Thread: Crossing show lines

Originally Posted by Wirehunt

Sigh. So long as your mutt isn't half pug put the work in and it will preform to a degree.

The breeding the breeding the breeding. But only to a point. If you don't put the work into them then they are all just a mutt, maybe a good mutt, but just a mutt. Some have a bit of inbuilt for some thing's but not other thing's, yet they can learn IF you know how to show them what you want.
Then you've got to get along with them and sync with them, which at times is way more then any breeding or anything else has to do with it.

A bad trainer can wreak the best breed dog there is.

as long as your realistic about the dogs temperament and potential I would agree with you wirehunt but to what level this dog can achieve compared to better breed animals will probably go untested and only ever end up a rural myth if its half good !

Originally Posted by el borracho

as long as your realistic about the dogs temperament and potential I would agree with you wirehunt but to what level this dog can achieve compared to better breed animals will probably go untested and only ever end up a rural myth if its half good !

How do you mean realistic...if the dog has a iffy temperament...its a fact, no need to be realistic about it...it is either of good temperament or not. I am however still caught up with the reasonable term...do you not think that the rough shooter, well some of us anyway, want a very high standard of work in the field from our dogs, just as we would in a trial...if you have dogs possessed and totally driven in their work, I cannot see reasonable as being a good enough level...a very high standard of work, I correct myself, a focused, intense portrayal of their prey drive, with an acknowledged connection with the handler...I for one would not mind in the least my dog being the subject of a rural myth.