I wish I had logged on earlier to play in the guessing game. LOL. Based on your post you bred the dogs young. That is completely up to the owner. The recipes to success are so varied amongst bloodlines/families/breeders it is impossible to say this happened because you did this or didn't do that. As far as going forward the positive is that you know what you did did not pan out. It would have been much worse to continue to breed and reproduce this particular set of of dogs based on how they were bred vs. how they performed. When performance is the standard it is a lot easier to get back on track when things do not go as planned. You tried something, it did not work as thought, you made adjustments and continued on. That is as good as it gets in just about anything, even the dogs. EWO