How do you determine what lines your dog "comes down from"? The most prominent lines I see in Bentley's pedigree are Jade Mist...but is that too recent to say that's where he "comes from"? I also see a couple Banchory, but those are pretty far back. I figure if you go back far enough you'll see a lot of the major breeders (Banchory, Barwoods, Macdega). And I see the illustrious Peter Pumpkin a couple times in Bentley's pedigree.
Just curious
I use this website which you probably already know about
http://www.pedigreelines.com/dog/show/name/cedar-sunset's-highland-hunter
It sometimes takes a bit of investigation and detective work as dogs are only registered on the site if their owner puts them there. So for instance, Bacca is not there, obviously, but his siblings are. So sometimes you need to follow the trail of siblings to piece it together.
I've only gone back 8 generations, but it was easy for Bacca since it was pretty complete already. I've only checked out part of Indy's because a link got broken and I need to try and come at it sideways (e.g. through siblings of a great grandparent...
It's fun, especially because many have actual photos of ancestors, so you can, in fact, see some of the trends.
p.s. Both Bacca and Robbie have Peter Pumpkin in the line somewhere as well, but I haven't yet traced it far enough back. Bacca also has Jade Mist line in there too.
Missjennygirl -
I'm so glad your trying to stick to the reds....I just love the colour - my personal favourite - though "golden's come a close second! It's gorgeous!
I'm still a little confused about the terms "pure for sable" and "shaded" though - I think it means only sables that don't have "black" gene and therefore could only produce more sables? And may therefore be gold, red or otherwise. I believe there are
shaded, pure for sables that may look like mahoghany sables. So "shaded" refers to some of the darker guard hairs, particularly around face and neck. But a true mahogany has the black gene. And therefore could produce a tri. Yes?
http://www.snovali.com/other/colors.htm
Bacca's red comes from both sides as he has Macdega and Cindahope on both his dam's and sire's side.
I just checked out Robbie's line....I noticed he shares not only the Alex connection but on their mom's side as well! Robbie's mom - Beauty Mark - share Macdega Glenhart, Town Cryer, Crystal and Gold with Bacca's mom, Rayna. Quite the little incestuous world we have!
Because of all this, a few weeks ago, I started looking in free "family tree" web-based software to see if there was some way for us to build our Sheltie's forums family tree (and see who is connected to who). Facebook has something, but I ran out of time and haven't gone back to this project yet. But it sure would be fun!
