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You're right Tribal Rats. How often do people say how great their dogs are because three generations back there was a champion. My Laney, a BYB purchase... oh how much I have learned in a year's time... has some good named dogs in her pedigree, about four generations back. One was a top producing sire, and it is evident, that in just three generations of indiscriminate breeding, just about everything that was positive has been removed. She's sway backed and long backed, short legged, ears aren't lobular enough, muzzle is too long, has a horrific gait (she bobs and weaves and side gaits), of all the dogs, has the least stable temperament, etc. oh.. and she's of a disqualified color.
Sure, she has some good points, every dog does, but it would take 10 generations, quite possibly more, to bring a dog of her quality back to the quality of her great grandsire. That is so sad, and as I say, breeders, like the one that produced Laney, are a slap in the face to everyone that loves these dogs and works to improve them.
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