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Date Posted: 18:13:54 11/19/09 Thu
Author: Dan G.
Subject: Re: for the record
In reply to: Lee 's message, "for the record" on 17:55:52 11/19/09 Thu

If there is that much variation in the pot, why the hell you wanna keep adding ingredients in it? Refine what you have first before you go out looking for more crap to throw into the mix. Otherwise you're just breeding mutts. And unless you have some very big money on the line, breeding mutts will get you nothing than more shelter dogs. Or if you're part of a group of like minded individuals with one goal in mind (eg. sled dogs or greyhounds) and there is cash on the line.

"Still...the consistency of working traits in a given LINE of dogs is FAR MORE IMPORTANT to a working dog enthusist such as myself than is a "breed."

The point is that breeding crosses will not give you consistency. It might give you a good dog here and there, but it won't give you consistency until you breed back heavily into the "breed" that is already highly variable (as you claimed). And then you're back to the problem of proving it's worth. And unfortunately, protection dogs are the most hacked up working dogs of all working dogs because proving them is highly variable and the need for them is not there. Eg. How do you prove your dogs? You don't believe in the merits of the sports, so what have you? Your opinion. I don't care if you're the pope, that's not gonna cut it when there is no money on the line for their performance.

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