Quote Originally Posted by swampdawg View Post
I think maintaining a line today is harder to do as it takes alot of dogs to have that selection of traits ur looking for,but alot of dogs will get attention from the wrong people.Times have changed and u have to adapt to them.I have given alot of my stock to 2 other people that are doing the same thing im doing as far as outcrossing goes.

I will agree to that. It's very hard to maintain a line without 1) a lot of individuals to select from, and 2) enough land/space to keep them.

Sometimes maintaining a line takes a few breeding steps, where you have to keep individuals from a few different matings, and you have to have the room to keep the dogs of each generation ... which (I agree) is not feasable for most folks in this day and age. So well said.