Breeding for natural ability is the best way in my opinion...
Years ago way before the internet I read any article I could find about dogs...and two articles I read took me to a different level of thinking...but like anything else I created my own versions...
There was an article written about breeding and testing puppies and dogs in some European Country...these guys had an over the top kind of testing and breeding program that I couldn’t agree with on account it was too stringent...to have a dog eligible for breeding it had to pass some high level testing and earn degrees..a mixture of obstacle and hunting tests...a new born litter was inspected by a dog warden who did these inspections in a general area...he culled any pups that were not uniform in size or if the color was off...this was right after birth...also included culling down to eight pups on account the mother couldn’t properly feed more than eight pups...a little later, if I remember correctly the warden culled down to six pups...this way the pups could be fed correctly by the dam...the result...pups that were uniform in type...
the second article I read...at first it was pretty unbelievable to me but I kept reading by time I got to the end of the article I could see it made a lot of sense...
the writer was talking about unborn puppies and the mother to the pups...he was saying that in life there are many chemical reactions taking place in many things...like when you smoke a cigarette you inhale the smoke and the blood going through the lungs will pick up the oxygen to feed all our cells and when exhaling we exhale mainly CO2...in that transition where the lungs pick up the O2 it also picks up the nicotine and sends throughout our cells as well and we get that natural high...we know there are other things that happen and some probably have not been discovered even now with the technology we have today...he gave other examples but I am just using what I can best remember...he used the above comments before explaining his theory per the following paragraph...
he said...so why can't the female pass on certain traits to the puppies that are not from genetic inheritance...but from the things that she has experienced while pregnant...he says...if the female is hunted during gestation and she gets highly excited on a coon track...she is getting excited because one, she is a coon dog and it is in her genes...but she is inhaling this coon scent and he is barking with excitement and when inhaling the coon scent particles are going into her lungs...the blood going through the lungs then transport the particles throughout her body as well as the adrenaline and who knows what else...the puppies are connected to the mother and they are getting what she is getting...as they get closer to the 63 days to delivery they can feel vibrations and the excitement that the female exhibits or creates...
that was many years ago and I believe this man was way ahead of his time and he still is because many folks don't believe in this thought process...but there are more and more scientist getting in on this line of thinking and research...new ideas and solid theories are being proposed...and findings...the biggest thing I believe is environment...what they eat in there environment, how they are treated , boundaries given...training scenarios...etc...
so there are things we can do to improve the quality of puppies before they are born and while at a very early age...
there is more I am leaving out but the scientist are finding out more as they do the research...they are also looking for ways to train the human body to cure itself by the findings they are making...
none of this is new...it is the understanding of this concept that will take us to the next level...
