My thoughts about the breed and breeding..
.. Ajatuksiani rodusta ja kasvattamisesta

• "Kasvattajahaastattelu" 
• Some important cresteds on my breeding

When I choose male or bitch for my breeding, it isn't necessarily is big winner or "show wreck" with heaps of titles. When I use something for my breeding, it is part of my "vision" of ideal crested and I've never thought to make "overnight success" in breeding. I don't care what others say about the ones I choose for breeding, I will go on how I feel and hopefully within few years more I can have "my type" under Stormblåstens prefix. We will see if my vision become "flesh" ;)

Also what is important in my breeding is overall structure. As I feel that out of things we can see, structure is number one. Health and temperament are also important to me. But as much as we would like to breed only ideal sized cresteds, with perfect health, teeths, ears, tail etc. It's like my friend once said "welcome to the real word" and it is not easy to combine all the favorable qualities in one. 

And as we all know, there is hereditary health issues in this breed as in every other breed. When i started breeding, I most likely would have been more strict about some issues, but when one breeds for several years, keep in touch with other breeders, share opinions, health test and search information and still some issues pop up.. That what makes one's eyes open and gives you more realistic idea about the breeding. One doesn't really learn anything from the "desk box breeding" (No matter how pretty pedigrees you draw on the paper and how healthy and pretty the pedigree looks..) I have decided which issues i consider to be not suitable for breeding and with which faults and issues I can live with. You really can not find lines which are 100% free for 5 generations from all the undesirable traits (i.e.. health, temperament, size, dentition, overall looks..) So therefore each breeder chooses what they can live with, and which they can't. If you want to know more about the subject, I'm more than happy to discuss about it