Message #478036

[hoghunter71409]

Looks do matter in everything .....to he eye of the beholder.  Looks dont neccessarily mean much as far as performance, unless you are talking about breed standards.  When people shop for things they are looking to buy something they want and they must perceive "value".  Nobody goes to wal-mart and picks the first tomato they see; they look, smell, feel and look some more.  Shopping is about looking for options, they are all tomatos, but we have to take a glance at all of them before we pick what we want. 

Just like a lite of pups, we look, touch, pick them up, they are all pups!  Most people are going to see something they like or dont like and that is what they go off of.  We see this less in other dogs becuase the color range is not so wide.  If they are calling you on the phone, then the only basis for comparisson they have othere than gender is color.  If a solid color dog is not what they are wanting it is within thier buying power to offer less and the seller can accept or not.  This isnt something that just happened recently though.  I bought my first and only catahoula from Sherry Bando about 8 years ago.  When I called and spoke with her on the phone, she said I have one pup left out of her most recent liter.  Right way she offered the pup at a discount becuase she was black and tan with brown eyes.  She explained to me that many of her customers wanted the colored up dogs.  I wanted a catahoula so I paid her for the pup.  I was the beholder and I perceived some value in the B&T pup; others didnt.

Yeah you are right, color does matter to the buyer.  I have 5 plotts right now, three of them are saddleback color and if I were to walk up to a liter of 6 week old pups and they all acted exactly the same, I would take the smallest female saddleback pup.  I know what I like and when it comes to color, I prefer a saddleback.