Mind of the breeder vs Mind of the competitor

[Officially Retired]

Thanks fellas
Jack thats a great poem bro thanks 4 sharing it with me, & ur right on the money on what inspired this topic.

Glad I was on the money. As my favorite philosopher, Nietzsche, once said: "If you can't hit the nail on the head, please, don't pick up the hammer."

Thanks fellas
stonewall, I started out beliving, what I was taught, that I should only buy dogs from working kennels. I realized that was the wrong thing to do. Especially when your shopping with the locals. Too many times I brought a dog that I saw with my own eyes only to end up with a $750 collar :evil:
A few times those said culls where hyped to be the baddest, and it did appear that way, but the cull was turned loose in the woods with a bum and had to be stopped quickly. It would make me feel like i had something special when i would load up the new bad ass cull I just purchased. I learned real quick to belive none of what you hear and only half of what you see. I went on and on with the competitor approch but never had any consistant sucess.

Amazing what happens to a "local badass" when he steps up in class

da district, I started with a new approach when I met Jack. He was in my ear with his ingreidents and how much better the quality was than the average outlet. I also saw and talked to people who said jack was a liar, a theif, a conartist, you name it they called him it. The truth is even when I had other peoples mutts Jack still helped me with different situations. So I got rid of those other ingreidents and went to Tenn to experiance the Poncho diffrence. and what a diffrence it was :P .

Do people really say meanly things about me? :cry:

but still I only wanted to compete, but the more and more I delt with & talked to jack the more and more I wanted to breed dogs. in the last instance I ruined a dog that Im now looking back on as a aspiring breeder and kickin the competitor part of me. my question to you is, How do you know who to be on any given day? Every day I awake im a care giver, but im having trouble being who i need to be @ the time I need to be him.
wildchild

Well, it sucks to see what you care about die, or get stolen, or get bit by a rattlesnake, etc. You begin to realize that your "gold" is only temporary ... and, unless you preserve it, it can disappear altogether someday. This is why it is so valuable to learn correct breeding principles and to establish a solid breeding program based on solid stock and solid breeding principles, because without it, your gold will one day disappear. However, with it, you can keep producing your gold forever. However, the threat of loss is also why you never let anyone but the most trusted, and competent, people know where your dogs are or handle your dogs. Just because you "like" someone, or just because they're "related to you" does not mean they're qualified to handle/care for your key dogs.

What complicates things too, if you lose a good dog, is the simple fact that you form emotional attachments to them--and so it's a lot rougher losing a truly good one than losing a mere gold nugget. In the end, you're not really having any trouble at all ... other than mere bad luck. Your dogs are winning, and when they can't win they are losing DG. You simply can't ask for anything more than that. What you need to do is keep doing what you're doing, and maybe (if you have a snake problem) keep your best, proven dogs in above-ground pens. If you have a "circle" problem, maybe cull some friends/associates, etc. And, if you have an aftercare problem when you're going hunting, maybe get some more drugs (like solu-delta, instead of dex), which has better anti-shock properties--and/or hire an expert to come with you to the next shin-dig, if you can't be there for a full week after the deal. In other words, adapt and overcome.

To quote another great thinker, Benjamin Franklin: "Those things that hurt, instruct."

Jack