Quote Originally Posted by Pitbull28372
True but this guy has garners blood. The ped is nothing but garners. I was just thinking, Whats the different in buying a pup from him, or TG at 6 weeks old. So really how do you know what you are getting.

Because the guy who created everything behind those dogs always knows how to breed his own dogs better than the guy who just "bought them."

For example, I see people making breedings on dogs they got from me that I would never personally make: e.g., inbreeding on a game bum, rather than breeding to a dog with more ability ... or breeding in the direction of a short-winded, stupid individual (or section) of the family, rather than in the direction of longer-winded, smarter individuals/sections of the family ... etc., etc. In other words, the breeder knows things about what's behind his dogs, that the 'buyer' can't possibly know, and consequently the breeder can make better decisions with his own stock than can a novice.

At the end of the day, everybody "thinks" that the breedings they're doing "are going" to produce high-caliber dogs ... but the fact is very few people are actually able to do this AT ALL, let alone reliably and consistently, and it is rare to the vanishing point to find breeders able to sustain a high-powered program over the years.

Most people "buy from breeders," and within a generation or two, they make foolish breeding choices and breed all of the quality and consistency right out of what they have ... and have to "start over" again ... which is always why no one will pay a beginner anything for their pups, because they haven't proven they can breed consistently high-quality dogs yet.

Jack

PS: My real question to you is this: Why are you adding so many different lines to your yard? If you read the book I sold you, in The Art of Breeding Dogs chapter, you will see that the key to breeding success is sticking with something and forming a linebreeding program around the best individuals ... while the key to failure is trying to "buy everything and mix it up," especially without any real working knowledge of the blood you're using. And even where crosses are concerned, there is a big difference between making a strategic cross, based on known performance reasons, and just randomly and senselessly "interbreeding different strains together" without actually knowing a thing about any of the individuals or bloodline propensities you're working with. My sincerest best advice to you would be to work with what you've got, and linebreed toward what's best in there, or (if nothing works) then start out with something new altogether, but keep it clean and well-bred, as opposed to running a hodgepodge of different lines.


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