A discussion on kennel blindness - Page 1

Please describe what you think it means and give examples.

Overlooking obvious faults in your breeding program be they conformational, or temperment. 

Beside the above... breeding what YOU like in a dog, instead of what the breed should be.

Beside the above... breeding what YOU like in a dog, instead of what the breed should be.

I think every breeder breeds what they like in a dog.  They have their idea of what the breed should be and make enhance on certain things they feel are important.  Hence there are many different breeders using different lines.  Everyone has their idea of what the breed should be.  Wht they breed is their "interpretation".

So, if you meet the breed sandard, is there still such a thing?

that is the thing, no one can agree on what the breed standard is as everyone has their own interpretation.

I'm pretty sure it (the standard) is written down somewhere. At least a handful of somewheres, lol!  I thought kennel blindness meant turning a blind eye to any genetic faults that are produced within certain kennel "lines". Especially if they were winners first, and genetic tragedies, after that fact. Like hemophelia, for an example from Canto.

 I am going to plea the 5th on this one.......      :)

so I removed my post & won't comment on it,

but thank you for the information, good post.

kennel blindness definition 
- "all of my dogs are perfect and the judge doesn't know what he's taking about".

at shows, its so common to hear this from so many different owners.

 Daryl:

  IS kennel blindness what you have because you bred Nyx two times now and have no health or ofa and she is not registered.. AND now have 12 pups on ground and 5 still left from her last litter.

   So why are you asking this Kennel BLINDNESS question ? SO you think you breed with no rules that we should accept it..

  NYX is just now two in November and you have two litters by her?

  EXPLAIN what you mean here by Kennel blindness and if it is worrying you because you feel differently as you breed for you only ?   I thought you sold a few and surely you do not plan to keep all 12 of these dogs in your back yard and the others you still have.. Hutch is not OFA either is he ?
So I am very confused as to why you posted this thread??



Yr