Litters

Most of my dogs do not have long pedigrees. I breed dogs not papers. My dogs are working family and farm herding/catching/protection dogs and are not show dogs, nor hunting dogs, although as farm dogs, they can be used for general hunting. If I sell you a pup and there is some unforeseen serious health problem, or improper temperament, or inability to perform, that surfaced from recessive genes, I'll replace the puppy after receiving vet documentation. No pup leaves my yard without a vet check and first shots at the Coldwater Animal Hospital. I do not care to ship pups. Please make your own arrangements. This shipper below comes to me highly recommended. Personally, I feel you should come pick up the pup yourself and see the parents of the pup. The ride home with your new pup is a great bonding time. The puppy will look to you as the new leader.    

I do not generally let WEB pups go before they are 12 weeks old.

'The great, prepotent dogs and bitches usually derive from a great line of prepotent ancestors. The converse, however, is not true, for a dog may have a spectacular pedigree and never produce a puppy worth the water to bucket him. The explanation lies in the genes.'   The New Art of Breeding Better Dogs

Test Breeding

White Boy  x  Patches litter

I have a litter of 7 WEBs on the kitchen floor. They were born 1-16-07. This is Wt. Boy X Patches, a brother sister breeding, inbred as a test breeding. There is no pedigree, as they are from working stock, off a cattle farm in Georgia. 

So far, the litter is proving to be very consistent. 

"There is no doubt at all that the intensely inbred test litter described above is by far the most direct method of establishing the genotype - the genetic qualities of an animal."  The Technique of Breeding Better Dogs by Dr. Dieter Fleig

Here is a pictorial overview of the WEB pups first time seeing a hog.

Conclusion

"Fighting dogs that bare their teeth, are nervous, or tremble not only are distorted images of their breed, they simply do not fit into our time."  Fighting Dog Breeds Dr. Dieter Fleig

It's obvious that these WEB pups have no desire to attack, chase, get at, or kill this hog. Not in one photo is there any sign from any pup of any aggression towards each other or the hog. The WEB is inherently not animal aggressive as they, as a breed, have been bred to co-exist with livestock and to protect them much in the same manner as they would other dogs in the pack. Notice in pictures A, B, and H, the pups are licking the hog on the mouth. This is a behavior that dogs display amongst each other within the pack as a way of showing acceptance and of establishing pack order. These pups have acknowledged the hog as one of them and will now protect him as one of their own.

At seven weeks these pups have proven themselves as true WEBs, displaying all the proper temperament traits. I could not have asked for a better result, this is exactly what I want to see in a  WEB. To have done this with ABs, OSWs, or any dog bred for hunting, would have been disastrous.  In the pups frustration from not being able to get to the hog, they would have turned on each other, fighting, maybe without an off switch, (as those types of litters are inconsistent in having on/off switches as well), causing the handler to break up the fight, risking personal injury. I can say this from personal experience, it's not an assumption.

Notice the remarkable consistency of type among the pups. Each one measures up to the strict WEBPS standard in every way, in physical type and in temperament. Of course their pigment is still coming in and will continue to for a year or more. Take particular note of the very square, flat heads, obvious even at this age. This kind of consistency of type can not be achieved over a short period of time, breeding several different breeds to each other. This is a direct result of many, many years of breeding true to type, breeding one breed to the same breed.  The WEB breeds true to type, in physical type and in temperament, every time, as they have for as long as old rural southern farmers can remember. 

"Every purebred variety of domestic livestock that we have, including all of our breeds of dogs, was produced, maintained, and developed through inbreeding." The New Art of Breeding Better Dogs

"There is no doubt at all that the intensely inbred test litter described above is by far the most direct method of establishing the genotype - the genetic qualities of an animal."  The Technique of Breeding Better Dogs by Dr. Dieter Fleig

This is a purebred variety of WE from a localized area of middle Georgia, used by farmers long before JDJ and Alan Scott were ever born. These are not American Bulldogs. They have always been White English.