What are characteristics of a good, quality puppy

When it comes to deciding as a breeder if your puppies you just produced are good, quality puppies verses pet home puppies might be hard to decide. You will find breeders that are just in it for the money and just sell all their puppies for a certain price no matter what issues they might have or can produce. Then you have breeders who will choose what puppy is pet home only and what puppy can be sold with breeding rights and what puppy is show quality. You have to want to better the breed and you have to make the decision on what will do that.

You can go onto ABKC and UKC website to find all the good characteristics for a show, breeding quality dog. They break down the confirmation standards. For example: what their head, their neck, their body, etc. should look like. You want your bully’s head to be large, heavy, and blocky. You want their muzzle to be short to medium in length. The bully’s jaw should be well defined and not droopy.

When we determine if a puppy is pet home material it is due to having several flaws or a health condition that shouldn’t be bred. We also give customers the option to buy a puppy at a pet home price due to availability. For instance we have a litter of ten American Bully puppies. eight of the puppies meet breed standards and two do not. We will then pet home two of the ten puppies at a lesser price than those that will buy the other eight puppies.

American Bully standard

Common American Bully flaws

1. High Rear
2. Feet toeing inward or outward (East-West feet)
3. Muzzle is to long or snipey
4. Sway Back
5. Bowed front legs
6. Splayed feet or flat feet
7. Long toes
8. Long back
9. Cow Hocks
10. Kinked tail

What are some reasons to not show your dog?

There is a long list of show quality faults that you can find on the ABKC and UKC websites, but to name a few of the disqualifications are:

1. Severely overshot
2. Kinked tail
3. Twisted tail
4. Knotted tail
5. Fused tail
6. Overly short tail
7. Long coat

For more information on the breed standards you can check out ABKC standards here

You can also checkout breed standards at UKC standards