Dan and I take so many things into consideration before breeding our BABIES ( we even call our grown ones our BABIES ) like SOME other breeders do. Most importantly their health, Pedigree, temperament, personality, disposition, markings, then size and yes as long as these other qualities are there we try and get them as small as we can. I have unintentionally hurt peoples feelings by spending time with their male in the hope of using it for stud ( before we got all of our own males ) and found a conflict, maybe the temper was a little more than we were looking for or the markings in my mind would not produce what we want in the off spring.I have been doing this for 45 years and I don't apologize for wanting everything as close to perfect as possible. There is no such thing as the perfect dog but by gorge we try and get as close to it as we can, and we have never had any complaints and we have return customers come back and want another one some of the same breed and some of another breed. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to raise dogs and I LOVE IT. I worked 911 and EMS for many, many years and when someone showed an interest in becoming a paramedic and ask me how I liked it this was my response If you are doing it from the Heart then you will go a long way BUT If you are doing it from the hip ( pocket-book ) don't bother and waste your time. I feel the same way about Breeding Dogs. Thank you for taking the time to read our pages and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us Thanks Beth at (864)-441-3500