What constitutes a Bloodline?

[Patch O' Pits]

Ok , because I notice so many kennels just slapping their name on puppies and saying they are the " whatever Kennel" Bloodline which I find horrid; I wanted to know what everyone here thinks makes a bloodline and gives someone the right and priveledge of saying a pup is their bloodline?

To me a line is developed from years and years of researching lines & breeding consistent 'quality' dogs that come from good healthy stock with great rock solid temperaments and structure that have working drive. Notice I added the word quality. I don't consider people ( BYBs and puppy Millers) who pump out hundreds of pups with no consistency and poor quality to be actually producing bloodlines. JMO


So what do you think?

[lil_bit807]

Ok , because I notice so many kennels just slapping their name on puppies and saying they are the " whatever Kennel" Bloodline which I find horrid; I wanted to know what everyone here thinks makes a bloodline and gives someone the right and priveledge of saying a pup is their bloodline?

To me a line is developed from years and years of researching lines & breeding consistent 'quality' dogs that come from good healthy stock with great rock solid temperaments and structure that have working drive. Notice I added the word quality. I don't consider people ( BYBs and puppy Millers) who pump out hundreds of pups with no consistency and poor quality to be actually producing bloodlines. JMO


So what do you think?


Well Patch that was basically the same opinion I had...Many great dogmen and women have spent sevearl years and hours of time and research before being able to declare a loodline their own but now adays seems like these bybs and puppy millers get one unproven, poor quality litter and all of the sudden they deem themselves a bloodline.

[Patch O' Pits]

Well Patch that was basically the same opinion I had...Many great dogmen and women have spent several years and hours of time and research before being able to declare a bloodline their own but now adays seems like these bybs and puppy millers get one unproven, poor quality litter and all of the sudden they deem themselves a bloodline.
I find it really sad and also pretty arrogant of them to do this...It is a huge insult to the people who have actual bloodlines they worked so hard to develop :(

[Jasper]

Everyone has there own opinion on this so here's mine. From what I have read one can consider it there own bloodline when they have bred 4 gens of 4 different lines to create another, I hope I make sense there. I do think it's sad that ppl out there are buying dogs and breeding them, then calling it there own bloodline when half probably more of these breeders don't even know where they dogs originated from.

[Patch O' Pits]

There is no specific number of generations or lines or years that constitutes a Bloodline IMO because it is way more than that.

It seems that some of the newer bloodlines if you can even call them that are here and gone even faster, and most aren't really bloodlines at all. Some of them are just simply the name of a dog or the kennel.

Unless you have reputable and knowledgeable people to talk to about it, it can get quite confusing. That is one good thing about having a mentor or asking questions on the forums

[JCleve86]

Agreed. The whole point of a bloodline is to be able to pick a dog from that line more or less at random and know, more or less, what to expect. Of course there is some variation among dogs within a line, but MUCH LESS so compared to BYB Special Number 1 and 2. You can breed as many generations as you want but if you aren't producing a consistant dog time and time again, you do not have a bloodline...you just have a purebred dog (one would hope, anyway).

Depending on what you start with it could take 4 generations, or 12, or 20...it's not so much about numbers as it is about WHAT you are producing.

But that's just my opinion. lol

[Jasper]

Thanks for clearing that up I always read on the other forums that ppl can breed 4 different lines for up to 4 gens and create there own. Now I know the truth again due to this site. Thanks