Okay, I DON'T want to restart what definitely turned into a negative thread... But I just read almost all of thread about 'Marshall Dillon'. Like I said, I don't want to stir emotions and the content of that thread is not what really concerns me. My question, after going through it, is this: if you don't start a breeding program by acquiring a dog from someone else's lines... How do you start one? Obviously, you don't buy an already finished dog. That much I garnered from the post mentioned. But it says several times that 'you have to start with a solid foundation'. But.. How? And by lines... Does that really mean that the dogs have been inbred? Is that what line-breeding is? Don't get me wrong. I understand that there has to have been some degree on inbreeding in order to establish the set characteristics of any breed of dog... I just was wondering if that was how a solid foundation was created?
I don't breed, although I would like to one day after I retire (I'm 26, so not for a loooong time!), but I am interested in knowing all I can about breeding and how to go about it ethically and successfully. The thread I read, while heated, brought to my attention certain aspects of ethical breeding that would never have occured to me otherwise... Namely that you can't just buy a pretty, CH. dog and start a great breeding program up! So...
How do you start a breeding program, if it's not with a CH. (what I thought meant "approved for breeding") dog?
Sorry if this is a dumb question! I'm just curious to know how the experts did it!!! Oh, and to reiterate, I am NOT a breeder! I have two spayed girls, and that's all I will have for many years to come!
