Message #258209

[waylon-N.E. OK]

 " I believe it is impossible to breed a dog that is great at all disciplines "

 " I would think it impossible to breed a top-notch all around dog that excels at any given task. "

Well Sir's I respectfully disagree 100%, The men who trusted on the early BMC ( or Catahoulas for that fact ) demanded much to help them survive rough unsettled country and wouldn't/couldn't keep one string of cow dogs, one set of guard dogs, one set of tree dogs, one set of hog dogs ect. They kept very few dogs and those few were required to excel at many given task, perhaps we have lost sight of that and have bred the dogs down instead of up? In fact I'm sure of that. Perhaps I live in a fairy tale world where I expect my FEW dogs to perform above average at any given task I set before them, but I have seen that type of dog it came in a yellow package and made me a believer. I sound puffed up I'm sure and I might be, but once you have seen the bar set high it's hard for me to settle for a " Me to " dog. But my friends all say I'm to picky and expect to much from my dogs to so maybe your right, I'm trying to produce " Old Yeller " here on the double hub cap ranch and won't settle for less than that, when I reach that point in my own dogs and some day I will, I plan to reset the bar higher and carry on from there, if not I should not be breeding dog IMO.

God Bless, Waylon