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Date Posted: 10:25:16 03/26/10 Fri
Author: DKH
Subject: Re: Sport titles as proof of breed worthy?
In reply to: RW 's message, "Sports for breeding purposes" on 20:33:18 03/25/10 Thu

Is that your question? Keeping in mind that all sport is not the same;

Most sport enthusiast that contact me are very well equiped to handle the training and work involved with the sport of their choice...by and large, most have zero experience with breeding, and very few have any long term exposure to our breed. Most have to retrain themselves and rework their techniques to accomodate a Mollosser type dog. The biggest issue for me as a Boerboel breeder is this...sport guys/gals are the very BEST at working past a dogs weaknesses to get him to a point where he can pass the sport test. Anybody who does not believe this is uninformed. They have talents and tricks and experience enough to get titles on dogs that will never be solid enough to really perform the work the test is made
to demonstrate. These are the dogs they will offer to the public as breeding stock by virtue of the title. We have dogs in many breeds that have sport titles that should not be bred, look around.

The virtues that some Boerboels possess ALLOW them to succeed in sport, but some of these virtues, if not balanced by stability, reliability, and the steadiness required of the correct historical temperament, become a liability to the dog, the owner, and the breed.

Only the traits and temperament that good breeding bestowes on a dog can he pass on to his offspring...he can not pass on the good training he received.

From what I have seen over the last dozen years or so, in this breed, sport breeders are breeders by necessity, they feel they must engineer a Boerboel with more of the traits they require to be competitive in the world they operate in. Thus changing the Boerboel to what THEY think it should be.

DKH

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