Message #409928

[coach]

I agree dogs were a tool and had versitility. They were guard dogs, cow dogs, deer dogs and coon dogs. They had to do the work of 10 dogs all wrapped into one. We have screwed most of that up by not preserving some of these old lines. Lots of times people belived they could make the breed better by adding this or that to it and never preserved the lineage. Well now with new technology and DNA we can preserve the better lines of dogs although some need to stop breeding crappy dogs to crappy dogs to make a buck. Use the old breeding of good to good to = better dogs and cull hard has worked for me. Lots of people just don't have the heart to do it.