...pure bred dogs no matter the breed...
There's that word again...haha. Ben, you do know that although they've been bred true for many years not everything in those dogs ped is yellow.
I brought up the topic for discussion probably several years back already, but when a dog's been knowingly crossed; at what point and how many generations down the road do you get to call them pure bred dogs and feel good about it?
It's my personal opinion, that there really is no such thing as "pure bred" dogs. Makes no difference to me really as I look at a line based on how they perform and aside from being structurally sound, if they look good doing it, well that's just a bonus anyhow. Phenotype is the easiest characteristic to breed for.
Bryant i agree 110% with your post.... i say pretty much the same thing to several people weekly. I get sick and tired of saying it. Lol if a yeller "cur" is cold nosed and will run a hog forever you can bet somewhere back in the day there was some sort of hound bred into it. How many generations of line breeding does it take to make it a cur? Lol most truly good "curs" that i have seen have hound ears and cat footed. Supposedly the bmc was two strains originally mastiff/Ridgeback OR mastiff/greyhound. Some people call Catahoulas curs... look up the composition of those dogs. Basically a cur is a mutt!!!! BLACK YELLOW OR RED. I will get off my soap box and let the flogging commence .
