Quote Originally Posted by wrknapbt
As some of you may or maynot know I do a dog sport called Schutzhund. One of the things that gets judged hard in this sport is the grip of the dog.
The judges are looking for deep, full, hard grips. When looking for a working puppy to do the sport with we tend to select the pup with this deep full hard grip that has it naturally as there are too many other things to work on in this sport such as the dreaded tracking and the obediance phase.
Yep.

I have owned and raised more puppies than 999,999 out of every million people ... and I've raised/trained/worked them all pretty much the same ... and yet there is a WIDE VARIETY of abilities that have resulted out of the many breedings/pups I have created ... while my effort as a breeder had been to streamline everything and get "more of the same" genetically out of my gene pool.

That said, regarding extreme abilities, I would say that out of all those dogs I have bred and raised over the years, only 2 other dogs have been able to close the deal like Silverback. The truth is, I could "train" every pup I breed to my heart's content, but unless they have it genetically I am not going to get that finishing trait. This kind of selection is the entire cornerstone of breeding success, and a total lack thereof in the "proper selection" department is the sum and substance responsible for every failed breeding program ...

Not to mention the truth in the age-old adage: "The biggest mistake in conditioning is conditioning the wrong dog ..."

Jack

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