27/09/2025
Fake Breeders need to read this if they can read correctly .. ๐ซก๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐ซถ๐ฏ๐ช๐๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฅ๐ Especially Exotic Bully Breeders ..
Normalisation in Dog Breeds, by Louis Donald
In show dogs, one of the most insidious trends is normalisation. This occurs when a characteristic that runs contrary to the breed standard, nearly always an exaggeration, becomes so widespread that it no longer draws objection. Instead of being identified as a fault, it begins to pass as โnormal,โ because many dogs in the ring share it.
Over time, what was once criticised becomes tolerated, accepted, and then even celebrated. Many judges and breeders start to view the trait as desirable, simply because it dominates the gene pool and consequently the show ring and its winners. Any attempt to call it out meets resistance, as though the critic is out of touch with โmodern type.โ
This process quietly, almost without notice, shifts the breed away from its written blueprint. Features like excessive hind angulation and its consequent hind limb instability, curved backlines, large size, exaggerated head shapes and excessive coat length illustrate the danger. What should be recognised as departures from the standard are rewarded, perpetuated, and defended.
Normalisation doesnโt happen overnight, it creeps in slowly, it is insidious and stealth like, one show season at a time. But left unchecked, it alters the essence of a breed, changing its type, sometimes beyond recovery.
The antidote is awareness and vigilance: remembering that the breed standard, not your personal opinion too often driven by self interest or the show ring fashion of the day, is the measure of correctness.
Can a normalized characteristic be reversed? With the general principle that is applied to dog shows that the dog should by judged in a complete context, aka โnot fault judgingโ and โdont throw the baby out with the bathwaterโ, and that the majority of owners dogs have the characteristic, and some are judges, not easily and sometimes impossible, irreversible! (Benmar's Macho of Roadhouse in the photo) .
