"Fast Lane"?

[Officially Retired]

Once a person has been successful for a certain amount of years, they tend to know what quality dogs are for the most part. Those guys don't have to match every quality dog they have to know it's a quality dog. They've been around quality dogs long enough to know what that looks like when it pops up. The best dog I've ever owned, and one of the best I've ever SEEN, was never matched once.

Yep.

For years (decades, now) I've heard nay-sayers say that because "I" don't match dogs that my dogs "can't be" fast lane ... and for every single one of those years, bar none, I have bred better dogs and produced dogs that BEAT "dog fighters' dogs" time and again, almost 9-1.

I simply know what winning traits are, how to maintain them in a family of dogs, and can see if they're there or not in practice with each individual in each successive generation.
By contrast, most people never stick with anything long enough to get to know it, master it, and so are forever playing "guessing games" with their random and pointless breeding decisions.

The point is that over time, the more you select for one type of animal, the more you'll get that type of animal. Always try to remember that and you'll be fine if you stick with it.

This is absolutely the truth.

And it is especially the truth if you stick with the same family (or winning combo), and select from individuals know to have (and produce) those traits.

Breeding to "a dog" with some traits you like (with a spotty background for them) is a rougher deal ... but breeding to yet another individual with these traits, full of similar dogs in his litter, and in his background, makes getting "the kind of dogs you want" a cinch.

I used to say, "I could produce better dogs from an accidental kennel breeding in my sleep than what MOST people produce traveling, paying stud fees, and mixing bloodlines," ... and, yeah, it was kinda funny to say ... but I wasn't joking.

Jack