Perfection is BAD

Over on retrieverman today, you have probably read about early Golden Retriever Breeders rejecting the beautiful red-gold colored dogs, because they looked to much like the red setters (Irish Setters).

This is NOT at all unusual. I would call it standard practice in starting a breed of show dogs.

One group breeds the best dogs for some task, and this breed become popular.

Then some rogue comes in who admires that breed, but he wants to start up his own breed.

What can a person do to compete against perfection? Why they must breed imperfection, but call this a new and better trait.

Then the rogue breeder becomes popular, and the faults are considered THE HALLMARK OF THE BREED.