An overdone or exaggerated stud tends to be prepotent for his good traits. That is why he seems to stamp his looks on his offspring. I remember Ch. Dreamridge Domino (an American Cocker). He was so overdone that his breeder decided to not evaluate his potential until he was about a year old. He 'came into' himself by then, finished easily and went on to sire over 103 champion offspring. I believe that he sired his last litter at over 13 years of age. We were lucky enough to own one of his daughters in the 1970s. All the best, Susan Cochran
----- Original Message ----- From: "JEANIE MONTFORD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:06 PM Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] Influential > Well you instance the effect of one particular dog there - but I don't > think that we can extrapolate that result generally. I think it very much > depends on the individuals concerned as where I have thorough knowledge of > my own dogs for instance, most are quite heavily linebred, not in the first > 3 generations I grant you but heavily linebred none the less, (one pedigree > having McGoogans May Fly 23 times in 7 generations) and I don't see a > reduction in bone, nor did I see it in the instances referred to in my > previous post. > And we also have to think about our interpretation of "bone", "lacking > bone", "too much bone" - we can have three people look at a dog and have > three different opinions!!! Happens all the time! LOL > Oh my..... I hope we are not getting into phen V gen here! <Big grin> > > The other thing I would love to clarify is your use f the word Exaggeration. > > You wrote > <<<, would also like to more clearly state that I feel we need more > exaggerated dogs used for breeding in Cavaliers--plain to plain begets > plain. >>>>> and > <<<I don't see enough exaggerated dogs to breed to plain bitches and vice > versa>>.. > > In this case exaggerated would mean "pretty"??? > I have never heard it used in this context before - usually when we say > "exaggerated" in relation to a dog we mean taken to extremes or overdone. > The dictionary gives us "To enlarge or increase beyond the normal. and "To > misrepresent by overstating" surely not what we want! VBG I can't see > that overdone heads are desirable. or the way to correct plain heads. Don't > we want to use a "correct" head? > Interesting differences in language and terminology aren't they? > Jeanie > > ========================================================= > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL > to start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author. ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
