While traditional grooming achieves to
conform with breed standards set by the official breed associations, creative grooming heads to the opposite direction, creating a unique, sometimes exquisite look.
Breed only for the purpose of improving the quality of the breed in
line with the breed standard and not for the retail pet market or any other commercial purpose.
The Staffordshire Terrier Club of America: (PDF) A description of the American Staffordshire Terrier,
along with the breed standard and a brief history.
Familiarity
with the breed standard helps in choosing a breeder and a puppy; if buyers understand the qualities and characteristics that differentiate a Samoyed from an American Eskimo or a Collie from a Shetland Sheepdog, they can not only make a more informed breed choice, they can judge whether the adult dogs at a kennel are likely to produce puppies that look and act like the breed they want.
Dogs with a breed standard may be accepted into one or more of the major registries (kennel clubs) of dog breeds include the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (covering 84 countries), The Kennel Club (UK), the Canadian Kennel Club, the American Kennel Club, the United Kennel Clubs International, the Australian National Kennel Council the New Zealand Kennel Club, and other national registries.
This check list should roll through your mind as you examine each dog and you must remember which dogs complied most
closely with the breed standard and correct canine anatomy and which dogs did not.
This will not be a conventional
breed with a breed standard, but will be a strain created in a research laboratory (and likely to be patented).
A Labrador Retriever's conformation is his overall structure and appearance, this reflects the dog's appearance and health being
inline with the breed standard.
Celebration Despite our divergence in the 1930's... despite choices that took us away from true dual type... despite exaggeration of appearance not
consonant with our breed standard... we have a great deal to celebrate as we look back.
With breed standards under fire — primarily those that have led to inbreeding and genetic health defects among some breeds — the practice of docking tails and cropping ears should be re-examined, too
After the death of Van Rooyen, a group of people who liked the breed came up
with a breed standard, which is virtually the same today.
Our charge for stud service reflects the dogs desirable disposition as well as the sire's conformation that whether shown or yet untried meets up
with breed standards.
On the other hand, the British Kennel Club regard a cream coat as perfectly acceptable in accordance
with their breed standard.
A narrow, pencil - like ridge, or a socalled «cow - lick», would not be in conformity
with the breed standard.
With breed standards in place, training becomes a unique challenge for some owners while others seem to breeze right through it.
They were first exhibited to France in 1907
with a breed standard, but then it was revised in 1908.
With a breed standard in place and regular shows up and down the country, you can register puppies with them providing both puppy's parents are also registered.