Quote Originally Posted by HAMMER49 View Post
With people selling dogs from coast to coast it gets a little tough to know exactly what you're going into. Assume you set a date with a guy that is 3 or 4 states away. A mutual friend sets the stage, but a couple weeks in, you find out you are racing a half brother to what you're bringing. Both of you bought dogs from said breeder and like the results. Do you then pay the ff because of loyalties to the blood? Suppose its a litter mate. What then do you do?
Now as a breeder I would never do such a thing. I would also hope that no one whom has my animals would do so. That is the problem some run into when you make your animals commercial products. They go all over and they may or may not go into one another. Not everyone cares to perpetuate a bloodline, but you hope they do right by your blood.

The stage you set here is the classic example of what happens when people can't breed their own good dogs.

I would never "not know" what dog/line I was matching into

Although my matching experience was limited, there is no way I "didn't know" who/what I was matched into in the few matches I did have.

I spoke to all parties before the deal, I knew which dog (and what line) I was going into, etc.

IMO, anyone who has "someone else" hook a dog + weight for them is a moron ... with no control over anything.

I would NEVER (repeat, NEVER) match into an unknown person/dog ...

I would always talk to my opponents, and (just for conversation-sake) just talking dogs like dogmen, I would ask how my opponents' dogs were bred, what they'd done, etc. I always did this because I simply liked to talk dogs and was always interested to know what my opponents were bringing and why.

IMO, only someone who was brain-dead, and lacked basic human curiosity, would just "match weights" (like a robot), and would not care who/what they were going into ...
Not to mention the fact that anyone who doesn't first check who/what they were going into lacks basic self-preservation instincts (because not everyone who comes to dog deals is a dogman )

In the few times I did match, I always tried to go into top-shelf people (known to be honest, good sports, and to bring top-shelf dogs).

I would never just let someone else randomly "blind-date" match me and my dog into "any idiot" with "any dog" my weight ...

Jack