? about Line Breeding

There really is no standard definition as to where the line is between inbred and linebred. Both terms can mean different things to differnt people.

I've allways heard and thought of inbred as a negative term, meaning a close breeding turned out bad. And line bred was a close breeding than turned out good. In my opinion allot really depends on the breeding history of the dogs used in the cross. For example a Fauther Daughter cross.....If the dam to the daughter was totally unrelated to the Sire. Then take the pups for the father daughter cross and cull hard for negative traits that could be a good start in getting a line of dogs going. Ofcourse if you had some dogs that were allready tightly bred a father daughter breeding probly too close. Even so, dogs that throw negative traits because they were bred too tight might not make breding material for fear of perpetuating those traits further down the line but they may still make good using dogs just not breeding dogs.

Waylon