Developing a dog

The last paragraph I copied from Deans post…years ago I developed the same theory…another extreme example is the game bred Pitbull meeting head on with a rank 300 pound boar hog and never back down or quit until he physically can keep going and until death without ever thinking of backing down…he is that way because through selection he was bred that way…in nature this dog would gravitate back to a normal average through natural selection…as all things in the wild live by these rules…Mother Nature is a beautiful thing…

Many years ago I saw where a lab bred an English bull dog and eleven of the pups looked more like the lab and only one pup looked like a pit bull but with a lab head…my final theory on why none of the pups looked anything like an English bulldog was the extreme genetic makeup of the bulldog have to be recessive genes so when bred to a more normal looking dog the extreme broad body and head did not display on the pups nor the extreme flat face…

With pups and young dogs it is all about winning and short training sessions…keeping it fun an not work…at some point in time the strike dog pups will need to learn some respect or like T-dog said they might not live over their first real hunt…

I also agree with maturity in the pups in minimizing possible rough situation…but nothing makes me really feel good about a pup that takes a whipping and gets back up and gets right back in their face…that is a lot of points earned for breeding privileges in the future…a pup that quits and doesn’t recover I probably don’t need anyway…I’ve ruined a few but not many…it is good to know which pups have that mental toughness about them…breeding a little outside the norm for the things we want in a dog…

Dean’s comments below…

Our performance dogs are manipulated by selectively breeding to posses " naturally" that which isn't natural in nature because such traits can't survive in nature because it's a type of self destructive behavior that is essentially too risky for the reward and the traits naturally cull themselves in nature until a happy medium is obtained for an efficient risk vs reward neutrality.