Quote Originally Posted by No Quarter Kennel View Post
Jack I think this totally contradicts what seems to be your breeding practices and by no means do I assume to know what you believe, but one would think, according to all you have written and posted, that you would get better dogs over time from selective breeding that what you started with.

If this is halfway accurate, then over the course of 100 years of competition and breeding (selectively) then the breed would improve.

Mouth alone is something that has improved. The dogs with the ability to end a fight in one bite are many more now than they use to be. If this is true, and it is, then other abilities have improved as well.

I will respectfully disagree yourself and Sta8541. I believe the top tier of bulldogs today are better than the top tier of times long gone. More importantly, I believe the average bulldog today is in a faster lane than the average dogs of long ago.

JMO - great topic and quality discussion.
Hey No Quarter, I can see why you'd say that, so let me clarify what I mean.

My linebreeding practices aren't making "better dogs today" than what I had yesterday ... what they're doing is creating what I like in a dog to be able to replicate itself reliably and consistently.

All of this work I have done hasn't created "way better dogs" than the best dogs I had, what isolating my gene pool has done is ensure my ability to get that kind of ability, again and again.

Freak ability is something that comes and goes.

There has never been an ace that only produces aces.

There has never been a "consistently ace" bloodline.

There are aces that come out of nowhere (shit) on a RARE occasion ... and there are aces that come out of "general excellence" on a more frequent (but still not every) occasion.

My linebreeding efforts have not created "otherworldy" dogs that are better than yesterday's dogs ... my efforts have simply created reliable and consistent excellence, that will be more dependable than from a hodgepodge of unrelated shit.

Hope this clarifies

Jack