Happy with my decision not to do it.Originally Posted by scratchin dog
My belief is that saving semen on a stud is like admitting you don't know how to breed dogs.
Three things are true:
1) NOTHING will make the dog, Silverback, come back and be my buddy again
2) If a dog's ability to produce was good, then his "traits" that made him worthy as a stud dog should pass onto a significant # of his offspring (if his traits didn't pass on then he's not much of a stud)
3) Silverback's good traits did pass on, to a number of his pups, so if I wanted get back in and keep Silverback's key traits alive, then I could do that easy as pie ... by taking his daughter, Amazon, and breeding her to a few key sons.
If all those dogs die off, then that's just the way it goes I guess.
I am kind of Buddhist in my views that you have to learn to let go. Also, using the crutch of stored semen kindof takes the magic out of breeding dogs. If I wouldn't have given Ouch a try as a stud, because I was constantly using "Poncho's stored semen," I never would have produced either Silverback or Ch Vengence. Sure, I could have produced good dogs with "Poncho's stored semen," but to me that would get boring after awhile. New potentially-good stud dogs deserve their own chance as studs, and if they're bred right they should produce too.
I am 100% confident in my ability to assess, and breed, great dogs ... which is more important to me than "the stored semen" of any dog
Jack
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