Seventeen years have passed since our own Chastity, Hoytts Scheherazade, gave us "the Sting." They both continue to live in memory and Line. These beautiful Dobes whose claim to fame was not what they won but what they were continue to live through their protected bloodline.

To best understand Bloodline Judgment imagine that you own Hoytt's Smoky Mountain Dream CD, a great, great, grand daughter of "the Sting." You like everything about her, and you know with the right Sire you could duplicate her qualities. You search until you find a male that you find favor in, hoping that this male is not the exception to his Blood Line, which is how most breeders go about matching a pair, however... If you were Mr. Hoytt, you would simply take advantage of your first hand knowledge of past generations and find the bloodline combination that carries the composite qualities you wish to maintain. Is there any question that Mr. Hoytt has the advantage? Of course not! To emphasize this, note the X's that appear under Hoytt's Smoky Mountain Dream CD and Hoytt's Music Man CD whose lines are represented below (both Dobes are introduced on Flip Side):

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There are 127 stars above each representing a Hoytt Doberman and knowing each Hoytt Doberman gives you the insight needed to project the primary qualities of the pups not yet even conceived. Now you look for a male who carries similarities, and choose a Hoytt Dobe nicknamed 'the Axe Man,' formally known as Hoytt's Music Man CD whose Line is represented below:

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Now you have 254 Hoytt Dobes of similar type about to genetically create a composite of what they represent, and this, readers, is what BLOODLINE JUDGMENT is all about.

The problem today is that only a few breeders worldwide have created and maintain a 'clean' bloodline. Most breeders at best are limited by experience to the dogs they are looking at, and the more a Line is mixed the harder it is to predict the end result. The founding editor of Dog World Magazine believed that a breeder should not claim their dogs are from a given bloodline unless the Line was at least five generations all carrying the same Line name; anything less was just an out cross, as is our composite GM car shown to the right. So a simple analogy is that for some folks a "kit" car is fine, for others it must be the real thing.