Breeding dogs...???

I bought this bird dog named Rex and he was out of 1972 National Champion The Texas Squire. The female was out of a champion daughter of National Champion Riggins White Knight. Bred in the purple and Squire produced several champions.

This bird dog could have set back the pointer breed 50 years with proper breeding. I spent lots of money, time, miles, horses, ect. to try to break this dog. Rex had a great nose but zero brains. I finally gave up and gave the dog away and regret that because I should have shot him.

Jumper Jim never won a championship but produced Double Rebel Jack and Rebel Wrangler that won 20 open championships between them. He could just produce good dogs. I bred 2 bitches to Jack and one breeding produced pups that every one turned out. The other breeding were all culls and the female was good and bred well.

I bought a bitch out of 6 time chamion Roll Call and she was great dog and then some. Handled like a dream from day one and just wanted to please. Everybody I hunted with then wanted dogs out of Roll Call.

They went to the guy that owned Roll Call and bought 3 pups. All three of these dogs were nightmares and would not handle and could care less where you were. I could have made the cover of PETA for the things I did to those dogs trying to get them to handle.

I started checking a little and guess what. Their momma was a sister to Rex. I had run her with a guy that owned her when she was young and she was just as stupid and worthless as Rex. My theory is this-----bad traits are more easily transmitted in dogs than are good traits. I have seen this too many times.

If you can see a dog hunt and they hunt the way you like I would not hesitate to breed them. Just because somebody that you do not know says such and such a dog is great does not make it true. I had one guy that wanted to breed his counterfit male to my best bitch. She would have been better off getting hit by a rattler than that dog breeding her.