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Well said.
I think there is a difference between getting in a yard accident and walking away from a whooping ... and just avoiding a problem when it isn't necessary.
I too prefer dogs that know when to go and know when to relax and be cool. Case in point: Silverback and Dirty Hammer are lying on my couch as I type this, watching the pups Amazon and Beowulf play all over the place :mrgreen:
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BlockBuster, I have had this happen to me a couple times when I use to use bullsnaps, and it never ended good. Yard accidents suck because you never really know what happened. I had a 9 month old pup that got hit by a grown male, and when I got home they were rockin' & rollin'. After I got them apart the pup wanted nothing to do with that grown male, but during the accident he was giving him the business. I just held on to him until he was old enough to check, and I ended up with the same results.
I also had a grown bitch get loose by pulling her angle iron out of the ground when it became soggy. I use to weld my chains to 2' foot long sticks of angle iron, but realized then it wasn't long enough. When I came home I found her in the dog house with a 6 month old puppy. They were both jacked up real bad, and the chains were tangled so tight that they looked like one dog with two heads. I got them loose and the grown bitch was trying to get ahold of every other dog on the yard, and the puppy didn't want to do shit. I took the grown bitch right to the barn and learned for the second time that she wasn't a finisher, but she wasn't a cur neither. I let the puppy grow up and just hoped for the best, but he turned out to be a cur. He never acted the same after that attack. He was a very hot and active little pup until the bitch got ahold of him, and after that he was a little shy and cautious around other dogs. I think he remembered that beating well. It was my own damn fault for having my animals on those snaps. I gave the bitch away to some gentlemen who were happy with her, I had no desire to breed her after that, nor did I plan on showing her.
That is the textbook definition of being RUINED.
That is Lou Johnston of GOOFY fame on my right, and Ernie "Joe Viking" Rodin on my left. Ernie owned the GR CH HUMPHREY dog before selling him to Cesar Bon in Mexico where he finished the campaign trail. Ernie had a bunch of great dogs over the years and was a real friend. He was very close to Larry McCaw clear back when Patrick was scooping Larry's yard and living out there. Both of them died within a couple of years of this photo. This was taken at the Spring 1992 show, 20 years ago. CH MERLE won his 3rd that night, CH JULIUS lost deeply game in 1:46, and CH REGGIE won her second that morning of the photo. Oh to be a kid again!Quote:
Originally Posted by CA Jack
In the end you gotta make that final judgement call..so long as u true to your standards it will only matter to you..no one else's opinion matters!!
stop spoiling em and they wont run to the door lmaoooooo j/k which male was it?