Pure Dog Talk

John Buddie part 2: Respect, Reverence and Romance Master Breeder, John Buddie, Tartanside Collies, talks about the three "Rs": Respect of the individuals who went before, reverence of finding and holding these people in high regard, and the romance of the history and studying the lore of the breed. "If it’s all statistics and numbers and cut and dried, I think you burn out," Buddie said. In the second half of our interview, Buddie talks about maintaining virtues, the importance of selection and having heroes. "You can lose the existing quality in a line by not maintaining emphasis on virtues, especially when you are trying to achieve improvement in an outcross," Buddie said. "Don’t put so much emphasis on that new added characteristic that you lose sight of what you’ve worked so hard on to date" Outcrosses "You don’t always get the results you were aiming for until the generation after what you’ve done. The key is what you do with the outcrossed generation that makes or breaks you." Selection, selection, se