french pointers, speak to them in french, champion their show titles and produce bugger all for a hunter that just wants a bloody good dog.