Quote Originally Posted by cali
oh I know there are some show dogs that can work, but the work should be the primarly goal, if one wants to breed for a certain look it should be secondary to the work itself. the orgilnal intent of the conformation ring was to judge working dogs on their outward appearence, then some poeple got competive and decided to ignore the work and focas on the look, this is where the split began, then the people who started breeding for the certain look began to dominate in that aspect, and shadowed out the working bred, they atrted to believe that they were supierior, yet its they they deviated from the the real breed.

i'm sorry, but i think you have no idea what a beauty show is.
yes, breeds were made to achieve certain goals such as herding, hunting, retrieveing, etc.
when people stopped hunting for a living these breeds we're drastically reduced, until a bunch of people with a lot of money decided to give life to the breed once again.

without the necessity for hunting dogs, this group of people decided to compete for beauty, creating different lines to "fill the eye" of type judges. this got a little out of hand and then they realized that these dogs still needed the skills which they're bred to have.

so..don't be so sure that skills are the only purpose of a dog. if had it been that way, we wouldn't have any working breed this days.