Originally Posted by
Pistol
When breeding dogs you look for a sire and dam that can throw the desired traits you are looking for to create an ideal bulldog. If a dog has never been bred before you are basically checking their oil to see if they carry the desired traits you are looking for from the line. A dog doesn't have to be game checked to be a brood dog, nor does it have to be an ace, it just has to have the ability to produce the traits you are looking for as ingredients. When breeding a cold dog you are not necessarily breeding a cur, but your not breeding for a purpose either. Now if the cold dog in question has already been bred by someone who made the decision to take a shot in the dark, and the dog has proven to throw game bulldogs with no mouth, you would then look to find a stud that is known to throw hard mouthed dogs with wrestling ability, in hopes of one of the pups coming out with mouth, ability, and gameness.
Curs can produce great animals, and great animals can produce curs, but with a cold dog you are just betting your money on what you think the pedigree will produce. Many cold dogs have produced well, but I would much rather have a bulldog using up one of my chain spots. If you are patient and willing to take a chance then by all means do it. When you are a kennel that is consistantly competing you soon realize that empty chain spots are like gold, so to waste them on a dog that you can't show is a tough thing to do. Now I am not saying the cold dog on that chain can't produce, but when you are breeding and keeping full litters of dogs for competition you are taking a 6-9 chain spot gamble.