Quote Originally Posted by ASAP View Post
How many have tried this with success?
No, I never have but was curious about a couple things. If you are doing this you must have a really special individual worth building off of. If so, do you have access to one of its liter mates that is also of very high quality to bred the dog to? Or do you have access to either the sire or dam of the dog you wish to build the line off of or a close relative. If its scatter bred or a cross, some inbreeding would probably be in order to solidify certain traits and tighten up the gene pool. Maybe based on the phenotype of the dog you can figure out what side of the pedigree he is pulling from and breed in that direction?

If the dog you are building on is a cross of 2 pure families then hybrid vigor comes into play possibly which means it will probably nor reproduce him/herself. Lines created by a cross of 2 pure lines like Redboy/Jocko or Redboy/Jocko/Jeep so to just keep the right blend going and it seems to work for future generations. lines created off a scatterbred dogs like the Alligator/Rufus (Hammonds line) were pretty heavily inbred initially either back to one side of the family or brother to sister to solidify the gene pool.

Is this hypothetical or are you trying to do it???? Very curious