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Originally Posted by MOhillbilly
Nothing wrong with bein a dog snob. Ive had many off champions.
IMO you tend to get a better dog body and mind when you spend alittle. This isnt always true and the 'good dogs are where you find them' is alot more hit and miss than goin to someone who knows there dogs front and back.
you into the whole pedigree research?
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My nature is to over-research stuff before I spend signfiicant scratch on it (I wonder if that's why baseball appeals to me...).
So it's not exactly that I'm into 'pedigree research', but I spent about 4-5 months following labrador lines, etc... to find the lines and attributes that I wanted in the pup. Most of it was working with breeders and finding out what they looked for in their stock, what they got from each line, etc... and just compiling my info.
Like I said - I wouldn't trade my 2 chocolates for anything, but I flat got lucky with them. I wasn't willing to go back to the well a 3rd time. Sooner or later I was going to end up with a lemon. So I bucked up the coin to get a more sure thing.