I saw a post on this forum by a young man selling some dogs. This has nothing to do with him or his litter as we are all confident, they are good dogs and more than worthy of their feed and keep. During the discussion, the character or honesty of one of the dogs in the pedigree came into question. Black Hand made a comment that got me thinking of a discussion topic.

Although dogs don't lie and people do, where do we draw the line on breeders and dogmen who lie? We probably all own a dog with one or two dogs in 7 generations that are fabrications by pedigree. I own a lot of stock down from Maurice Carver. He was known to lie quite a bit about his "recipe" and "cake".

We seem to draw hard lines on folks who lie when it concerns our dogs. However, the past is the past and no one really throws a fit too much about it. Tom Garner comes to mind as someone whose honesty is always questioned about how dogs may or may not be bred, or he does in circles I talk within.

Where is the line? What do we or can we do about it? And how much does it matter or not?

Me personally, if a fellow will lie to me about anything, then I have to believe he'd lie to me about everything. For me, I don't want anything to do with them on any level. Personally, business, dogs, etc. But I'm sure not judging here either. I truly believe half of what I see and none of what I hear.