Those are some excellent articles, thanks for posting them! The Brackett GSD one is a classic.

And I am glad to see TFX back, that was a very well written article about Bloodhounds that can apply to any breed of working dog these days.

Look what has happened to the working Border collie since the AKC added the breed to their show registry. Donald McCaig’s book “The Dog Wars” is a good read about how the working Border collie folks fought the AKC. Breeding for "pretty dogs" will ruin a working dog in a short time...

I used to have an interesting link to a museum web site in the UK that showed photos of taxidermy mounted dogs from 100 years ago and most of the breeds looked very different than they do today. Unfortunately that site is gone now.

I would also highly recommend reading the old classic by Dr. Leon Whitney “How to Breed Dogs” which was first written in the 1930s but has much information that is useful today. He writes on inbreeding and linebreeding and if I remember right, he also wrote about some of the famous working Bloodhounds of the time. This book is not expensive and is pretty easy to find, try Amazon for a used copy.

Big thanks to Jack and to TFX for writing that article. Although it is on Bloodhounds, it applies to all dogs and has some great info in it. And old Dr. Leon Whitney had so much knowledge and wrote some excellent books.

Another useful book on dog breeding is Mary Williams’ book “Reaching for the Stars” formerly titled “Advanced Labrador Breeding”, which sadly has gone from being a $15 book to being out of print and costing about $100 these days. Still it is worth reading, maybe it can be requested on Inter Library Loan for those who want to read it and not spend such a high price.

Good reads for sure!