Quote Originally Posted by EWO View Post
Agree with this. I think the dogs change when different people breed them. Same family, but it only takes one, maybe two breedings and the resulting dogs con be completely different. Any number of things can be factored in or left out to start the change. A guy could pass up the best performer and producer if the dog gets to 50lbs and he only likes smaller dogs. Silly. But that is all it takes to make changes. EWO
Yes and no.

Yes, things absolutely change when a new owner starts selecting for his own individual preferences (competent or incompetent) within a line ...

But no, if they still go back to RBJ (or Jeep, or whatever), they're still RBJ (Jeep, etc.) dogs.

Jack

PS: That is also the SIGN of competence is when a breeder is focusing on NEW DOGS within the line. For example, if I still am trying to sell my dogs as "Bolio dogs" then I am an imbecile who apparently hasn't been able to breed MY OWN good dogs within the strain ... I am still looking back over my shoulder 40 years ago for a dead dog in order to have something good to say about what I have now. By contrast, even if my dogs have Bolio "in them" ... I should be able to point to dogs NOW, on my yard TODAY, that are defining themselves and worth talking about (e.g., Silverback dogs or some live, or only recently-dead, dog that I am focusing on NOW). So to me, when someone can only say my dogs are "Jeep dog" (rather than, say, SlimShady dogs--dogs that are good now), I automatically know that I am looking at a guy who's not feeding/breeding anything worth talking about on his own yard.