Message #148066

[Bryant]

Purebreedcolt,

The purpose of linebreeding should never be to produce better dogs than you start with.  Simply put, the objective is to narrow the gene pool so that you can control (somewhat) the consistancy of what your producing.  Ask anybody who claims to have a linebred program, and they should be able to quickly tell you the dog who the line is based on, and which sets the standard for what that line should be.

People forget that when you cross two unrelated dogs, your not breeding only those two but also all the generations behind them.  Say for instance you have a real good male dog and you choose to breed him but keep in mind the fact that 3/4 of his past relatives are sorry.  Even though that dog is good, that's still an awful lot of "sorry" to be breeding.