Breeding Dogs Discussion

goose...you sound very impressive...I do appreciate your mind...I haven't seen my dogs ever wanting to eat coon but they will kill one on the ground pretty quick...and yes I agree with you in quite a few of the things you are saying...but you must know that our scientist have been wrong many times and the general public will grasp the idea and run with it...but those are normal things that happen and over a period of years others improve on the ideas...that is normal...I do read and observe things that happen and then I develop my own theories as to why some things happen...sometimes learning about one subject will answer questions about others...many times we theorize because there isn't any data available to us but one thing we can do is use our common sense and common sense solves problems...

learned behaviors...there are many times that breeders of great pointers have taken a bird wing with a string and stick and jiggled it in front of a well bred pointer pup of six weeks and that pup goes to a steady point...do that with a hound or cur pup and it will more than likely not point it...is it a learned behavior? maybe but more than anything it is a bred in trait...

same thing with a well bred racing greyhound...over generations the best dogs will win...to the breeder with an eye and feel for the racing greyhound he will select puppies according to those traits which he selects...and then when the dog wins consistently then it is proven that he has what it takes to win so he is bred to females of the same type...we will leave out prepotency just to stick with what we are talking about...this breeder selected through what he saw and felt and he was right...but just like in many things there are many other things happening behind the scenes that he doesn't have any idea of what is happening but it really doesn't matter...these other things that he doesn't see are things that go hand in hand with what he sees...

why are some babies born addicted to crack? why are some babies born with defects because of lack of certain nutrients.

that little boy I talked about who could eat extremely hot peppers like they we candy and which they didn't bother him in any way that I could see...I don't think he will gravitate back to how a normal preteen would react to eating these peppers...he should of been red faced and sweating, possibly blisters on his tongue and severe pain from the hot spicy peppers...he should of developed a severe stomach ache but none of these symptoms appeared to be bothering this kid...something must of happened in his formation for him to have adapted so well to eating birds eye peppers...many will say this is not science...it is only an observation and I agree...

I like tweaking...

I throw a sweaty t-shirt in the puppy house and switch it every few days with another sweaty shirt...I do that for about three weeks...I want them to see me as one of them...at four weeks or so I throw a meaty hog head in the yard and let them tear it up...I use hunger to my advantage...I want them to love it...I test them for winding and finding and finding which pup or pups are the best at it...I test for ranging out...I test for baying style...I look for natural first...training doesn't impress me...natural ability does...what we have discussed is nothing more than what has been happening since the beginning of the time when living organisms were created...I didn't read that anywhere just common sense based on what I now know...it's just a higher level of understanding...because we understand more we can decide if we want to add to what we know and do...I know I will put the pregnant gyp in the bay pen two or three times before she whelps...maybe it won't matter much but I am about tweaking and thinking outside the box...