Few thoughts about mudi breeding
In last days there was a discussion on Mudi forum about mudi-breeding. I put here some of my thoughts about this topic.
These ideas were written to warn, how necessary the checking our breeding dogs´ skills and instincts is for keeping the best of this breed for future generations. I don´t have time enough to found my own blog or my own phorum (in which I would let get in only people I want), write looooong letters about everything, etc.
This is not an article about wolves´ breeding. About that anyone can find tones of information on his/her own. Of course the question of natural wolves´ breeding is much more wide.
If anyone is more interested in that what I forgot to meantion here rather than loading his/her own breeding stuff and showing their skills, I´m only sorry with him/her 
To keep the breeding in a "healthy" way (or natural way, etc.), we should follow the way of selection of parents in past.
If we would take a look on wolves, we would find probably a small pack, in which the leaders are alpha male and alpha female, and only those two can have puppies. To get to an alpha-position (and to have the right to breed then) needs some important skills of the individual - intelligence, endurance and strength are probably the most important ones.
It takes some time and a lot of experience and fights to become the alpha male or female, probably more then 2-3 years, so it means once they start to mate and put their genes into new generation, they are already 3-4-5 years old, with all those necessary skills proved. Even there are no health checkings, we can say that only a healthy and strong animal can survive in nature for a long period of time.
Of course also some of the non-alpha dogs mates here and there, but this is rather accidental occasion and number of such puppies is not big.
Yes, we are limited by the range of dogs we have. It´s also very important from which parents, grandparents, ... they come from. If there were only few dogs at the beginning of the "modern" breeding (I mean after 2nd world war), we are limited much more. But I don´t think russian soldiers had killed all those quality and good dogs - probably they killed some of them, but surely not all of them. But of course we don´t know today, which kind of dogs had been used for breeding after that ... and we cann´t change it anyway.
By my opinion if anyone decide to breed his/her dog, he/she has to show first this dog is worth breeding and its genes are worth of keeping for future generations. Lying on the coach or standing in a show ring doesn´t prove any of the important skills of the breed. Even chasing the stick on the walks is not enough.
You can tell we don´t need those skills today anymore. This is not true. Yes, most of us doesn´t have a flock of sheeps or cows at homes, but we still can keep our dogs active and working - and yes, also the dog-sport is a work - it needs everyday activity, working mind, endurance ...
The mudi is still one of those rare breeds which can offer this. If we allow to breed with dogs which are not proved for work, we´ll loose those skills forever. And if someone is not interested in these, please, then go and choose another breed, which has been ruined already. But if you want to keep the mudi to be the real "Diamond from puszta", then please, think about that.
We should "loads" our dogs more to show their instincts and skills first and we should not breed dogs younger than 3 years. Working under some "positive" kind of stress helps to detect either physical or mental faults much sooner. And yes, we should not breed every dog many times - once any problem would "jump out" in its line, we couldn´t take it back ...
But of course, this is only my opinion ...