Dumbest things that you've heard.

[Semmes]

Check that it was 19 yrs ago after thinking back and it was Great Dane pups sold as pets for 300$ a pc out of a litter of 9. The test I gave away beside my two keepers...

Nah I got a job I live off of ...guy

[Semmes]

Heck...frick...it was 21 yrs ago...lol true story

[Scott]

Here we go another breeder with "proven lines" proven to who?

must be proven to a bunch of folks coming with cash in hand...

The good news is... With some of the recent posts...I can add to my list of dumbest things I've ever heard. 

[Scott]

C'mon Scott everyone needs a pet

Well then, they should look you up. With family lines 30  years long, they should make for a fine pet...and free to boot  

[redriverslim]

Here we go another breeder with "proven lines" proven to who?

I think it's obvious at this point that 44Mag is what we would call a "low information" bulldogger.  He probably means well, trying to be the "protector" of new guys from lowly "breeders" like myself.  In 44Mag's world, a bulldog is a dime a dozen and anyone who would pay anything for one is an obvious moron.  In 44Mag's world . . . you get on Craigslist . . . get a free dog . . . it catches awesome every time . . . end of story.  That's how you do it.  Anyone who doesn't follow this time-tested strategy is just a SUCKER who likes getting screwed by breeders who make up stories about how proven their lines are ??  Trying to explain the concept of . . . VALUE BEING IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER is apparently above 44Mag's cognitive skill level. 
Nobody on this board takes exception to you going to the pound to get your catch dogs.  We just can't figure out why you feel you need to SMEAR other people and go to such great lengths to prove your point.  YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE GUYS WHO THINKS HE NEEDS TO DIM SOMEONE ELSE'S LIGHT SO HIS CAN SHINE BRIGHTER. 

44Mag says . . . "proven lines, proven to who"?  The answer is simple: Proven to lots of folks who live outside your world.  I have a buddy who paid $25,000 for a dog.  Does that make him an idiot, not hardly.  It his $$$ and if that's what he wants to do, it doesn't make him a sucker, moron, idiot or anything else.  It just means that he recognized value to himself in something that other people don't.  Some people pay $100,000 for a baseball card.  Now I wouldn't do that, but that doesn't make the guy who bought it a sucker just because I wouldn't buy it???  You're argument is based on the premise that anyone who wouldn't do exactly what you do is wrong.  However, you're arguments lack LOGIC.  Some people are willing to pay big money for things that other people wouldn't.  That's why we live in the USA.  Because we all don't have to follow the same ideas, same script, same group think lifestyle.  IT'S CALLED FREEDOM. 

44Mag says . . . "proven lines, proven to who"?  There is an old saying, "better to be thought a fool, than to speak and prove it". (In your case, type and prove it).  In the meantime, I'll keep studding my dog out for $1,000 to "breeders" who keep coming back for more.  You can keep getting free dogs off Craigslist.  As long as both of us are happy, who cares.  It doesn't affect you in any way.                   

     

[Goose87]

Haven't you guys realized that our friend 44Maggie here does it all, so far I've gathered he's an electrician, farmer, famed dog breeder of 30 years that no ones heard of and if your not practicing his school of thought on things then your automatically doing it wrong, I'm sure their not all like that, but this individual gives people from CalifornIA a bad image.

[Goose87]

Oh a keyboard commando I forgot to mention he's the Rambo of keyboard commandos...

[Goose87]

Fella I rest my case with you, you just said a mouthful in my eyes, seems those young hunters you want to protect from Internet dog sellers are a lot smarter than you, one there's a reason the pups  were for sale in the first place and it was because more than likely the breeder was in it for profit not production, so therefore a $ bill being their motive not a better dog, just about the majority of the really good dogs of ANY breed, were passed from breeder to breeder with nothing more than a pup and a handshake exchanged, not saying it's everyone but you can just about bet your britches that if the breeder is having to take the measure and going as far as to advertise the pups however way, then the breeding doesn't speak for itself, word of mouth before the matings were done would have the pups already sold and the breeder wouldn't have to say a single word about it, now I'm not saying everybody who sales some pups a year is a profit minded person because there are folks who are bettering their breeds but somewhere along the way it has to be able to pay for itself in way, your buying the junk that nobody wants I don't know how things are labeled in California but east of the Rockies that's not called getting a good deal that's called salvage shopping, second I see that you've gone into defense mode and see that you feel you need to explain yourself to everyone, there would be no need to explain yourself if you hadn't put yourself in the position to do so, seems that every conversation that you get involved in on this forum your bashing someone just because you don't agree with their way of doing things maybe you were picked on as a kid or drank the holy water with the wrong priest and feel that you need to show masculinity everywhere you make your presence known, your right I don't know you and hopefully never will because I don't like to be associated with men of your caliber just judging by how you present yourself to others, then again I could be wrong and you could be an upstanding guy who really is a man of chivalry, but I'm pretty sure that's not the case because I believe the good lord blessed me with a gift that I've tested time and time and time again and it hasn't let me down and that is the ability to be very observant of others and read right through them like a .10 cent comic book, I've learned that a mans mind speaks for his character and being I've never met you and am solely going off of what your mind tells your fingers to put on the Internet I'm sure there are some that might agree with me, third  history shows  that for years the majority of Californians ( not all by no means) have always thought that the rest of the country needs to get on board with the west coast way of things and being you said you live on the family ranch that has been in the family for many generations I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that your ways and thoughts are deeply embedded in the fabric of your DNA and nothing anyone says or does will be the right way unless it's YOUR way, and last and I'm done, yes I see your catch some big boars and that's impressive, [pat on the back] but if you really want to impress show me some caught and TIED with one out dog teams, I can pack my two year old into a bay and let him pull the trigger on one or Stab one, leg him, throw him, tie him, and get him out alive, that's impressive to me, by no means I'm saying it's the right way but if you want to poke that chest out and label yourself as the BIGBOARBLASTIN44MAG then give my way of hunting a try and give the man vs beast way a go.......by the way this post cost me 10$ had to pull over to write this and just so happened pulled into a cafe.

[Goose87]

My point exactly so can the majority of the people you've been trying to call out, your not the only one that's got a good dog, one other thing I left out you say your family has been breeding this line of dogs for 30 years but yet you still have to "shop" for dogs, that speaks volumes in itself, you really are making it easier and easier for people to see you for the fool you are.....please keep posting, you expose yourself a little more each time.

[Goose87]

Man that I think you have a misconception that you've ticked people off when in all reality all you've done is make a fool of yourself, when you get called out on something you make absolutely no logical sense in none of your ramblings, I'm pretty sure the guys you "pissed off" don't really care that you'll put your money where your mouth is and if your referring it to me then I'm glad you feel you can back what you say, I can to, it's always to good to have fresh eyes and minds amidst a good discussion but you weren't contributing none, 97% of what you put on here your being confrontational about it, trying to convince people that their screwing somebody or they don't know what a proven line of dogs is,  you say your looking at for people and their hard earned money, that's good but hey jack its THEIR money, who cares if they blow it on a dog or whatever THEY made it not you, it's sad you have to leave the kitchen when the grease is hot and splashing on you, the forum is a very vast wealth of knowledge if you have an open mind to others ways of doing things. As far as the Dan moody deal, I know the guy who bought the dogs he lives in my area and is a very knowledgable dogman Dan moody was supposed to be a dogman himself but the dogs were nothing what he said they were and the mans big deal was Dan didn't want to honor and agreement they had, I hunted with one of the dogs and my gyp was having an off day and still put a spanking on one of the gyps purchased from him, so before you want to come in like batman and save the day, you need to figure things out first. You ever heard the term the best lessons learned are bought lessons, a little food for thought, at least their buying dogs at a young age and not a grown man bargain shopping the leftovers on Craigslist, I think it's wonderful your opening your eyes to other things and breeds but before you start telling one man he's doing it wrong you need to scratch your little noggin and figure why he's doing and why it's working for him instead of telling him that you don't do it like that and that he's wrong because that's not how you do it.....Happy hunting to you partner.