PedsOnline was a great concept, and you have to give its originator credit for the idea

When it first came out, it truly was a great advent for our breed and the understanding of it

However, the truth of the matter is, Marco (its originator) had ZERO dog knowledge and offered nothing but a good idea (and a basic platform) in which to store dog data ... and, as such, Marco had to rely on "others" for actual dog knowledge, photographs, history, articles, etc.

Back in the day (~2000), Marco came to me for assistance with his project. When he did, Marco was respectful, and he politely asked to use my articles, my photos of dogs--my own line, those I had taken of Patrick's dogs, as well as those I had taken of Hollingsworth's dogs.

While many other well-known kennels (including some parasitic members of this site) have outright stolen my historical images (direct images, screen-grabbed from my videos, etc.), placing them on their sites, as if "they" took these images ... Marco of PedsOnline never did this. Marco had the class and dignity to directly ask me for my images, for which I thanked him and allowed him to use, no charge.

For this reason, I have nothing bad to say about the man. He had a great idea and he conducted himself with class in achieving it.

That said, Marco never offered any insight or legitimate knowledge of his own to his paying members. He basically collected money, and allowed a "free for all" on his site, subject to the whims of his (non-accomplished) moderators.

The best technical, medical, and other offered expertise on Marco's site has always come from me ... or from people copying and pasting articles they got from me.

As good as Marco's idea was, he has never bred a winner, let alone 2-decades' worth at an 87% win ratio.

The simple fact is, if 1000 dogmen had a critical problem with a dog of theirs, 1000 would contact ME for counsel as to "what to do," while ZERO would contact Marco.

And, now that I have created **this site ** ... as far as "full functionality" of computer databases go (historical records, photos able to be stored, and statistical data harvested) this site here is THE BEST pit bull site that has ever been created or even considered.

When people take their precious time to add photos, add data, etc. to *THIS* site ... it counts for something ... inputting data here provides harvestable, statistical data for ALL ... it ADDS TO HISTORY ... whereas wasting the same time entering dog info onto PedsOnline ... doesn't do a GD thing ... PedsOnline stores NOTHING USEFUL, for anyone.

Therefore, in this day and age, for those dogmen who actually care about this breed, and have the brains to appreciate it, who gives a shit about PedsOnline?

Jack