Giving it a go (or a heave-ho)
For the people in the small upper percentile, who know what the problems in dog breeding are, have some big picture of the situation at the breeder level, AND who care enough to want to improve dog breeding -
- but for some reason don't want to send the old structure into the trash bin, I am going to try to write a patch up job.
I don't know that it can be done. The world is full of greater minds than mine - and no one has done it yet, but then it doesn't look as if anyone has tried.
My ego is NOT so grand, that I think I can do this, but I am going to try, and if anyone comes along and takes it to the next step, that'll be good with me.
So consider it a first rough draft - that I am letting the public read - not so much because it is great, or even good, but because nothing will get done, unless people try.
I have written about some of the problems (below), now I am going to try to find a few answers, or rather, a few possibilities that might be worth discussing.
I have no idea where this will lead. I might give up after a short while, but for right now, I am going to try to be helpful, and constructive not destructive - although I won't hesitate to conclude that the whole system will never meet my standards and should go down, if I can not find a step by step way to chart a course for improvements.
So lets start off with the assumption that dog shows could be useful to the future of dogs, and that it is possible to divide dogs into separate breeds and still have things go well. (Start with the least likely scenario?).