Very well said, and I agree. Perpetuating your yard with your own goals and criteria as a guide, you are the only one that can deem one of your dogs as 'too valuable'.

To the guy who is just matching dogs basically by buying prospects, grown dogs and early winners the next set of dogs off these dogs simply does not matter. They are going to be matched til their wheels fall off and on to the next one.

Both can get to the same place but take different routes.

I wish I had not been the 'not give a squirt of piss' guy early on/years ago. I would be on top of a much better foundation than I have now. Back then I simply graded dogs on ability, mouth and workability on a scale of 1 to 10. Knock down three sixes (as bad as that sounds) and we were off to the show. For those sixes I was betting on me, the 8's and 9's I was betting on the dog. If that makes sense.

And with that said perpetuating any of those dogs never really factored in at the time. Being young and dumb it was a "Saturday Night or Bust" approach.

I should have tagged a few 'too valuable' way back when.

EWO