Message #55731

[TexasHogDogs]

You know what *I* think is the biggest demise to the hunting breeds of dogs?  Every Tom, Dick, and Harry "back-yard breeder" breeding half-roostered dogs and flooding the market with these $50 piece of junks that get passed from person to person until finally someone else ends up with them and breeds them AGAIN!  This is one of my biggest pet peaves...sounds so simple, yet there are those who simply don't understand that great dogs are not produced by crossing junk.

Bryant you could not have hit the nail on the head any harder with this statement !
Very well said , very , very well said!

This hurts the game as bad as anything does.   I will say this if you give a dog away to a friend and if he is a real friend that wants to hunt and knows the kind of dogs you have he will respect that dog but you cannot just give anybody a dog most people think they know the everything there is to know about a hunting dog and end up not knowing Jack.  You give a man a dog like this and because he has not paid his hard earned money for it he does not respect the dog and the dog gets abused because of it.  I have given more dogs away than I think I have ever sold and I have found this to be true nearly 100% of the time they just don't respect the dog as much as they would as if they paid you good money for it .

If  I got a breeding program going on and I make a breeding and have pups I have put that breeding together expecting the best are I would not have made the breeding I don't see how I could tell if the pup I was giving away was going to be any less dog than the one I was selling  from another breeding .  How can you know this being bred from the same family of dogs ?  When I make breedings from any one of my dogs the offspring all have the potential to make great dogs because of there Dad and  Mom and genetic history behind them so how can I give one away knowing he wont end up being the best dog I ever produced,  I don't understand that.

I will say this I'm sure there are some great breeders out there that produce a large amount of dogs to the public that still care about the dogs and try there best to put out the best they can but on the other hand there is a large amount of commercial breeders out there that don't give a damn about noting but papers on a dog and money in t here pocket and  ,  I got to admit I'm sure not every breeder that produces a large about of pups has bad intentions and do still care about the dogs and there heritages and tried to keep them with in the range of greatness,