Quote Originally Posted by FrostyPaws View Post
I'd skip breeding to a cold anything when you can just easily find a dog that's not cold that's producing the quality of dogs you want.
Sometimes it is not "just as easy" to find a dog that's bred how you want that's "not cold."

For example, if Sorrells' Bull were still alive today (who was off of Klaus' Zeke bred to Bolio's sister--which is his own daughter), I would breed to Bull over most of the living "hot/game" males alive today, simply because IMO Klaus's Zeke was such a good dog.

I totally agree that if Sorrells' Bull had a living brother who was a helluva performer, and was demonstrably-game, that I would breed to the proven-game brother over the cold dog ... but if that cold dog is my only option I wouldn't hesitate. IMO, when there is a well-structured, super-bred individual dog ... that is inbred off of a critical animal, which is comprised of what I consider to be a vital gene pool to my line ... I would breed to such a dog in a heartbeat ... and then select those offspring from the resulting litter(s) whose character/genes I felt obtained in the way I wanted them to.

Jack

Edit: With that said, I personally have only bred to one cold dog in my life (Bolo), and I only did that as an experiment.