sister vs. sister/brother vs.brother

[Officially Retired]

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.

We agree.

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.

In this scenario, I also agree.

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?

Here is where you spiral down the drain.

There is no such thing as "the best 40-lb dog in the world."

There are too many 40-lb dogs on the planet to make that statement.

You can say you have the "winningest" 40-lb dog on the planet (if that's true), but winning 6 doesn't necessarily make the dog "the best" (just the winningest).

Therefore, if someone had the littermate brother to my badass dog, and he was a badass dog too, I would simply be rooting for that brother to win his matches, while I select other 40-lb dogs to beat with my dog.

As I said in paragraph 2 of my previous post, "To just 'match weights' with no regard for bloodline is to have zero loyalty to anything but 'dog fighting' ..."