Well said.

I came along with a guy who culled hard. he kept 8-10-12 dogs that were open 24/7/365. To get there a lot of dogs were only a notch off, or needed a little more time, or was a really good dog themselves, but ran into one better. He looks back now and says, "What if?" because he put some dogs down that could have very well changed the game. But we will never know.

The best all around dog I was ever around was well over two before he got the picture. He had litter mates that thought they were grown at 10-11-12 months. Fortunately there was some patience involved. Ch. Charlie 4XW may have very well never been. His 2XW sister either.

The owner of Ch. Caballo picked him up in every roll as soon as he got in the least bit of trouble. Most would think Caballo was not getting schooled. For whatever reason, he learned to get in, destroy and get out before someone stopped his fun. It was said Caballo so smart that if he could count money and drive, he would have went out solo.

A lot say Mountain Man's Bandit quit. I know two older fellows who saw him way back when and they would damn near fist fight over what they both saw. He was bred to get to Two Eyes, who was bred to a TarHeel Matt female and then that to a Patrick dog, down from those same stolen dogs and I ended up with Chloe and Cornbread. Chloe won once and Cornbread is one of the best I have ever seen.

Babbling, but the point is that there is a ton of ways to get to a good dog and there is no monopoly on the path to a good dog. When you get one, you got one, and how you got there really does not matter. How you choose to get there or perpetuate from there is completely up to the person feeding the dogs.

What I think or do does not factor with the guy down the road. And the opposite is true as well.

EWO