Twenty Basic Breeding Principles
1. Don't make use of indiscriminate out-crosses, a judicious
out-cross can be of great value; an injudicious one can produce an
aggregation of every imaginable fault in the breed.
2. Don't line breed just for the sake of line breeding. Line
breeding complementary types can bring great rewards; with unsuitable ones it
will lead to immediate disaster.
3. Don't take advice from people who have always been unsuccessful
breeders. If their opinions were worth having they would have proved it with
their successes.
4. Don't believe the popular cliché about the brother or sister of
the great champion being just as good to breed from. For every one that is,
hundreds are not. It depends on the animal concerned.
5. Don't use your dogs with virtues they don't possess. Self-deceit
is a stepping stone to failure.
6. Don't breed from mediocrity's, the absence of a fault does not
in any way signify the presence of its' corresponding virtue.
7. Don't try to line two dogs at the same time, you will end up
line breeding to neither.
8. Don't assess the worth of a stud by his inferior progeny. All
stud dogs sire rubbish at times. What matters most is how good their best
efforts are.
9. Don't allow personal feelings to influence your choice of a stud
dog. The right dog for your bitch is the right dog who-ever owns it.
10. Don't allow admiration of a stud dog to blind you to his faults. If
you do you are asking for trouble.
11. Don't mate together animals, which share the same fault. You are
asking for trouble if you do.
12. Don't forget it is the whole dog that counts. If you forget one
virtue while searching for another you will pay for it.
13. Don't search for the perfect dog as a mate for your bitch. The
perfect dog (or bitch) does not exist and never will.
14. Don't be frightened of breeding from animals that have obvious
faults so long as they have compensating virtues. A lack of virtues is far
the greatest fault of all.
15. Don't mate together non-complementary types. An ability to
recognise type at a glance is a breeder's greatest gift. Ask the successful
breeder to explain this subject - there is no way of learning. [I would
define non-complementary types as ones, which have the same faults and the
lack of virtues.]
16. Don't forget the necessity to preserve head quality. It will vanish
like a dream if you do.
17. Don't forget that substance plus quality should be one of your
aims. Any fool can breed with the other!
18. Don't forget a great head plus soundness should be another of your
aims. Many people can never breed either.
19. Don't ever try to decry a great [KING CHARLES SPANIEL]. A thing of
beauty is not only a joy forever but, a great [KING CHARLES SPANIEL] should
be a source of aesthetic pride and pleasure to all true lovers of the breed.
20. Don't be satisfied with anything but the best. The second best is
never good enough….
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