Rolling back to the point on breeding strong line traits back over to a dog with similar weaker traits but strong in other departments.
I have heard this question posed alot.
(I have a long range cold nose dog, but I would like him to be more gritty)
Can I breed a gritty short range dog back to it and correct the problem?
Well........I figure that cross will do one thing.
More than likely lose both traits that you want to combine.
Probably end up with a short to med range dog that has a mediocre nose and will be less gritty than desired even if more than your original non gritty dog.
Seems to me you would be countering and basically speaking ...neutralizing ....your desired traits against each other.
Why dont you breed a long range, cold nosed, non gritty back to another long ranged, cold nosed, semi gritty or more if available. This way you double your long range, cold nose genes and add onto the grit ...gradually over several crosses.
The end result hopefully speaking will be long range, cold nosed and grittier than your previous cross? Isn't that the goal to begin with?
Make sense to anyone or do I have my armadillo hat on again? Lol
