Carrot varieties

These are all carrots, but so are all of these:

Golden Retrievers need they all be carrot colored? Can some be white or yellow, or black?

Why not call them all varieties of Flatcoats (please rename them Silkcoats or something prettier sounding than “Flatcoats”). Then show them as color varieties of the same breed. That way you preserve the rich Goldens, the yellow Goldens, the flat Blacks, and the Creams.

Or would that be too simple?

As for the show/field split, as Retrieverman said: The horse has left the barn. (and) like Humpty Dumpty the pieces aren’t going back together again.

The field breds need to split from the show breds, then clumped with other field breds as “Bird Dogs” – variety “Retriever” – color “Deep Gold”.

That sound about right?

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Cute Veggie Mutation.

Why are people attracted to the different? Studies have shown that only very young infants look longer at the average, than at the strange. Once a baby knows how things usually are, then they stare at what is different.

This is one of the basic traps that people selling pets have for people buying pets. (Yeah, I use to breed pets.)

Some customers crave something different (so long as it has some stamp of approval, so it is a breed of animals with mutations, not just one animal with a spontaneous mutation).

Some customers look for an animal just like the one on TV or in a book.

Selling what is strange but popular? Like English Bulldogs with health problems? Pugs that can hardly breathe? Chihuahuas with holes in their heads? People will pay good money for these.

Why are people so stupid? So mis-informed? Can’t people see that they are buying mutated dogs? Don’t they know that all of the problem isn’t always visible? Duh!

Sell puppies whose parents drool & shed? People will buy them!

Realize that the breeds are too inbred, and cross breed? Most buyers aren’t sophisticated enough to know how to buy designer dogs (hybrid dogs).

To many people, a cross bred puppy is the same as a mutt, or multiple mix bred puppy. Even purebred dog breeders usually know absolutely nothing about cross breeding.

But at least a mix or a mutt is less likely to be inbred, where purebreds, by definition, are not in a general dog gene pool anymore.

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