Healthy breed standards are essential for healthy dog breeding.
In conformation shows, breeds are judged, males and females separately, against the ideal of the breed standards, and since animals are considered as breeding stock, they must be intact (not spayed or neutered).
Regional agricultural committees (hushållningssällskap) were given the authority to create breeding plans and prioritise the use of bulls that met breed standards in Sweden.
Mark Evans, the chief veterinary advisor for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), said, "Dog shows using current breed standards as the main judging criteria actively encourage both the intentional breeding of deformed and disabled dogs and the inbreeding of closely related animals"; this opinion was seconded by the Scottish SPCA.
Building an acceptable cat isn't easy; TICA's breed standards are as exacting as the manual for an intercontinental bomber.
Nor do our cruelties end with the animals we eat: the tails (and ears and claws) of millions of dogs are severed under the banner of arcane "breed standards" -- to the benefit of their breeders' wallets and their owners' vanity.
But the secretary of one brachycephalic breed owners' club, who preferred not to be named, criticised the Kennel Club, saying the organisation registered puppies despite their diverging from recognised breed standards.
Some of her litters were registered with the American Kennel Club, a stamp of approval from an organization charged with maintaining breed standards and registering purebreds around the country.
Dog show, competition in which purebred dogs are judged on the basis of their physical perfection as determined by breed standards or on performance criteria such as agility, tracking, obedience, or herding.
Judges from the Kennel Club mark the dogs according to the criteria of their individual breed standards.
If you read the breed standards, personality is often in there.
