Originally Posted by pig mad
Somewhere in here I have a pretty deep post about "crossing" and (really) just the whole idea of blanket statements about "what works" in general.
I am in the process of moving right now, so I don't have a lot of time to post for the moment, but in general when you think about breeding dogs you need to think about individuals used as well as "general" truths. For example, Redboy/Jocko is a time-proven cross ... and yet I have seen some awfully suckass individual RBJ dogs. Of course, I have seen good ones, but just because a cross may be proven good "in general" doesn't mean that every time 'you' breed RBJ dogs you're going to get good ones.
And the same is true in reverse. Just because a few people may not have had succeeded with that cross (using "their" dogs) doesn't mean you won't succeed with the same basic cross using your dogs. For example (and I guess I should have posted this in the Sorrells' thread), but here is the pedigree of Gr Ch Milo, who not only was a badass dog, but who also sired multiple Champions bred to a variety of different bitches. I knew this dog personally, and the man who owned him actually matched against Milo ... who took a hateful beating ... but who turned things around and won (while displaying so much gameness in the process) that the old man bought him on the spot ... and then produced multiple winners with the dog ... who is essentially a watered-down Jeep/Sorrells' cross.
He wound up being THE top stud dog for the old man who had him ... so the moral to this is 1) different individuals within the same basic cross produce different results, which means 2) "other people's" efforts have ZERO bearing on how your efforts may turn out (and that works either way, good or bad).
So you will never know until you try ...
Jack
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