Echo View Dalmatians

A huge thank you to Pam Garrett Sheane for creating this new ad for CDF for this weeks issue.
Watch for Jade at Upcoming shows!

Just look at this smile!
Karma is loving retirement and is now looking for a soft place to land. Either a home with a well socialized male dog or only dog.
Karma has been spayed and is up to date on all her shots/deworming and rabies.
Adoption fee is $500.00.
Visit Karma's personal page at this link
https://www.echoview.ca/karma
Contact me for more information either pm or email me at [email protected]

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Thank you JumpStart Imagery - Candid Dog Show Photos by Lisa Wysminity for capturing our little Homebred, Breeder/owner/handled liver girl, Derby at her first ever Baby puppy show in Edmonton this past weekend. Derby earned herself a Best baby Puppy in Group! Cathy French Photography managed to snap a photo of Derby with the judge and her BBPG rosette.
Lisa will keep digging to see if she was lucky enough to capture Scandal with Darryl.

Following in her Dams pawprints!
EKC was a fun show this year and Jade managed to earn 3 Best of Breeds over top winning Dalmatians for a Hat Trick and also snagged 2 Group 4ths at 16 months of age!
Thanks to all the judges that saw the quality in this young Bitch.
This may be a late start this year, so we'll just have fun and get serious next year.
Jade had a very short but Successful puppy Career in 2025.
https://www.echoview.ca/jade

“Shared from Exhibitors Choice and Voice."

Love for the Breed, or Just Winning Dog Shows?

Walk the back lot at any dog show and you'll see two completely different sports happening on the same grass.
In one, a handler sits on the tailgate of a van with a 10-year-old retired champion asleep with his head in her lap. His muzzle is white. He will never go in the ring again. She drove six hours to be here, paid the entry fee, and is nervous anyway, because the young bitch in the crate behind her is his granddaughter, and she wants more than anything for a judge to see what she sees in her.
In the other, a dog is being presented. Perfectly groomed, perfectly stacked, perfectly advertised. It was bought, campaigned, handled, and photographed into importance. The win matters. What happens to the dog after the win is less clear.
Both people get the same blue ribbon. From the bleachers, you can't tell them apart. Up close, you never mistake one for the other.
The case for the show.

The original idea of a dog show was never supposed to be a beauty contest. It was supposed to be a breed inventory.

Can this dog still do the job its breed was created to do? Can the retriever still retrieve, in body and temperament? Can the terrier still fit in a hole and have the nerve to want to? Can the livestock guardian still have the bone and steadiness to stay out all night in winter and make decisions without you?

A good judge isn't picking the prettiest dog. They're trying to hold the line against drift. When it works, a show is conservation. The ribbon says: this is still a good, sound, typical example of this breed. Breeders should look here.

And the people who stay in it for decades — the ones who really love a breed — live like archivists. They know every dog in a five-generation pedigree by temperament, not just titles. They know which bitch throws good feet and which dog throws soft ears. They will keep a puppy that will never win because it has the old type they are trying to get back. They will sell the flashy winner as a pet because they know his temperament isn't right.

Love for the breed looks like patience. It looks like saying no.

When winning becomes the breed:
The problem starts when the show stops evaluating the breed and becomes its own separate breed.
Every breed has a written standard. But there is also an unwritten, fashion-driven standard that lives in the winning photos. Sometimes they are the same. Often, after a few years of the same dogs winning, they aren't.
A little more angulation gets rewarded, so the next year dogs have more. A little flatter face wins, so the next year faces get flatter. A coat that was supposed to be practical becomes enormous because enormous catches a judge's eye from 40 feet away.
Nobody votes to do this. It just happens when winning becomes more important than remembering.

You can spot a kennel that breeds for winning. The dogs are remarkably consistent, and remarkably extreme. They win a lot at 2 and disappear at 5. They are handled by professionals, owned by someone you rarely see, and their names are full of championships but you never meet their mothers.

You can spot a kennel that breeds for the breed. There are old dogs lying around. There are mismatched dogs. The breeder will talk you out of buying one. They will ask you more questions than you ask them. They will show you health tests without you asking, and tell you about the puppy they lost last year that had epilepsy, and why they spayed that otherwise gorgeous bitch because of it.

One is producing winners. The other is producing a breed.
How to tell which one you're looking at

If you're new to dogs and trying to find a good breeder, don't start with the ribbons.
Start with these questions:

1. What does your oldest dog in the house look like and act like? Breed love keeps old dogs around. Winning for its own sake often doesn't.
2. What are you trying to fix in your next litter? A real preservation breeder always has an answer. A trophy breeder will tell you everything is perfect.
3. What do your dogs do when they're not showing? Can they hike, swim, herd, track, do obedience, be a therapy dog, live with kids? Versatility is the best proof of soundness.
4. What happens if I can't keep the dog? The preservation breeder says the dog comes back to me, at any age, for any reason, no questions. That's love of breed as policy.

We need both, but we have to be honest about which is leading.
Dog shows, at their best, are where people who love a breed get together and argue, face to face, about what good looks like. That argument matters. Without it, every breed drifts into whatever sells puppies on the internet.

But a ribbon is not proof of love. It's proof that on one day, one judge thought one dog fit one interpretation of a written standard better than the others in the ring. That's all it is.

The best breeders I know still go to shows. They still want to win — badly. They get shaky hands in Best of Breed just like everyone else. But if you asked them, quietly after the show when the van is packed and the dogs are snoring, what would hurt more: never winning another ribbon again, or never having another dog of this breed in their house?

They don't even hesitate.

we are preparing for our next planned litter between Ryder and Skye.
Ryder's personal page can be found here
https://www.echoview.ca/ryder
and Skye's personal page can be found here.
https://www.echoview.ca/skye

CHIC number are in place and all puppies will be LUA with hopefully several homozgyous LUA's.
Both have beautiful temperaments and we will have some outstanding pet and show prospects available.

We will consider another 2 maybe 3 applications for this litter which can be found at this link.
https://www.echoview.ca/puppy-buyer-info-application

Any questions do not hesitate to reach out to us.

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