If I could start over, I would simply have taken better care of the great dogs I did have.
I would have fed them raw from the start, I would have bred to Hammer more, and I would not have been so quick to sell a good one.
I would never have bred to the Wac dogs at all, but I would have kept one or two of the Mayday dogs.
I also never would have sold Coca Cola and would have kept a male and female out of her and Charlie.
There simply is no other line of dogs that I like better than mine, or that wins in any higher percentage than mine.
What I might have done, however, is more Eli-type crosses, as well as added more pure Carver/Boomer-type dogs, and perhaps experimented that way more (just to look for a blockbuster).
But when it comes to consistent, dependable, smart, tough, scrappy, well-tempered dogs that do whatever they have to do, to win, I had that down pretty well and wouldn't change a thing ... except my own competence and judgment in what I did with some of them.
Jack