First and foremost, I am not a breeder.
I think before one looks at the relationship between two dogs is to look at the traits of the two and move forward from there.
I have never done a breeding with preservation in mind or looking to make dogs to make dogs.
The closest relationship I have done is half-brother-half-sister breeding.
http://www.thepitbullbible.com/forum...p?dog_id=47590
This male Hatchet is a pretty good dog. When he peaked I got sick and got rid of just about all the dogs. I kept him and one or two more. If I had not gotten sick he would have went to the show. I feel like he had just as good chance as any to post some W's.
Mims Bonnie was off Jiggs and Lucky. The percentage of game dogs produced by Lucky is out of this world. Jiggs was a straight Red Boy male but threw rough, durable hard mouthed head dogs. Bonnie had multiple winners in her litter. Her brother People's Joker was a heck of a dog. She had a winning sister in CoalField Kennels Mercy. When bred to Spiffy, Lucky threw Mims/DTA's CH Charlie (4XW). Charlie is the best, most complete dog I have ever seen. The above dog is Spiffy/Lucky and Jiggs/Lucky both top and bottom.
On the top Holly (Spiffy-Lucky) was outcrossed to a Garner/Kronos male. Both dogs were offensive minded head dogs. On the bottom Holly was bred to Chingaling, which was a Mims Snooty (Red Boy) to some of the old Molly Bee-Snooty blood back to Holly. (Snooty being the binder).
The best male from the cross on the top was Doorstop. Six out of seven in this litter were matched. Doorstop was not because he wrecked his teeth early. (Hard to say he was the best when others were matched but he was rougher and harder mouthed). Doorstop was bred to Bonnie.
On the bottom Purepower's CH. Skull (4XW) who went over 2 hours twice, both times due to poor preparation. He did it on his own with heart and desire. Skull was bred to Bonnie to get Pancake.
From there, Stump was bred to Pancake. Stump had a winning brother. I would have bred to him but he went far away. Pancake looked like Bonnie had spit her out and carried every trait Bonnie had from a puppy to an adult. When Pancake was a pretty good female and when she was ready to ride Mims Bonnie passed on. Her owner decided to keep her for breeding. Stump was born without a back foot and was placed as a pet. He was not pet material and when looked at he was a very talented dog. With traction, he could have rode up and down the road.
Thus Hatchet is the result of 1/2 bro-sis breeding when our group owned or seen just about all the dogs in the six generation pedigree.
Most every dog was offensive minded head dogs so even when the outcrosses happened, the litters had a lot of offensive minded head dogs.
We bred for those traits, even on the out crosses, the traits were the same.
I think it is more about selection than relation.
But again, I am no breeder.
EWO