Quote Originally Posted by CA Jack View Post
I disagree with this.

To just "match weights" with no regard for bloodline is to have zero loyalty to anything but "dog fighting" ...

If I have 2 super brothers, why would I devastate my gene pool by matching them into each other?

Even if 1 brother beats the other, it doesn't mean the other brother couldn't beat a dog that his better brother would lose to (A beats B ... B beats C ... C beats A ... happens all the time).

I would rather match both brothers into some other bloodline.

People who think like this are almost never breeders, just dog matchers (who have to buy their best dogs from breeders, precisely because they match and waste everything they have ...)
Very few people that are doing dogs care about the bloodlines they are going into in terms of trying to avoid a certain bloodline because of who bred what. You are clearly speaking from a breeders point of view and not a competitors pov. Those 2 perspevtives are different. If I made a breeding (just as a breeder) and 2 dogs from my breeding program were open at the same weight i would not want them to be matched into each other. On the other hand if I had a son off of mayday and someone who i didnt know or mind racing against had a littermate open at the same weight and everything lined up i wouldnt have the least bit of hesitation to hook into the littermate.

If you believe you have the best 40 and someone 2 states over believes his littermate bro is the best 40 in the world you are saying they should go into perhaps lesser dogs so they can avoid a loss?