How much is in there

That's pretty much where I was hoping this thread would go goose. My point was to try and show with a visual example of once you put something in your dogs, you can't remove it. This color pattern thing is just something I thought might make my point easier to understand. I don't mind this color or pattern and I don't breed away from it. BUT...even if I did, it's going show up. If I bred away from it, it would show up less and less just like any other trait. The thing is, those undesirable traits are still there, they just become recessive. Sooner or later they are gonna show back up and if y'all's luck is anything like mine, it will be when you can least afford it. So when you decide to breed a dog, don't just focus on the good you see. The whole dog has to be evaluated and if your really thinking, the same has to be done for that dog's parents. Another example might be that ole Kujo is exactly the color and build you desire. When you cut Kujo loose, he's kicking dirt in your face leaving hard as he can. He finds hogs, he gets the runners bayed, etc. All you want except you have a 2 hole dog box. Your catch dog, and 2 or 3 other bay dogs all gotta ride in one side because Kujo is gonna eat them on the way to the hunt, provoked or not. This maybe something that was created and it may just be that Kujo is a jackass. So if you breed that you are gonna get that in at least some of the pups. The problem is you may not know it until you have 2 years invested in one of them or worse yet, those pups don't show it but when you get around to breeding those pups, they produce it. Then you've wasted your last productive breeding to your best producing old female. Maybe she was all you had left to breed to from your line. And just like that you have to hunt a pack of muzzled dogs or abandon your line even. It don't have to be fighting or color, it can be any thing from those to hunt to intelligence etc. My point is I don't think a lot of us consider the weight of the negatives when we breed. When you don't breed away from them carefully, it becomes a staple. It will always be there once it's put there. It's something to consider and just a little food for thought I wanted to throw out there.

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