As a new player I brought/adopted a few lower TP dogs, so their is value in them from that aspect :) But I also wanted a high TP pup for a longer-term training project. Appearance is probably the foremost thing I look at, followed by TP, but I wouldn\'t write off a pretty looking dog just because of low TP.

My goal is to breed Pretty dogs with higher TP than their parents. I will not breed unmaxed dogs or stud my males out to bitches who are not maxed, I don't care what the Bitch's TP is as long as she is maxed. The pups i keep though from my breedings must be good looking tough. And i look at the looks of a dog im buying after finding dogs with in the TP range I'm looking for.

The beauty of this site is that there are different aspects of breeding and dog owning for everyone. Some breed for high tp and not beauty, some breed for beauty without regard for tp, and some breed for whatever they're in the mood to breed (I'm in the last group... Haha). I love my high tp monsters, but I love my lower tp dogs as well. In fact, one of my favorite dogs is a 0.00 tp half-invisible husky I got from the pound. While it's true that low tp dogs are harder to trial effectively, and that the goal of the site is to breed good trial dogs, I don't think it should matter what the rest of us think - if you like you low tp dogs, great! Enjoy them! :D