On Breeding Better Dogs

I want to say...sometimes when I post late in the evening I type out of both ends of my body.

Know what I mean...?

I talk from my head and a$$ at the same time...lol

I may not think things thru as clearly as I should

I don't dislike pure breeds or line breeding or inbreeding and these are useful tools.

I plan to employ these tools on my program.

But I think when one gets too fixated on this they run into depression eventually. If they are not open to crossing vigor back in then their tunnel visioned kennel (or even breed) blindness is nothing but a detriment to the working ability of the dogs they started with.

It may or may not even happen in their lifetime, depends on how much breeding a person does.

But it will catch up with someone down the line if they are still breeding dogs in this persons vision but solely on traits of working animals and are open minded enough to consider these things.

The problem with purity is alot of time folks consider the visual uniformity as purity in the long run and the actual performance is bit a trial or show pony quick sort of thing.

Breeds like the dogo, ab, lots of curs have huge variety pheno and geno typically. They are not refined and never reached that point. From inception...

I say this is kinda a good thing and leaves alot of avenues for a breeder to refine for their own vision from there.

Once a breed reaches cookie cutter status it is in decline as far as I'm concerned.

...some may not see it that way and that's cool.

The mal had a splash of pit added to the GS. And those dogs now bear the GS at everything in the work.
The greyhounds went they much the same vigor outcross and do from time to time from what I have read.
The pit had a splash of ebt added at one point that increased a bit of vigor. The bulldog had a splash of terrier added that did the same in the old days.
To me the dogo is basically the new and improved Dane which is a high component of the dogo. But had to be invigorated by extensive outs.

In that sense what texas hogdogs just posted is where I come from.

Take the patter dale. It's a bit of a composite as well... But surpasses all the previous pure bred ground dogs at this point in time. Because a type became more important in a working breed or breeds then performance