Your comments to me are of no value or concern. I have 5 generations here and will have more as time passes without any hereditary problems and Ive been breeding tight for many,many years. I will not spend the money on something at this point of my breeding program to waste money, YES, WASTE MONEY, just to apease a few wannabe know-it-alls who climb onto the bandwagon everytime a "new" disease is spread across the Internet that we all must test for. Now, these new fangled dog lines where who-knows-what is involved in their creation and let me also include the AmStaffs since they do seem to have the most problems, these are the people who really need to look into their own backyards and test their stock instead of breeding tainted B.S. because their stud is the flavor of the year. As for the UKC standard, well, I have had my share of productions who have done quite well, both conformationally wise, as well as weight pulling. My dogs really aren't as big as you may think. Pictures don't do them justice at all. Yes, my orginal dogs were the larger/taller castillo based dogs, but they were still not bad. Castillo was a champion bloodline when people were actually showing them as was Lar-San. What name you see in the front of my dogs pedigrees is my name. In the back of my name, the old blood. Nothing mixed in whatsoever, just bred my way. My combination. Whether you like 19" 70-75lb UKC dogs or not, is non of my concern. I've been here for over a decade with dogs all over. I have produced champions. Am I as well known as the breeders out on the west coast, of course not. I don't whore out my dogs, nor do I play the political game. lol.. I don't need to and I don't want to. It's pretty obvious, whether you like it or not, that I'm doing just fine. I have out-lived many well-known kennels and I'm doing quite well, thank you. Couldn't do that with half as*ed dogs, now could I?