Thread: Crossing show lines

If you want to cook a chocolate cake you put into that cake the right ingredients to make that cake, not just unknown stuff like gravel as it will probably break your tooth , hey it might not to as you may just swallow it .
Working dog breeders do this to the best of their ability depending whats on the ground to breed to and breed to the traits they like in another dog and their dog - known ingredients versus the show recipe which is all about coat , how far its tail is from its hips , are its ears pretty blahdy blahdy blah --it may end up pretty but you missed out putting the chocolate into the cake with no extra bird finding drive ,bidability and all the other fine points that make a working dog worth breeding to. The whole process has enough chance in it why make the devide bigger .
A questioned I posed before -at what stage does a show dog that hunts gets accepted as a working dog and worth breeding to though?

Originally Posted by el borracho

A questioned I posed before -at what stage does a show dog that hunts gets accepted as a working dog and worth breeding to though?

Goes back to what I posted originally...

Originally Posted by Pointer

Goes back to what I posted originally...

I agree... performance alone would be enough for me... at some point you need to test of there is some ability to pass on the desired traits... it is unlikely the pedigree will indicate how.

Originally Posted by Ruff

I agree... performance alone would be enough for me... at some point you need to test of there is some ability to pass on the desired traits... it is unlikely the pedigree will indicate how.

I agree. Measured as you said against other great dogs, if the show cross was doing well, then why wouldn't you use it. But as you put above, being a great dog is one thing, being able to produce one is quite a different thing.