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Originally Posted by TrishB

You'd like to think that you could give me the benefit of the doubt here and just take what I wrote at face value, rather than to take it as some sort of personal affront to your dog. I've never met your dog - but I'd like to think that he'd be one of the great, impressive dogs in schutzhund I referred to (and other various venues you compete in), rather than the latter.

Trust me Trish... I don't think there was any personal affront to my dog... I, like her, have much great confidence in her abilities as a schutzhund dog and I don't have to prove anything to anyone about her... She has proved herself already many times and will hopefully continue to do so. I use her as an example b/c I have the most experience of training her and can relate it here to this conversation... I use our experiences as resources for this discussion...

I have had 4 working schutzhund dogs in my household. I can honestly say that their true colors as a working dog (whatever venue) are better tested in Schutzhund than anything else. They all have their pluses and minuses and a decision to breed any of them is better made by knowing them thru Sch. otherwise their true colors may never shine.