Need Advice ASAP

T-dog, in your opinion, can you never get rid of a bad trait with selective and careful breeding? As you may known I haven’t ever really gotten in to breeding yet because as I came close dogs have died and I’ve been set back. My thinking was to just breed it out of the genes?

Rockin, the vet did not put the hip back in place. The ER vet I went to wouldn’t do anything without their surgeon looking at him. When my vet opened Monday morning I took him up there and my vet said that in his opinion popping them back in would not do anything based on the X-rays. He said that he thought the joint was good enough and that popping them back in wouldn’t last and that they’d just come right back out and be more of a problem. There are quite a few vets that I listen to with a grain of salt, this vet on the other hand has known my family for years and will tell me his honest opinion. With that being said, it is his opinion, but he is an experienced vet and typically knows what he’s talking about. I can’t figure out how to post a video here or I’d post a clip of the dog running around some a few months back so y’all could see his movements.

All of this has been a huge set back. I’ve had dogs dying faster than I can replace them. At this rate this dog was going I planned on using him to really get started breeding. I do have a littermate sister of his and I plan to have her X-rayed now to see what her hips look like. But if she’s good the only male i have to breed her with is the older cur and I don’t think they would match up well. My only other option is throwing that cur to my old Dum Dum dogs sister (this is who I wanted to breed the male pup too, and she is the half sister of this other cur) and then taking a male from that back to the female littermate I have of this male that got injured. This may be a good cross but the father of the cur, Scooter, and the female, Mine, was a long range open dog that wouldn’t put teeth on a pig. Scooter is grittier as his momma was a shorter range gritty cur, and he’s semi open. The female, Mine, is silent and straight catch (her momma was a nice pit that was a true hot blood game dog). I worry that if I double up on the father, the pups are gonna lose grit and come out open

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