well...I left the ETHD open by accident while I went to bass pro shop shopping for the grand kids christmas...so I was online but not really here...
really what I was saying is this...when you have registration papers on a line of dogs and you really can't find another dog of the same breed that has the qualities I am looking for to improve my papered dogs...then I would be stuck without many options because now I am restricted to what I can do to improve my dogs...that would be a problem for me if I cared much about those papers...lets say I have mt curs and I need better stopping power and I know there is a Catahoula line that are pretty fair hunting dogs that are known for their stopping power...they are silent on track, another plus because some of my dogs are a little too open as well...so if I cared so much about papers I wouldn't make that cross...but if I don't care about papers I would research until I thought I picked the best cat of that line to breed then I would do it...in other words I wouldn't feel so restricted...because I like my mt curs I would do my best to pick the pups that inherited the qualities I liked and slowly breed back to mt cur until I had 3/4 to 7/8th mt cur and hopefully have captured the qualities I wanted from the cat...
I have nothing against papers at all...but I don't care enough about them to maintain them...
