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Perspectives

Saltisgarden Music Maestro

All Jacks Be Special

What is the best example of the breed you have Touchstar Freestyle
bred so far and why?
The best example of my breeding are my twins, All
Jacks Who’s That Boy “Hiro” and All Jacks Who’s more and more consistent, day by day. I think
That Girl “Yoko”. They are outstanding because that I have been very generous with the Breed in
they have everything--proportion, construction, general, because I shared my best stud dogs with
head, movement, temperament, and the details, the world, without being snobbish with anybody,
and, last but not least, they have perfect sexual and I showed my breeding program publicly, so
dimorphism. Hiro is a male and Yoko is a female, everybody could take inspiration, but that was
and nobody can mistake it. Hiro and Yoko have never my main goal.
both of my founder bitches behind them. I only
would improve on their eyes color, which I would Do you health test your dogs, if so please tell us
prefer to be darker, but I think is a real small detail. what you screen for?
I do, for the most common diseases, but after
What improvements do you want to make to the 10 years of health testing, I think the modern
breed with your dogs and breeding program? breeding pool is pretty clean.

I don’t really build my breeding program thinking
on the Breed in general. Of course, I have the What do you think makes an ideal JRT/Russell
standard always in my mind; this is the “cookie Terrier for show? Does that change for breeding?
shape”. But for me, breeding is the challenge with For me, the ideal Russell for show is also the ideal
myself in making every step better, in fixing even one for breeding. It should be. But we all know that
small details, such as eye color, ear shape, size, it is not always like this. This is not really a subject
and carriage, tail set, teeth and bite, health of that interests me, as fortunately I’ve never been
course, temperament, and putting all these things affected by the “Champion Syndrome”, so I’ve
in one subject, and then making my breeding chosen my studs always to match them with my

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