Quality of breeding stock

[Luke Martin]

Ever wonder why you cannot find a nice Enchi or Pastel (or whatever)? IMO the simple answer is a lot of folks just breed whatever quality of stock together and then sell off the numerous sub par examples.

This may be the only thing I kind of disagree with. Quality animals can produce sub par animals. Line breeding takes time and you're not going to be producing amazing animals all the time only because your breeders are nice looking. Most of the time, the reason you see the sub par quality animals for sale is because the breeder held back the best quality, or it sold before most people even saw the animal. A lot of the stuff you see on the classifieds are the lesser quality animals, because the high quality gets picked up first. Not disagreeing with your premise, just offering a reason for it over blaming most breeders for selling sub par animals based on their breeding stock.