Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how you can condone this when you are an avid lover of Bichon Frise. Bichons are nowhere near "nature's way", either. Stout stature, high set tail, curly coat, abnormally small size, etc. (speaking purely in anatomical terms). Do you support the ending of the Bichon breed as we know it? Like Spiritwind already mentioned, NO dog or dog breed is natural.

I just fail to see how we, as natural lovers of certain breeds, can condone the essential destruction of their standards.

Yes, we do need to revamp certain breeding practices, but, if you actually read the standard of many popular breeds, many breeds today are not distorted BECAUSE of their standard. They are distorted due to unethical breeding practices. Standards rarely change for the same reasons that the good ol' Constitution rarely changes. What changes is our interpretation of the standard.

The RSPCA should not be deriding the standards themselves, but the actual breeding practices and ethics.

I've said this before on another forum, but I do think there is something very wrong with dog breeding in general today. However, calling certain breeds "unnatural" and advocating for the demolition of their standard is just a bit asinine. It's not the standard. It's the actual interpretation. Calling for the destruction/boycott of standards is targeting the wrong vice.