Ron Ashbaugh
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Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Mercer PA
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Plan?? I think everyone has a "plan", but when the chips all fall these plans come to fruition a very low % of time. If you are serious about raising a good pup the best think you can do is buy one from two reproducing parents from a reproducing line, period, and even then your chances aren't great.
Reading papers, stacking pedigrees, ect are great to look at, but unless you have first hand experience with those dogs or experience with what they have reproduced, all your doing is hoping...and waiting for a year at a pop and lots of money and lots of time to find out it didn't work.
People have been trying to master the art of breeding good coondogs since coonhunting started. When you really look at the % of successful crosses compared to The ones that produced, zero, 1, or 2 good dogs it's blatently obvious that a zillion plans didn't work. Great to talk about and think about...but really great dogs come from all over and you gotta kiss a lot of frogs if you want something special
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