Summary: Breeding Rules from John Buddie, Tartanside Collies<br> John Buddie with L to R - Ch.Tartanside Picturesque, Ch. Tartanside Audaicious (lying) Ch. Tartanside Arabesque, Ch. Tartanside Limerick Debut, Ch. Tartanside Aliage, Ch. Tartanside Imagination.<br> <br> John Buddie has spent a lifetime with Collies. His Tartanside family of dogs is world famous and widely respected. His <a href="https://www.mcemn.com/buddie.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Breeding Rules</a> are a distillation of more than 50 years' experience and success. This is part one of a two part series.<br> <br> Buddie's original breed mentor gave him much of the knowledge he continues to share today.<br> <br> "This was mentorship in the days of letter writing, plus weekends spent doing kennel chores, brushing dogs, really hands on work," Buddie said. "When I asked a question, she would ask me a question to make me think."<br> <br> Spoon-feeding someone an answer doesn’t have the same impact as helping someone come to their own conclusion, Buddie observed.<br> <br> Buddie's "rules" are guidelines that are applicable across breeds and generations.<br> *Leave the sport/breed no worse than you found it<br> Show respect for the lines and breeders who came before by preserving that quality.<br> *The number of champions finished/ribbons earned is not the measure of a breeder<br> "There have been many important contributing breeders who changed the face of a breed who bred on a small scale," Buddie said. "For every record achieved there will always be someone who can break that record."<br> *Learn to read a pedigree<br> Research, look to breeders of the past, learn what they accomplished and how.<br> *Look to the grandparents<br> Most top producing dogs are just carrying the pedigree forward. Top sires, often the strength comes from dam side.<br> <br> "I've had great success using the Maternal grandsire effect, in other words breed a quality bitch to her maternal grandsire," Buddie said.<br> *You can never outrun a problem<br> "It's a lot easier to rid yourself of problems with testing now. But you have to admit the problem and deal with it. It can mean scrapping a couple generations of breedings to clear it out. But you have to protect your breeding program as a whole."<br> *Learn to see quality in other people’s dogs<br> "We make evaluations of dogs when we’re competitors… when you're judging you realize you weren’t as open minded as you thought you were."<br> *Attend national to see dogs that you wouldn’t see any other time<br> Join us next week for the continuation of this fabulous conversation.<br> <br> Pure Dog Talk is sponsored by:<br> <br>
