Thread: Hunting dogs vs pedigree dogs

As a breeder of "pedigree " dogs I could and should take umbridge at some of the ignorance in some of your comments.
But I'll leave you with this
Hybrid vigor works...until it doesnt
For every good one you get a bad one
A dog is like anything else you buy...researched cared for investigated and respected...and any good breeder of pedigree...or non pedigree dogs will have done their homework on all the physical mental and social impacts of breeding one line to another years before producing a litter.
Including the pigdogger whose lines bail hold point indicate superbly but drop dead at 5...or the pedigree guy like me who has 40 kg of fuck off on a lead to look pretty...but will bait bring a man to bear and not have kidney or hip disease...because I have spent 30 years researching and living the bred

Greyhounds are full of disease...100s a year are in offal pits all over the country if they are not fast hard or smart enough
1st generation pootrevers are hypoallergenic
2nd generation pootrevers die of kidney disease

Some people like fords
Others holdens
And my pretty certificates took a lot of work effort and learning...but my dogs will still do their jobs.

Just like the pedigree hunting/working/showing lines of my acquaintances

Dont put us all in the same basket as your ignorance or judge us all by your limited exposure