@ sadhbhsdad do me a favour and next time the "show ring idiots" make negative comments on your ddb, speak out exactly what you have in mind! i cannot understand how people can breed a certain breed and don't care about historical pictures and things like that. maybe if people like you start reacting, even the show ring one day can be changed again. also i have my doubts about it. i guess it is more wishful thinking. maybe there should be another organization beside FCI which judges the breed based on a more functional phenotype. here you can see a dog from show ring a bit more than 100 years ago and it was considered as perfect in type. so what would the breeders who made the comments about your dog, say about it *-) i guess they would say it is a very poor example of the breed etc. they are idiots!