Comment to 'Am I Asking For Too Much...?'
  • Didn't we all get lucky on that first dog?

    For me my exceptional first dog is the reason I became fascinated with dogs on this deeper level. Mine btw was a mongrel pig dog (Ebt/boxer/?)  x old English sheepdog, a fence hopping incident in a dingy backstreet of a small mountain town. 

    I really think no one has "perfected" breeding, just when you think someone is doing everything right breeding for elite performance you'll come across someone doing everything wrong, or nothing, and accidentally producing better dogs. 

    I started my investigation into why my first dog was so good (when I was about 11 or so, lol) thinking it must be the Ebt, assuming a pure Ebt would be everything good about my dog magnified, and then an apbt would be all that and more. I was wrong. The qualities in my first dog are exceedingly rare in even the hottest gamebred lines of apbt. More akin to 3 or 4 legendary apbts in history, which never replicated the extent of their quality in their offspring.

    I've had a lot of dogs since, all at least part bullbreed, and none come close to my first dog, not in courage, heart, gameness, nerve and all that good stuff, for man or beast. Most from elite working lines too as opposed to a backyard accident in a bad part of town.

    My plan now is to just go through a lot of dogs, with all sorts of backgrounds, and enjoy each for what it is. I'm convinced searching for that ultimate breed or mix is a fool's errand.