Thread: What do I do?

Originally Posted by Pointer

The paper talk was in reference to this bitch you talk of. I don't know her, but even though she has a great pedigree, you seem disappointed with her with your recent comments. Its all pie in the sky. The dog is more important than the pedigree...

As for the COI comment, if the pup was to have a common grandparent in brick as you suggested, they would have a higher COI% than what Hales Smut suggested... Thats where I was going with this. Not having a stab, just not getting where you are coming from.

To put that in perspective... The bitch has every quality i would want in a dog... except she's soft... I can put that back with the right sire and produce all of her qualities with a better workable temperament.... if she was weak in any other area i wouldn't consider it. I will breed a litter and run them on, other than those I would trust to go with certain handlers.... what I run on will have the qualities I was attempting to produce or, sorry if this offends anyone, they will be removed from the gene pool. It's a tough call, but I am a devotee of Jim Clarke's methods and regimented culling of what didn;t meet the standard, once run on, is part of it I just have to suck up and deal with. If I am big enough to be critical of people who I believe inflict inferior stock on other people, I have to have the balls to be certain I will not do that myself.

The COI is my point about paper.. if a half brother/half sister mating has a lower COI than a commonality of grandparants, then I think common sense suggests it shows the fagilioty of the COI system... this is genetics, not mathematics... I still believe in good old fashioned stock-manship over computer formulas.