Interview for the gamedog members, if you care to participate.

AGK, your answer to the questions was a superb post.

 

1. The internet: I think it's like many other technological advances. It can be used to further our own knowledge and awareness or it can be used as a vehicle to express or sell propaganda and lies. It really isn't the net itself that can be so villainous as it is the gullibility and inability of people to discern bullshit from reality and truth. Tv, radio or any medium can dispense bullshit. It isn't just the internet. It's up to people to break things down into the good and the bad on their own. If you're vulnerable to internet bullshit, you're surely vulnerable to all forms of it.

2. The American Bully: I feel as do many that I don't really give a damn what anyone may like or do, any more than I want them to make judgement about what I like or do. I really have a distaste for them calling them Bulldogs, but I'm not the nomenclature police and as far as I am concerned, if they want to make fools of themselves by way of calling fools gold gold, then I say fine..... Here's the rope and there's a big tree.

3. Bullies causing breed confusion: See 2.

4. What registry has our best interests in mind? I truly feel none of them do. Ralph Greenwood was one of my main mentors. With that said, things have changed with the pressure of our times. I remember a day when Ralph's hopes were to make a little money, yes, but project a better image of the breed, too. Registries have rather morphed into another dimension.

5. Conformation shows helping discern Bullies from Bulldogs? No. They haven't done anything the like. In fact, people breeding show dogs for the sake of conformation and showing only, have merely done what the Bully people have done but in a different direction and with lesser severity. Referring back to the registries, do they not have fun shows with a Bully category? How would that help in that they are lumping Bullies together with Bulldogs as a "TYPE" of dog?

6. Best breeding in the last 30 years: First of all, I don't pay a hell of a lot of attention to what others breed anymore. I used to. Not so much now in that I concentrate totally on my own and what they do in the competitive world. In this day and age, it's hard for anyone having less than a well seasoned tenure to account for anything back that far and do so with any actuality. I know of many breedings that have been made over that time that I take my hat off to and consider them excellent and done with great quality control and perception. But for me to rate any of them or call them THE best would be unfair to many who have made a great mark with any certain breeding.

7. How do I feel about the ADBA? Well, besides referring to 3 and 4, I'll say that I admire the reason Mr. Greenwood took it on. I admired his ideals. But as I said, things have morphed and things are just not in keeping with some of his ideals.
I also don't register dogs. I see no value but for the current things needed in order to show a dog.
First, parchment is not official as to the truth. The honesty of the breeder is the only REAL source for truth or untruth. Second, I really can't see sending money to someone so they can send me back something I ALREADY KNOW. LOL And as to registering them in order to show them, to me, is just another form of control and money taking for the privilege of showing a dog.......and if people would organize together and form their own, independent groups, clubs and associations, they could keep the money they make for much better use than to send a good percent of it to the registries. No one and no organization of registry should be able to dictate what makes a show worthwhile, of account or official, then take a lot of their money to be such an officious and self anointed sanctioning body.

8. The EBA: I believe their meaning is good. I believe they HAVE helped some people. Again, their being "sanctioned" by a registry means nothing. One problem is misconception on the part of certain people. There are those who view them as a savior once they have gotten themselves in trouble. This is not what the EBA is for and it is absurd to think they could possibly put themselves in that type situation and light.

9. What registry do I use? Explained above. NONE

10. What is my favorite line/strain/family? Well, I'm not about to brag up any dog or dogs, yet of course, my own family is my favorite or I would breed and keep another. That is NOT to state they are any better or worse than others. It's to state that I am happy to have them. I am happy they are still here and competing. While nothing is perfect, and there is always the reason to strive for even better and never stop doing so, I find them workable for that task. I have nothing to say about anyone else line of dogs. More power to them for the good and great ones they have produced.

11. What cross has impacted the most on record: I can't state that with any accuracy. I know that more than a few have created dogs that became popular and have done outstandingly across the country and abroad as well. People who have bred, bought, used and maintained those crosses would be the only ones who I feel can answer that question with any validity.

12. What breeder has had the breeds best interest in mind? I can't search the soul of another, but I know that there have been some more altruistic breeders of the dogs than others have been. I actually think that in all REALITY, most breed to improve their own, and not the breed as a whole. They can't and don't account for the breed as a whole because they literally CANNOT. If you breed dogs and it has bettered your own, then that is you having done the extent of your job and that is the only part of the breed you can better.

13. What was my favorite dog of the past? Well, my favorite may be one that overcame incredible odds, and may not be the absolute best athlete of all time. I can't make the call. Can't call one my absolute favorite, but I do have dogs of my memory that I consider elite. I would have to leave it at that. I would surely have to name you up to fifty dogs. I would certainly name a few elites in my eyes as having been GR CH Hope that I saw twice. Ch Shoshone that I have seen twice. CH Mordecai, GR CH GABE, CH Little Boots, CH. Clee, CH Sugar, CH Joe Willie, GR CH Double Trouble, GR CH 35 on many occasions, CH Weasel, CH Tommy, CH Tye, CH Ju Ju, and at least a score of others that were the dogs of others that I have seen.

14. My favorite dog of today: One not many have heard of. And I think I'll keep it that way. LOL Although I do know many I deem good to great dogs around the country.

15. Breeder I feel has impacted the dogs the most: Well, I'd have to go way back to the man who first distributed some of the finest imports to others and that was J.P. Colby. Many others have of course, impacted our breed, however..............from then to now.

16. Why is our breed in a fragile state: Government control, NWO, and our dumb asses voting our rights down the proverbial shitter. Dependency which creates control and power and that power disarming us and controlling our every endeavor they feel is a threat to their total control. Because "Any government big enough to give you anything you want......is big enough to take away everything you've got." Period.

A hearty "You're welcome" to your "Thank you"

 

I agree with AGK that your questions were well thought out, McCoy.

 

TY, Zy, AGK and Elias. Elias I don't want to add it to this particular, good thread and botch it up, but I will surely post something for you on the Tobe and Rose half of the dogs that made this old family of mutts here in the near future. TY for your interest in them.

 

Hell, it's all fiction, isn't it, Bear? HAHA Sure. I know what ya mean, and I can be nudged into writing a little "based on a true story" fiction one day soon.