Posted by Brad
on June 3, 2009, 10:12 am, in reply to "kicking arround an idea"
I personally agree with raising the standard and providing a channel to develop a higher dog. I feel that you should not be able to breed and paper/register your dogs unless you have a college level education in basic biology and genetics at the very least along with additional criteria based on the breed. This would help eliminate back yard breeders with no knowledge of what they are doing.
Please do not take this the wrong way. I also feel that you saying you want to get the breed back to its roots and then saying "I do not hunt but I do not totally condem this practice either. However for the most part this is not a hunting club." is not doing the breed it full right. The breed was designed for the purpose of hunting. Hunting is the true roots of the breed. It sounds to me like you personally are more focused/interested on making this breed a show dog with no interest in preserving the true purpose of the breed. I also understand there is more to the breed than hunting and there must be an all around balance of the breed but it sounds to me that you are not interested in the full spectrum and you simply will tolerate the hunting aspect of the breed but not encourage building upon it, which in my opinion is not going to create a true Dogo. By saying "I do not hunt but I do not totally condem this practice either." sounds as though you do not totally agree with the practice and in some way condemn it. So my ASSUMPTION is that you do not know very much about hunting and would not be able to develop such skills in the breed and from the sounds of it would not wish to encourage the development either. Due to the breed being a hunting breed, it should be a criteria to have adaquit abilities to train and develop this skill in the breed as a breeder. This is what I was talking about above in having education and breed specific knowledge.
I may be way off on your knowledge and abilities and possibly miss interpreted your statements and I apologize if I have in any way.
I do not hunt my dogs but would if I had the time and money to do so. I do however provide exercises that stimulate the hunting drive and feel this is important in keeping the dogs mentally sound. I also am not breeding dogs but I do however have the biology and genetic knowledge to do so comfortably if I chose to. However I am breeding other animals, plants, fungi and micro organisms on a fairly regular basis.
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