Agreed.

Taking the pedigrees on face value and then thinking they are different than advertised can easily sway the opinion.


I had dogs bred down out of Patrick's Kasai. He stamped his puppies to the point the female could contribute color, but that was about it. They looked like him, acted like him, developed like him and the most tell-tale sign was they barked like him (early and often). Nearly identical.

There is a prominent dog man in the south that bred to him several times and never got puppies. He never missed otherwise. We often joked about it but there was never a way to say it was a fact one way or the other.

I visited his yard some two years later and as we walked toward the dogs I did not need a lie detector test, a blood test or a DNA swab. It was no doubt he had puppies on those breedings. His dogs were shaped like mine, carried on like mine and that tell-tale sign was they barked just like mine.

I believe this happens on every level.

So I agree with the above post, taking peds at face value or not can swing a vote one way or another.

EWO