Breeding dogs...

NorthStar...you are definitely making assumptions about what I have posted...oftentimes when I write about breeding it is not about when I bred full blooded dogs with open pedigrees...moving on...once I got into hog hunting in the early 1980's I fed too many dogs that needed a dirt nap...so I bought quite a few supposedly good pups from good bloodlines and I culled most of them...then I found the right dogs that needed a little tweaking...and with the first young dogs they hit the marsh and were swimming in the cat tails and first time on hogs I caught two with them and then they strike a in a bad clear cut and run a hog for hours...they spent the night running and the next morning they were on my jacket waiting on me...that was my start with the good dogs...the credit goes to a man name Joe Manning, HB white and AC Zoeller and the men before them...all three are dead and gone now...I didn't create them but I improved on them to my liking...I did all I could to do that...the females I bred on the first heat is because they were well on their way to being awesome...every dog I bred in my backyard was what I called a good dog...they were all mt cur dogs but I bred a black mouth cur one time at the beginning to keep the size and quiet the mouth some...I do know dogs...working dogs but I lean towards hunting dogs of all types...especially hog dogs...you can ask me anything you want as to why I did it a certain way and I will have an answer for you because I do believe I did not leave one stone unturned on how and why I bred a certain way...I know what a good hunting dog is and I also know what a great hunting dog is...I also know what kind of dog it takes to hunt with the best of them in any company...

I never did say my dogs were scatterbred dogs...as a matter of fact I said I bred the females rather quickly so I could purify the gene pool...I said daughter and granddaughters...I did not say but they were also related to the sire and grandsire in one way or another...

this is a free forum and your are entitled to your assumptions...and I do think it would really be nice of you if you shared some of your breeding knowledge and techniques with us on this forum...fresh ideas are welcome...

1/2 of it is breeding and selecting...the other half is socializing, training and conditioning...maybe the next thread needs to be about how we do that...