Well I will start by saying I truely believe in linebreeding, with that being said I added Vise-Grip and Bolio blood to my Hooten's Pistol (Nigerino/Chinaman) dogs because they have a lot of bad traits and are very one dimensional in their pure form.

When I say bad traits, they do things like dig you swimming pools and ponds, chew up their feed bowls and water buckets, fight their chains and kennels, and I have seen where they will bark at leaves on the tree all day.

Most of my dogs like to work up front or at the back, they have no idea of what a good defense is and could careless for one. By adding the Vise-Grip and Bolio blood I was able to get them to start at the top and stay out of the way of falling objects when they are working.

My thing is if it ain't broke why waste time re-inventing the wheel. Your dogs should have one main ingredient, that's gameness. If you have that the next step is find a line that is similar bred to yours and add any traits yours lack. If you can't find it in a similar line then look to an out cross. But once you correct the deficiancy you should be line or inbreeding to lock in those traits.

Now if your dogs lack the main ingredient, then you might want to re-evaluate what your feeding. Meaning if my Pistol dogs lack heart I wouldn't look for Bolio or Vise-Grip dogs to add it, I just get rid of the Pistol dogs and work with the Vise-Grip and Bolio dogs.