Ch Emmitt Rom where does he rank among the all time greats ?

[Officially Retired]

I honestly never liked the Emmitt dog.

I lived right down the road from the guy who owned him, was given an opportunity to breed to him for free, but never did. Why? Because none of the dogs off Emmitt ever got passed mine in schooling sessions, that's why. Those dogs got out-smarted and beaten to the punch every time, except when Bandana spotted one bitch 5 lb and was on a down dog and in her kidneys in :05. Now I have to admit that bitch bit hard, and Bandana was bleeding bad, but damn, that Emmitt bitch couldn't take a forward step to a 5-lb smaller Coca Cola bitch ... and if they would have been the same size it would have been animal cruelty .. so thanks, but no thanks, to that blood.

The same guy owned Gr Ch Sparky, at the same time, and I did breed to the Sparky dog, as I really heard a lot of good things about his gameness. I only got one pup and that was out of Screamer, and the bitch (Pantera) grew up to be an awesome specimen of a dog.

As far as Jethro being off of Emmitt, no way. Sure they were both black dogs, but if anyone has eyes to see they both had completely different builds. Emmitt was a stocky dog with short legs and threw all kinds of dogs, appearance-wise (brown, red, black, etc.) By contrast, Sparky was pure black dominant and prepotent as hell in throwing "himself" ... and you could just see Sparky in 99% of his pups. Even the one bitch I got out of Sparky and my Screamer was a spittin' image of Sparky and looked nothing like Screamer. And you can see that in Jethro too.

Jack

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I honestly never liked the Emmitt dog.

I lived right down the road from the guy who owned him, was given an opportunity to breed to him for free, but never did. Why? Because none of the dogs off Emmitt ever got passed mine in schooling sessions, that's why. Those dogs got out-smarted and beaten to the punch every time, except when Bandana spotted one bitch 5 lb and was on a down dog and in her kidneys in :05. Now I have to admit that bitch bit hard, and Bandana was bleeding bad, but damn, that Emmitt bitch couldn't take a forward step to a 5-lb smaller Coca Cola bitch ... and if they would have been the same size it would have been animal cruelty .. so thanks, but no thanks, to that blood.

The same guy owned Gr Ch Sparky, at the same time, and I did breed to the Sparky dog, as I really heard a lot of good things about his gameness. I only got one pup and that was out of Screamer, and the bitch (Pantera) grew up to be an awesome specimen of a dog.

As far as Jethro being off of Emmitt, no way. Sure they were both black dogs, but if anyone has eyes to see they both had completely different builds. Emmitt was a stocky dog with short legs and threw all kinds of dogs, appearance-wise (brown, red, black, etc.) By contrast, Sparky was pure black dominant and prepotent as hell in throwing "himself" ... and you could just see Sparky in 99% of his pups. Even the one bitch I got out of Sparky and my Screamer was a spittin' image of Sparky and looked nothing like Screamer. And you can see that in Jethro too.

Jack

WOW! now I have never heard anyone bad mouth Emmitt like that but there is a 1st time for everything ! Now I have heard not enough mouth and the size that can be fixed with the right breeding. Now how was that dog bred up u schooled with that did make the your cut if u don't mind MR Jack?

[Officially Retired]

WOW! now I have never heard anyone bad mouth Emmitt like that but there is a 1st time for everything!

What is with the "wow"?

I was not badmouthing at all bro, I merely stated what I liked and didn't like, based on a year of seeing many of those dogs.

Now I have heard not enough mouth and the size that can be fixed with the right breeding.

You're right. Mouth is easily fixed ... but lack of speed, timing, reflexes, intelligence, and deep gameness are not.

Now how was that dog bred up u schooled with that did make the your cut if u don't mind MR Jack?

Two of them were sisters to Ch Roy Jones Jr. One was picked up to Screamer, the other was picked up to Screamer's daughter (and Duke Nukem's sister) Athena Red. Still another was picked up to Misty Red, who destroyed the nose without getting bit once, and the bitch who was 5-lb bigger than Bandana was an outcross on the bottom (I forget to what). In fact, those boys were trying to match Ch Roy Jones Jr. himself into a Ch son of my Ruby bitch (OTC's Ch Tank), but after those rolls and going 0-4 with me, they never made that match

Screamer produced multiple winners for me, and so did her daughter ... Misty Red produced Pretty Boy in her only litter (of 3) who won in 2:42 then lost game to a Champion in 1:10 ... while Bandana's son Ch Vengence went on to decimate another highly-regarded Boyles dog (Gamedog Inc.'s Ch Soldier) in :42 ... without getting a single hole in his skin ... and then Vengence went into Openhouse and spotted a son of CML's Little John 2 lb of weight and Vengence stopped that dog in 1:20 (breaking his windpipe and finishing in the kidneys like his mama). So what may be "awesome" to one man, might not make the grade to another man's yard

Now then, I know many of those dogs won titles, and some of them were very good, so I take my hat off for their earned record and nothing can take that away from them. I can only speak for my own experiences and what I saw. The dogs were solid in a lot of respects, but not in the respects I personally like most. To each his own.

Jack

PS: My Sparky daughter was a truly badass bitch