Just because you know how to hunt or work a Blue Lacy doesn't mean you know how to breed them. Breeding is a whole other ballpark and requires extensive knowledge and research. Throwing two dogs together and getting pups is NOT breeding it is an accident. Throwing two completely unrelated dogs together for a mating is a throw of the dice and hoping for the best. How is that breeding to better the breed and how are you ever going to make progress doing that? How are you going to correct all the "OOPS" that have happened with Pit Bulls and every other breed around that have still been registered as Blue Lacys? No wonder our dogs are such a hodge podge of breeds and none of them look alike. My biggest goal is to have the best foundation dogs I can find and am doing some very nice line breeding to lock in those traits. If you continue to throw completely unrelated Blue Lacys together you'll continue to have litters that look and act nothing alike from one puppy to the next.

"After all the most incredible race horses are called thoroughbreds for a reason. By the way Einstein himself was the off spring of  parents who were themselves first cousins - and he married his first cousin.  So much for the tails of woe you heard in school about the effects of inbreeding.
Some of the most inbred animals on the face of the earth are Holstein Cattle.  The reality that dairy farmers know all too well, is that they would go broke from the inferior milk production of the resulting out-crossed animals.

And for those who continue to stubbornly advocate outcrossing I ask you this final question:  Even if by random chance the outcross breeding in question would actually  produce a superior specimen would the animal in question be able to reproduce itself?  Would the greatness be passed on to its get?  No."

Blue Lacy breeders need to change their thinking about how to breed or progress will never be made  except by individuals in their own kennels and not as a breed as a whole.