What is most often forgotten is that people who show animals are participating in a form of art. Many types of animals are shown from all the dog breeds, cats, canaries, budgerigars, rabbits, guinea pigs. You name them and there are shows for them. Each breed has a Standard which is intended to reflect a standard of "Perfection" which the breeder attempts to reach. Unfortunately, all too often, a judge will place his/her own slant on what they don't like in an animal rather than simply judge to the standard and place a dog on their positive qualities and their opinion may differ from yours. Some judges just plain don't know. Part of your learned skills will be to detect the judges who like your dogs and show under them and weed out the judges who don't like your dogs and not show under them.

Your skills as an owner and breeder are to learn the written standard and convert that to a mental picture of perfection, then by careful selection, breed an animal which most closely resembles that standard. The Amstaff is no different. He is intended to be thing of beauty to be admired. If he is not then he is of poor quality or not an Amstaff (See Part 2)