Before I got Frosty, I wasn't very successful at it as I just didn't understand what it really took to breed any type of successful dogs. I don't take it as being mean. The facts are the facts. Nothing outstanding ever came from any breeding I did before him. I had some decent dogs here and there, but that was it. I didn't have the aptitude at that time, or really the willingness, to understand what it took. I just wanted to show dogs more than anything else so that's really what I was interested in. I wasn't interested in attempting to maintain any lineage of dogs as I simply didn't care about that.

There were a couple of things that ended up changing my mind on things. The few dogs I had bred, while they weren't anything outstanding, were better than a lot of other dogs I'd gotten elsewhere. So, I knew I had the ability to possibly change my own course. So, I started talking more to people who had/were/are successfully breeding their dogs, and I picked things up from each individual. When I got Frosty, no one knew how good of a producer he would be. He'd been bred two or three times before I got him, and there wasn't really anything special about him at that point. When I finally settled down enough in my own mind to breed Frosty, I discovered a dog that produced exactly what I wanted a lot more times than not. I'd been around dogs like that such as the Little John dog of Soggy Bottom and a few other dogs. But that was something I'd never had before, but by then, I'd gotten far enough along in my own thoughts and exchanging ideas or picking the brains of others that were successful at breeding dogs that I had my feet on the right path. And since that time, I've never looked back.

Dogs such as Frosty, Little John, Deacon, whatever dog a person wants to use as an example, helps us realize what can really be accomplished with the right dogs, but those dogs can only help us if we're at that stage to accept what it is we're seeing and not just piss it all away. When I saw what Frosty produced for me as opposed to other studs and what they were producing, I knew right then that, for me, there wasn't another stud to use. There was absolutely no reason for me to leave my yard, ever again, if I did everything right. That was about 10 years ago, and the dogs from Frosty and his offspring still rule this yard with an iron fist. Which I'm proud to say