WOW, that is exactly right. Unless you are hunting with the people you place the dogs with on a regular basis, it's hard even then to just take someone else's word for what a dog is doing. For me its first hand observations only for the most part. Very few people make the same observations when watching the same thing. Its kinda like watching boxing. One judge says this guy won the round this judge says the other did. So i like to judge for myself. I wasted a breeding to a real good gyp because I took the word of a friend that I thought knew what he was talking about. I needed an outcross and bred to a male on his word. Then hunted with him later. It made me sick at my stomack to watch the way he preformed. The pups turned out but I never bred to any of them because of that male dog. I say all this to show that you have to be your own critic of your own product. You have to have a standard and know that every pup or every litter isn't going to meet your standards and you alone have to be big enough to know when to pull the plug on a litter. If i dont have a very high turn out percentage, then more than likely it doesn't matter how special that one dog out of the litter was, I won't breed it. Consistency is a major factor for me and what i do because I cant afford to feed a ton of dogs.
yes indeed...that is how it is...
