That's why I said "once the dog is proven"...
Not everyone breeds for money. Why would you not want a dog that is proven to be excellent, bred? If I recall, one of your first posts was about you wanting to breed Dogos to make money off of them, like your dad.
Fact of the matter is, if you want to help the Dogo, then proven dogs need to be registered and bred. That is why people send me their dogs in the first place, to prove them and make sure they are breeding (and registering) proven dogs.
The reason a majority of the Dogos are number 2, is because people are registering and breeding Dogos that are number 2. So why not register and breed Dogos that are proven?
I myself have no desire to breed and make money, I breed because I want better dogs than everyone else ( like to laugh at other people's pot kickers
jk). If I have a litter on my yard, none are leaving as 8 week old pups. Since I am striving for excellence, the dogs will be culled based on health first, then as they mature, looks will come into play. If they have faults, they will be culled, if I don't like their structure, weather it falls into the breed standard or not, they will be culled, then if they are not early starters (catching before six months) they will be culled, then once their teeth are set and they reach 9-10 mo old, they will really be sent through the ringer, and most will be culled... I will do it this way because I want the best and I want them to fall within the entire breed standard, including being able to find their own pig, and being good at it. Once I find which dogs are going to be "the best" and be breed worthy, the others (if there is anything left after the culling) will be givin to buddies of mine that will hunt the number 2 out of them and that I can easily keep track of... And yes, mine will be registered.
Take it from someone who has been there and done that. When I was younger, I got my first Dogo, and didnt register him because I didnt give a number 2 about papers, and really I still don't. I cared so little though, that I didnt even keep up with his puppy papers so that I could register him later. He was probably one of the best, if not the best, dog I ever owned. Since he wasn't registered, it limited my options on bitches, because fact of the mater is, people like registered dogs. People like to know where the dogs come from, blood lines ect ect. I bred that dog to one bitch and not breeding him more was one of the stupidest things I have ever done. I wish I would have bred him to a toy poodle, just to have more of his blood around. Now, although I'm lazy about it, I register my dogs. It's a great way to keep up with history and see what blood is really working, it also helps alot when your looking for another nice proven dog to breed to.
The male I have now is very very nice, very proven, and registered, and I got people beating down my door to breed to him. He has covered two very nice proven bitches this year already, and covering a third when she comes in in the fall, and covering one of the bitches, that just had a litter, again on her next cycle. Not a single one of the pups are being sold, all being kept by me, the owners of the bitch, or being given to hunting homes of people we know and hunt with so we can go back and get the blood whenever we want, and all pups are being registered.
As much of an @$$ hole as I sound like, I'm just tryin to give some advice. A different perspective of "helpin" the Dogo. You can register the pups, just register them in your name. If someone thinks they have an excellent dog, come and see for yourself. If you think it's excellent too, let them breed it or you breed it and do your farm out system all over agian with a new generation of pups out of proven parents.
Just remember, not everyone is in it for the money.
