Wolves are the same. Coyotes are the same. Dogs would be the same if it were not for the fact dogs are bred by people and those dogs use nature as a guide. Dibo, Poncho, Bolio, Bullet are all 'related' in the sense they are all pit bulldogs and at some point the pedigrees/ancestry would inevitably cross paths. The reason there is more uniformity in the Wolf population is there is no man to pick and choose what traits to breed for, or heck, some even choose by color.

Same reason Waccamaw RBJ dogs can be different from Tant's RBJ dogs. Lots of shared family members but can be different dogs altogether. Same with the Red Boy dogs. They can all be Red Boy dogs but the different breeders breeding for different reasons make different dogs.

With that said, and it is only a personal opinion, with it and $.75 you might be able to buy a soft drink, once a breeder sells a dog it is the first step in that dog no longer being a part of the original breeder's line. The second owner will not make all the same decisions, raise the same way, school the same way, cull the same way and in the end breed the same way. If I buy two Waccamaw dogs and breed them based on what I am looking for then they revert back to being RBJ dogs more so than Waccamaw RBJ dogs. Same with any other line, because in fact, that is how the lines are created. Every line has to start somewhere and if all the 'somewheres' are traced back, eventually they will connect.

Great topic. And even better opening line. I didn't really care about the facts or statistics, or even the opinions, it was a really cool wording. EWO




Quote Originally Posted by CA Jack View Post
Lol, true.

It's kinda fascinating how many dogs share distant relatives ... but then branch off in so many directions.

Butcher Boy, Bolio, and Boomerang have many common ancestors. Tombstone too. Yet they each carry different traits.




I don't know the RB dogs as well, but there's a lot of Colby ties if I remember right ... into Loposay, as you mentioned.