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| These comments are soley the opinions of this writer and him only. they are not meant to offend or belittle anyone, their dogs or thier intelligence. |
| Due to the recent decision made by the attending members of the K.S.B.A which I was not one of, Kemmer stock dogs which are not white papered now cannot hunt in the kemmer stock world hunt. the reason that i felt it neccessary to comment on this is because a few of the dogs that we here at Ridge Runner Mt. Curs offer for sale are not white papered dogs. This will not be of concern to most people that puchase a dog from us, because most that we sell go to pleasure hunters. In my opinion this decision by the Kemmer folks which by the way I consider myself, is in line with most other organizations which are breed specific. the Kemmer Stock Breeders Association was formed to promote the Kemmer Stock dogs. Now I would like to ask each and every one of you , just what constitutes a Kemmer Stock dog. does it not mean that the dog is from the dogs from Robert Kemmer or dogs that descended from his kennel? Or any thing that is not even remotely related to the Kemmer which they just happened to let in? Now in my opinion the registering of the green papered dogs is a pretty good service to every one that follows the breeding practice of breed the best to the best. Just imagine if you breed this way and your hunting buddy has a great male that truly is the best that you have ever seen in your life. Your female comes in heat and you go breed to this male . Well if the male is a full Kemmer Stock dog and your female is an O.M.C.B.A. registered dog you still have a registerd dog. But what if the Kemmer folks closed the registration to only Kemmer dogs as the O.M.C.B.A. has done with its registration? You would now have a bunch of mongrel pups! Not really but you would have no breed specific papers now would you? Now in my opinion, the way the association was set up at the time was a very smart move. The purpose was to allow the omcba dogs into the organization so that the members could still outcross to some of the other dogs of the same breed and not allow there bloodlines to become so very stale. The green papers were to be given to dogs that are not full or at least 3/4 kemmer blood lines for people to be able to see at a glance that a dog was not full kemmer. I dont know how many times that you have gone to look at a dog of any breed and the owner tries to pass the dog off as one of his breeding when it really came from all the hard work of someone else. this to me is not how I like to operate. This same thing has happened to me several times when I was first getting into registered dogs. With this setup you could tell a dog was or was not a kemmer!! I don't feel it was done out of fear for any other line of dogs because the kemmers can hold thier own with any dogs out there. Now I have several dogs that are full kemmer and several that are not . I use the kemmers as a starting point for all that I breed. I do this because I feel that they are a very stable platform to begin with. I have tried a bunch of dogs, from several of the top lines in the mt. cur breed and have hunted with several more and it seems to me that every time that I see or hunt a dog that really pleases me that they all have the same thing in thier blood lines and that is the kemmer blood, some were in the background. so when I started trying to build a kennel full of good dogs to breed and try to get what I wanted I started with the Kemmers. And I bet if you look closely at a lot of the strains of mt. cur out there that a big percentage have some kemmer in them, somewhere. While I am on my soap box and this is my site there is one more thing I want to speak about.That is the conformation on the mt. curs of today. How many of the people breeding the mt. cur really know what the breed standards are? How many people really know what the dogs of yesteryear looked like and the true colors of these dogs from the past? Today I see alot of dogs that are being promoted that do not (in my eyes along with several of the older dog men)fit the breed standards. Now these are not bad looking dogs that don't hunt great, but they just don't meet the breed standards.I challenge everyone to look at some of the old pictures on the wall at Jamestown sometime, do those first dogs look like what you see running around on the grounds? Probably a few will but a lot won't!! The breed association was started to preserve the true mt. cur. Is this happening or are we going the other way? The old dogs always came in a wide variety of colors. If you look at the pictures I mentined above you will see this. But one in particular really bugs me and that is the buttermilk buckskin. For those of you that don't know what that is, it is the really light yellow that some say is white. Now these are not white dogs they are a color phase of the yellow and while most will look nearly white at birth they will get darker as time goes by. But the O.M.C.B.A. will not register these dogs. Why? I do not know. But they will register dogs that look like fiest dogs , perk eared, small 25 or 30 pound dogs. Now again I am not saying that these dogs are not good hunting dogs but they don't meet breed standards. Now isnt life just a game and arent we just small players in this game. That is the same way that I see this business of dog registries. Every time I learn the rules well enough to play the game it seems that somebody changes the rules. So what are we supposed to do? In my opinion just keep on playing sooner or later the tide will shift and the world will turn and it will someday come your way!! So breed them like you like them and I will do the same!! see you under the tree Chris Boone |
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