Life, bulldogs and likelihoods

I fully believe that if a person looks at what life itself is, he or she will find that it is an ongoing, ever present, every second series of likelihoods. Likelihoods come in great. good, not so good, bad and horrible. Sometimes they are serious either way, good or bad. Sometimes the line between good and bad is a fine one.

We all know that if we drive our car at night, turn off the lights and drive in the oncoming traffic lane, our likelihoods of having a head on collision are highly increased. The longer we do it, the more they are increased. Simple logic. Right?

Beyond this, we know our chances of survival are slim. Again, using our measure of likelihoods.

From the day we are born, we begin to feel and experience likelihoods. Think about it. We know where mama's teat is as our instincts as infants lead us to that likelihood. As we get older, we see things, do things, feel things to enhance our knowledge of the good likelihoods from the bad. We don't know ALL likelihoods as young humans, but we experience something to teach us a new likelihood almost every day of our young lives.

Now, not all likelihoods are bad nor do they put us in danger. Some are nothing more than the realism we learn day by day as we grow and mature. Some are told to us and are backed by facts we have learned, some of which are through experiences, both good and bad.

For me to try a running jump across the Grand Canyon would be the stupidest thing I would have ever done. I know this because I know I CAN'T. Facts learned. I don't need experience to show me that likelihood. It would be one's final miscalculation of likelihoods.

Likelihoods can be things we have striven for. For instance. I am playing right field. A ball sails over the wall by 3 ft. The wall is 8 feet high. I run to the wall, and even get a glove on the ball but it drops into the stands. I create another likelihood by my own will and experience. I know that if it happens again, I will try to reach the wall sooner, use my off hand to vault me higher and increase my reach, hence maybe increasing my likelihood of snagging a home run away from the hitter.

So, what do we have which gives us our likelihoods. So far, instincts at first. Then an ongoing growth as to experiences, logic, truth, facts and common sense. Add will. It can play in. While we're at it, add repetition, as practice usually makes one more proficient in ones likelihoods becoming more to the positive side of things.

Playing proper or obvious odds also plays heavily into likelihoods. In fact, some deem that alone as being likelihoods, yet to me, likelihoods are much more complex. While playing odds is often merely a matter of the present, the total gamut of likelihoods can stem from way back in your life................birth itself.

It is upon this ground that I want to relate likelihoods to all of our favorite subject. Bulldogs.

End, Part I

 

Part II.......Life, bulldogs and likelihoods

Chances are, we've all bred our first litter of bulldogs as adults. At least, very young adults at the youngest. We'll use that assumption as our ground.

Remember that striking it rich on our first breeding is usually by good direction by someone tutoring us, or just by our own study that happened to add up for us, and worked. Perhaps you decided not to even breed dogs until you had more experience, sights seen and hands on. That's often a decent head start to successful likelihoods either way.

As we go along, unsuccessful breedings having been made or not, we see more, and may deem different dogs more likely to produce than others. This is your experience, logic, common sense and sometimes even facts which you've seen and know. A dog which has already produced like crazy, for instance. All of the aforementioned are at work in this type scenario.

So, as the saying goes: "To each ones own". You may or may not have the same take or twist as someone else as to what is showing you likelihoods. This is your own prerogative, and as long as you are wise in your judgements, it's yours to dig that back foot in and take a home run cut with it if you feel the confidence and feel good about the likelihoods.

Likelihoods aren't coming to knock on your door. They take a watchful and retentive eye. They take all of the elements we mentioned in part I in order to maintain a flow of success. Should you not remember them, go back and look again. Even given all the elements, there will be failures, as I will always remember what my daddy told me............."The only synch goes around a horse's belly". Well thought out and sights seen under the experienced, watchful eye will be your best source of the likelihoods which can and often will keep your efforts to the positive side of things. So..........let's add recognition.

I have always maintained we should let the dogs tell us which ones to breed. Both by performance and by ongoing consistencies of desired things as we move forward, generation to generation. Knowing how to look for, recognize, experience and utilize good consistencies is a huge part of determining your own likelihoods of success, and further....long lived success.

One more requirement, and it is a key one. You must be honest. Honest with YOURSELF as to what you see, and what it means. What it is giving you and what it may not be giving you as to your hopes you maintain with each breeding. Each ongoing generation you breed should be based on the likelihoods you have learned via ALL of the necessary tools since even birth. You will be applying them to your breeding these dogs much the same as you have applied them to all you have ever done, do now, or will ever do with the goal being positive things.......i.e. success.

As I said, Mr. Success isn't coming to your door with a suitcase full of likelihoods. So, add Hard work, dedication, an eye for detail and efficiency, and add the demand for quality within a common sense approach, a fair approach to your dogs, and lots of realism. To KNOW your likelihoods, one need only to make sure you have earned and learned, and can apply all the requirements we've mentioned, because to breed dogs without them and by any other means but likelihoods, you are panning for fools gold.

TDK

 

Very good post TDK. Makes perfect sense, I just wish I could explain things the way you do, flawless.

 

Thank you very much david63, that's very kind of you! I believe the way TDK uses his words would make almost anybody feel they need to go back to school lol.