All breeders creates bad and good. Our selves included. The breeders who tell different, I would be naughty and say they are lying
I have seen good dogs from La Cocha and I have seen bad.
NO ONE breed 100 % prefect dogs. NO ONE.
You can´t win each time, breeding is a give and take and hard selection.
The internet today is really something BAD.
Too many internet expertes on the ground who never visited people/breeders and ever hunted with a dogo, and too few who actually WORKS the dogs.
We do not work our dogs as much as we would like to, we simply have no possibility to - but we do NOT tell otherwise!
IF only breeders would be HONEST about their doings.
We try to place good dogs out with hunters to get feedback.
This is the perfect way for us to be able to select good in our breeding stock, since the feedback from a hunter is not "coloured" in any way.
The few hunts we do ourselves each year is too little to be able to base our breeding on. However it gives us a wiew over what our dogs content.
I dislike this talking about breeders, with second hand info.
PLEASE do not "talk" about breeders you havent visited and have had some experience with seeing their dogs work.
Kevin is right, he talks ONLY about his OWN experience. And this is the way it should be.
The problem with the dogo community is that some experienced breeders try to BRAIN WASH newcommers in the breed to believe that ONLY ONE BLOODLINE functions, and that is SO MUCH WRONG.
We have dogs from several different bloodlines that works well for us.
This we believe is important to keep the dogo healthy, too much inbreeding makes the dogo just weaker imo.
From Argentina we have gotten a dog very drivy, not from a hunting kennel, but a great reproductor of drives, then we have taken home a dog who comes from a person who works them, this dog is only good as oure catchdog, not on the ground, he is not fighting other dogs but simply not build for running. He however produced some good dogs with a female selected specially for him.
Then we have taken some dogs home who were in the medium of drives, quite okay, and easy to be around, but not the most healthy dogs. Some of theese we had to put to sleep.
Then we have used some males from other Eu countries, knowing only the dogs temperaments and curage, from the combinations where we used these, we got the best dogos for hunting until now, best nose and drives. Maybe not the best showdogs, but absolutely the best workers.
Just to illustrate, you can not generalize.
It is our expereince that the EASIEST part is creating a good catchdog out of a dogo, many breeders still only focus about the fight with the boar, but there is SO much more to take into consideration, like creating a dog with NOSE build to RUN, with other dogs around and a good and loving temper with people.
The art of good breeding is SELECTION. If you can not be criticial to your own dogs, then forget about getting results with the dogo.
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