Quote Originally Posted by swampdawg View Post
Evetyone has there opinion on what they like in a dog I guess but I would rather get a pup from a proven breeding (male to female) instead of getting a pup from a person solely because his name wil be on the papers.Put hundreds of pups out there and your bound to have some make it.
I get what you mean, but it's not as simple as that.

Like great fighters, many great breeders got soft once they made it to the top and stopped doing the things that made them great in the first place. But what made these men great in their heyday was great foundational stock, a great eye and great standards, and a great pool of dogs to tap into.

Your ramble of "having some make it" out of a hodgepodge of shit is just that, a ramble. This kind of guessing game is not going to cause anyone to have an enormous positive impact on the breed ... you're talking about what 99.99% of the retards on PedsOnline are doing, but NONE of them has made any kind of an "impact" whatsoever, anywhere.

The people who had the biggest impact on the history of our breed had ALOT of dogs make it ... not "some" ... to where entire yards, bloodlines, and new histories were created. The breeders we're taking about here didn't get that way by being dumbasses peddling shit they knew nothing about. They got that way by breeding LOTS of damned good dogs. Their percentages might not have been the absolute best, and maybe some faded over time, but at their best MANY of the dogs these breeders produced damned sure were the best to be had in the history of the sport. That is how the "impact" was created ... and lasted

Jack