Quote Originally Posted by CA Jack View Post
No one makes the decisions I would. They may breed Poncho dogs (or Silverback dogs) but their decisions are their own.
I have gotten a few PMs on this, so allow me to clarify:

In maintaining a bloodline, SELECTION is everything. There really aren't many people in the game (running any bloodline) that have actually kept a family alive, pure, and competitive, for 23 years running the same family. Not many at all.

Most people start "mixing other blood" into what they have, and very quickly have a mutt farm on their yard to where you can't even call what they're feeding "a family" anymore ... so most of the people who have my dogs are creating this kind of scenario. They're breeding all kinds of other stuff into what they have, so I don't really consider the pups they're producing to be "my blood" at all. I wish them success, but I don't call what they're producing "my blood."

Of the people who do try to keep their own family going, and who are breeding my stuff pure, I have no way of knowing which dogs of theirs can do what. I don't know if the two dogs they bred together are the two dogs I would have bred together. Maybe they made a decision that will produce better dogs than my decision would have produced. Maybe they made a decision that would produce worse dogs than I would have produced. No way for me to know. Maybe they're not factoring-in doubling-up on the right dogs in back of the dogs they're feeding, because oftentimes breeding dogs involved more than just "the two dogs" you're breeding ... it involves aliging the best dogs behind them, in the pedigree, to keep the highest percentage ancestors strong for DEPTH of quality

And most people don't even know what I mean by that last sentence ...

Ultimately, breeding a family selectively involves the personal tastes, and depth of ancestral knowledge, of the breeder making the selections ... and it involves continuously steering the dogs towards the breeder's ideal ... and two men will almost invariably differ as to what their "ideal dog" is in their eyes ... so they will be making different breeding selections in their choices.

The good news is, my dogs are almost invariably game, tough mofos ... I have laid that foundation as well, and as consistently, in my line as anyone in the history of dogs ever has ... so that is what most people are going to get when they breed them: game, tough mofos that will go the route.

However, when trying to refine that, and get the very best athletes from it, style-wise, and ability-wise ... I have no way to know which people have "the best" of what I have ... and whether they're breeding to keep the head style, intelligence, and speed I have ingrained into most ... or if they are trying to keep Silverback's finish in there ... I just have no way to know as I have not personally seen the performance of what they're feeding ... but I do wish everyone who has them all the success in the world.

Hope this makes sense,

Jack