Old man...you have lots of experience and knowledge...you should share more for us to learn...especially for the younger generation...no since in them reinventing the wheel starting down towards the bottom where most of us started...but those that really want to learn can just get on the net and read and use what they want or need...I like it when the young guys can tell me how it is done...it just means they are the new up and coming generation of dog men and women...
And Reuben before you step on your own soap box again and want to strereotype the “younger generation” which I’m “theorizing” is in reference to myself being as I’m 30 and the youngest one to take part in this discussion, make sure your not standing up there holding a pot while calling a kettle black, based off your “observations”, just because someone is younger than you doesn’t mean they don’t or can’t understand a particular topic better than you, not at all saying that in this case that I’m in any way smarter or have a better understanding of anything than you contrary to what you assume, and I can assure you most of what I know about dogs and genetics in general didn’t come from the net, I have no need or desire to brag on myself or list my credentials, but will give you a little background on it and I promise they didn’t come from telling engineers at a chemical plant how ignorant they are, or a buddy of mine bragging on me in a bar room, or running wild through the woods as a youngster whooping with my dogs to become one of them, instead most of it comes from life experiences of actually living around breeding performance bred animals since birth, mainly from
growing up on chicken farm around game fowl and dogs, successfully raising and breeding my own cattle, a little from college, some from my personal collection of books and even some from the net, most of it from getting things wrong the first time around, and being as I’m younger than you, you have no worries of me “telling you how to do it” I’m not that type of individual, there’s two types of people in life when it comes to learning something, those that can sit there and tell you how to do something and those that can show you how to do something, you and I have a lot in common when it comes to unconventional ways of thinking but where our differences are, you fall into the category of those that can tell someone how to do it or what they once did and I’m of the sort to show someone how I’m doing it, don’t take this personal but for nearly 8 years you’ve posted time after time about
How to breed better dogs but yet where are the “better dogs” you’ve bred, not talking about the 7 generations of Mt. Cur you claimed to have bred years ago, we can all talk about what once was and that’s the easy part but we’re talking about what is in the here and now, actually having the hide in your hand, 8 years is plenty enough time to already be a generation or 3 deep even if starting from scratch, and as far as “reinventing the wheel” that’s as far off as it could be and being enthused about history almost as much as I am science, I’m pretty sure the first wheel man kind developed was made of stone, then someone realized a wooden wheel worked better for them, then along comes someone else who believed that a wooden wheel surrounded by a steel ring better suited their needs, pretty sure you get the gist, so in actuality there’s no one reinventing a wheel at all, of course all of the above is based off of “theory” as well, I’ve seen you tell folks on here that they don’t know how to breed dogs but yet those same individuals you’ve said that to actually frequently make post and share with us the litters and dogs THEY have raised and the game those dogs catch, evidently they didn’t listen to your assumptions about them judging on them actually having their own hides in their own hands, I enjoy reading your post and what you contribute but find it hard to take someone serious who is only talking about it and not actually producing anything, I mean no ill intent with this or criticizing you in any way and have some respect for you and your knowledge of dogs but am just being honest with what I’m “observing and theorizing”...
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