The people who have average animals, feed average, expect only average performance and have no concerns about how healthy the animal looks since its value is insignificant. These people cover their females from any male available to them for free irrespective of any other factor like his breed confirmation, ability, temperament, structure, etc. They expect average returns for the young ones. So the animal they give is cheap not because they are poor farmers but only because they know it is not up to the mark. These kind of animals are obviously much more in numbers and easily available. Any outsider coming in search of a caravan pup is certainly going to find these before anything else.
The best ones are always hid in close circuits and they simply don’t sell in most instances. But the CITYzen prefer to buy the cheap [hence fantastic] puppy and consider it and the information he received from a handful of people as the epitome of the breed. Since he acquired the puppy straight from a farmer. “And WOAH! The farmer’s dogs were as tall as a donkey! Since he is a farmer with dogs, he is automatically a hunter and hence the parents of my puppy hunt. Even if the dog grows out to appear way different than his breed, he is the best specimen since it’s from the natives!” Kindly give yourself a break from this illogical crocshit. No one stops you from visiting frequently, making new contacts every time and find out the truth. People will be good to you if you have an unadulterated intention of acquiring knowledge and helping the breed in the process and not just hunting for a perfect animal for a bargain. For that is thin in the natives, isn’t really gold. Dig deep. Visit and spend frequently and then you see the real stuff…
The people who rely upon the number of CH in the pedigree paperwork of their indigenous animal, may god bless you. By the time you are reading this, I presume you have been through my previous articles and other available information on the internet. One can apparently figure out that there is a resource gap between the Clubs and the Natives which everyone is trying to bridge *sigh*. So the native Mudhol hound completing his title in the show rings doesn’t make him the world’s best Caravan hound and his or his owner’s popularity doesn’t make him the most eligible stud for your bitch [Read this sentence again]. What makes him eligible is his compliance to the aboriginal specification, ability, temperament and progeny’s qualities. Even if all of these are found apt, the dog might still fail if his parents are not equivalently good enough. I kid you not; this will make or break the dog’s score card irrespective of however perfect the dog is. Confirmation of parents is of grave importance.
If you really mean it, you can’t depend blindly upon someone’s reputation and trust him to get you just the perfect animal. You have to chew your food yourself. Study thoroughly, not everything you find on the internet is true because it has a big shiny animal’s picture with it or since it is on Wikipedia. By that I don’t mean everything is false as well. One has to open its mind to everything, unprejudiced. Only then the mind will train itself to select, for your and the breed’s betterment. The gap regarding the knowledge and the access to the livestock bridges up due to the reach of social media. One can’t fool people with faux knowledge or substandard specimens any more. You will make friends to aid you in this path but also foes. The future houndsman will be an advanced, evolved being. He is going to sniff your trails and unravel your secrets from the clubs and the natives as well in his exploration of the breed. I am very conscious of this fact and a few wrong decisions will ruin a life’s worth of work. Better start and conduct as clean as you can. Speak as much truth and hide only what you truly consider insignificant. The upcoming breeder was certainly fooled by some trader in the past. Breeder needs to realize his mistake, accept it and fix them. Propagating the same mistake with a bunch of your followers who show and breed dogs they bought off you will affect the constitution of the breed by creating confusion. Your ego puts the breed in jeopardy which you claimed to save; will it be saved like this?