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Originally Posted by Sugar's Mom  i bought a nice show prospect from a good breeder. His pedigree was almost entirely red with champions. The show pictures were glorious to look at. i thought I was so fortunate to have acquired him. I looked at all his relatives in his back ground. The show website was awesome. i research all the dogs and found ONE line
in there that had produced some dogs to big to be shown. Wouldn't you know it? he took after them. I was so disappointed but he was the sweetest guy ever and even tho he was too big and gangly, he eventually turned a beautiful color. i did try to show him but at his classes, he was too timid to even walk and would even hide when I got the show lead out. So here I am thinking, so much for all my research and etc. But there is such a thing as throwbacks in a dogs lineage and he was sure one of those. So, my personal experience was that knowing the lines and parents didn't mean anything as far as how my dog turned out. |
We're very lucky when we find a wonderful stud with all the attributes that we desire that will reproduce itself. And sometimes that one specific breeding of two dogs didn't shake up the way we had hoped.
I have one guy in my program that reproduces his father each and everytime. Which is a good thing since his dad was gorgeous and a showing fool. My guy inherited that quality too, but much smaller than his dad.