The allure of breeding...

[WastelandExotics]

For me, when I get into breeding, it would be for the best quality, representative of the morphs.

But the "best quality, representative of the morph" is extremely subjective and varies from person to person as again, there is no standard and thank whatever it is that's out there that there isn't one. It seems that BP morphs and their representations are a little more artistic/visual preference than strictly adhering to a standard, which is exactly how it should be. This is something that keeps getting brought up in the hobby every so often and 99.99% of people in the hobby aren't interested in the idea of creating a standard.

To the person above who mentions GSD, there are more varieties than the “classic” look, black and white. That classic look has a wide variety of actual colors/shades and whether there is an actual saddle, etc. plus there are more colors than just the Black and Tan in what you consider the “classic” look. (I have a black GSD and her littermates included sables and dark agoutis without the classic saddles.)

I was being as simplistic as possible and was giving an extremely basic example to illustrate a point tbh. It's sort of a moot point when you consider the amount of slight variations in Shepherd's (or any dog breed for that matter) coloring/markings vs. the metric ton of variation in BPs.