Ok y'all talk about line breeding a family of dogs vs scatter bred. My question is how is line breeding essentially any different than getting say 6 dogs on my yard (none being related in any way and most of them being crossed up mutts) that I sure enough like and think are worthy of breeding, breed them, and start a "family" of dogs and start line breeding from there. Seems like most of you guys are dead set on pure bred dogs. But the few old timers I've had the pleasure of talking with will tell you. Way back when, you bred best to best. They didn't care if it was a black lab/ pug mix. If it hunted good it got bred. Seems to me a good dog will produce good pups. 2 good dogs should breed a higher percentage of good pups. But I'm not sure how breeding a gyp to her dads litter mate brother raises your odds. Or why people have converted to that method when scatter bred best to best dogs worked for people for a long time
Slim...I believe quite a few of the old timers believed in what was passed down from many generations of breeding animals...and way back then they probably had families of hogs, dogs, etc...and they probably had issues with breeding depression and realized it was due to too much indiscriminate inbreeding practices that was causing the majority of their problems...especially when they outcrossed and saw the problems to go away on the first outcross...so the old wives tale began...quite a few folks still breed that way...
not saying that is what happened...but that is what makes sense to me...
