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This teeny-tiny survey is for our forum members. It is open
to ALL Canine Breeds.

Choose one, by number.

1.  Form over Function

2.  Function over Form

Answer _______.

#2 please, otherwise all dogs would end up like english bulldogs.
Fry

#2, Function. 

Function will shape the parts of the form that are integral to the function. Anything that's unrelated to function will fall into place on its own.

Form + Function, both complement each other, formula works only with both of them present.in equal magnitude

Would pick function over form.

NEITHER 'over the other'.   As Ibrahim said  (and Sitasmom said on another
thread)  we should always be working towards breeding BOTH function and
form, to be the best they can be.

Surely it is the insistence that one is more important than the other - either
way - which causes most of the arguments ?

Also Ibrahim was right the other day when he posted somewhere about we
could all end up with mediocre mongrels if we did not pay attention to both
sets of requirements.  I'm not particularly saying the Victorian obsession with
creating "Breeds" was the best thing since sliced bread ... but given that there
was that trend, given that it was partly responsible for Von Stephanitz having the
'vision' that he did, given that we ended up with the founding of a distinct breed
in the German Shepherd - which we mostly on here prefer to all others, both for
its qualities and its looks - why do some want to let that slip away by preferring
one quality over the other ?  There is also the practical consideration - without a
recognised, registered 'breed' and its record-keeping and awards etc,  we would
have little or no information about ancestry to refer back to; sooner or later people
who hold whole bloodlines in their heads die;  and we would end up in a right pickle
of blind guesswork whenever we wanted to re-create through breeding the features
we cherished - even where those are totally 'functional' requirements.  Or perhaps
even more so when looking at function, rather than form, as  describing the various
drives seems more nebulous, going by discussions here, where some individuals
seem to think they are always right in their own interpretation.  There is only a limited
amount you can do in breeding to a type, when you have no proper pedigrees except
what you know of your own dogs, or those near you - even in these days of the 'Net.

neither, needs both
 

How can there be form without function?

What a stupid question.

Depends what the purpose of the dog is. Breeders that breed for form will believe that if a dog is structurally correct, the ability to function will be present.  Those that breed for function, obviously will say that a dog that is bred for function will believe they have correct form.

 In the opinion of each individual, they are both correct.