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There are lots of guys out there who've been breeding dogs, breeding good dogs and the occasional great one for many years . . way more than me. But this is a favorite subject of mine and I like to hear anybody's thoughts or methods. I've never been afraid to admit it if I find out I'm wrong or if somebody comes up with something better.
I was thinking about Archie Manning when I brought up Michael Jordan. Old Archie was that rare dog who shines on the field and in the shed. They certainly do happen. But I'd like to take a peek at his wife's pedigree . . I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out she was Johnny Unitas' half sister. Or Archie's cousin, lol.
Bud Lyon told me once about he and a friend hauling a big, blue Von Plott bred bitch to Wisconsin during bear season to breed to someone's Butch & Jill male. Turned out this male super dog had been injured and left at home so they bred the bitch to his brother who wasn't quite as good and had never been bred to. I guess one Butch n Jill dog is as good as the next, right? Anyway . . every pup from the litter made a solid dog or better. They got so excited thinking about how good they woulda been if old so and so hadn't been on the injured reserve list that a year or two later they took her and bred her to the male they intended to the first time. And every pup turned out to be a dud. As the story goes . . in the meantime this bitch had died or been killed or run over or something. Disgusted with themselves because they'd gotten greedy or overly ambitious and not just repeated the cross that worked . . they took a full sister of the now deceased, one time good reproducer and bred her to the first male they'd bred to because it was clearly him that was spreading the bear dog magic. And it didn't produce a single usable dog. That story kind of sums it up I think.
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Prey and Bay Dogs
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