Anf I'm in Canada. Up here, we don't often use the SOP. You see, we see it as sort of a rulebook for a game: Showing. I know it's taken very seriously down in the States, but not up here. We know that the quality of esthetics is more relative to how the birds are raised, rather than how they conform to a picture in a book. We generally have an idea of what a breed should look like, and prefer to put focus on utility and vitality, rather than a pathetic amount of shallow esthetics. The Americans laugh at us because we don't use the SOP. We laugh at them because their birds are inbred and lack utility. (Not meant to insult anyone)