A spot of truth

There has been much written about the bad path of dog breeding.

Unfortunately, much of it has been written by the very people who are ruining dogs, to try to say that they aren't doing it wrong, that breeding unhealthy dogs that yap all day or who have bad tempers, is fine - so long as they win at the dog shows.

That Shaking Spear dude was right, it does often mean something when: The lady doth protest too much.

For Example, when looking through public domain photos of dogs, most of the bird dog photos were NOT of dogs on point or dogs fetching birds - they were show shots of posed dogs, or pet dogs.

For photos of bird dogs actually doing the work, what were the 2 close ups that I could find (in public domain), A poodle, and a cocker spaniel.

Now if you even know squat about bird dogs, you know those aren't common breeds among bird hunters. But it makes sense that these would be the only two breeds in public domain.

Why? A woman had inherited her parents things, including a box of photos. There was only one photo of the house she grew up in. The family took photos of each other, but almost none of the outside of the front of the house.

And the one photo of the house? The yard was covered in snow. I said that I didn't know it snowed there. She said that it didn't, it had only snowed once in 20 years. That being a rare event, they took a photo, but had no photos of the house as it normally was.

We photograph the unusual, the hunting poodle or cocker -but not so much the dogs that are the usual hunter's dogs.

But a great lot of the stuff out there on dogs, is propaganda by dog breeders, and the people who make money off of the status quo in dogs, and who fear change might upset their applecart.

Terrierman's blog tells it like it is.
http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com

Retrieverman is another good honest dog blog that I read.
http://retrieverman.workpress.com