BA-IV, I would consider that a concession as well. If he was mine and I was gonna breed to him, then I would breed him to a gyp that didn’t have enough bite. In my experience, you have to breed to the extreme to get the desired effects. So he’s got too much bite and if you breed him to a female that has that right bite, then your likely going to get more pups with too much bite still. If you breed him to the gyp that doesn’t have enough bite then you get a little closer to the desired effect…usually. Obviously there isn’t an exact formula or guarantee or this would be easy. I’ve tried doing it the same thing with the size of my catch dogs. It’s worked more times than not.
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I would concur on this. Actually just did this last year. Picked up a young yella dog named shaw, put him through the ringer and he made a dog pretty quick. He was just ROUGH, which is exactly what I wanted. Sketch doesn’t have enough bite. She isn’t going to bite a hog and make him face her. She is by no means a “make them bay” kind of dog. She’s more of a “let the em bay” dog if that makes sense. So bred her to shaw with the idea of the 2 extremes hopefully landing me somewhere in between with the pups. We shall see.
I like the way that was worded, about the difference in making excuses vs concessions. I think it’s 100% right. It’s the difference in why they couldn’t get the job done, vs what they got the job done in spite of.
I think at the very least every mans benchmark for breeding working animals of any sort, and certainly dogs. Can it get the job done alone at a high clip? If it needs help, or mitigated circumstances and variables to be successful, it ain’t the kind of animal i want a kennel full of, so why would I breed it?
It’s a way too high percentage of people in my opinion breeding dogs that have no idea what they’re actually feeding/breeding because they’ve never taken a single dog on their yard solo and really watched and paid attention to what the dog does and is.
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