Saltydog Catahoulas--doin' it my way

Good Gawdddddddddd!!!!! Took me a hour to read most of this . I have really no ideal who you are Salty Dog but if you been breeding dogs for 22 years thats a long time I have to respect that in itself . As a long time breeder of dogs myself I can understand not keeping all the dogs and sending some out to people that might have a little flaw here are there as long as the man knew and I told him about it sure the dog might make him a excellent dog. I can understand that and you could not use it in your program because of your standards but still it could make a dog for another man .

I would be willing to bet that if you are a true breeder of good dogs that some of those dogs you did not use in your program but sent out to a people that wanted them anyway I bet ya some of those dogs if bred true as you say ended up producing dogs as good as you had and maybe better. I have seen this many many times over the years its not always the perfect dogs that becomes sometimes the best producer of all in certain bloodlines . In the old bulldog game we could not do this it would end up bitting us in the ass at a later point in head to head competition but in the hog dogs I could see were a man would let some lesser dogs go out that did not fit his breeding program but could help another man out now Am not talking about dead on culls but dogs that had a nick here and a nick there noting major just not fitting your standards to stay in your kennels . Its not a crime . Like I said if bred true it very well could come back and bite you in the ass. I have sent some dogs out that are not my best but if you ask some of the people that own them and some that have seen them they will tell you real quick they fit the bill. Same as when I had the bulldogs its not always the best dog that makes the most impact of a bloodline .

Good luck .