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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>What you are looking for are "Show
Potential".Nothing is cut and dried.If you understand the Standard and the what
it describes you can intelligently choose one or two hopefuls. You
develop "an eye"which just means by looking carefully at a puppy you
can see how it is growing,evaluate how it gaits, or has an "Attitude" that is
conducive to what you want to see in a show dog. What qualifies as a pet can be
something as minor as a turned out foot,an off bite,a
sloping topline,shoulders to far forward etc. Then there are major faults
that prohibit a dog from the show ring(different things for different
breeds),for bassets it is long hair, over 15 inches in height at the shoulders.
Some call it a crap shoot but puppies can be evaluated in a way to give you
the best possibility of picking a show potential.Sometimes it helps if you have
several people evaluating the litter. Once one or two is picked they are kept
longer to see if they grow into what you kept them for. Somebody else may word
all this differently but you get the idea. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>