Looking for a dog that could do the work of a good watchdog, protection trained dog, or professionally trained dog. At that time, many people did not even know what an Airedale was, and the folk that did know would usually say, "An Airedale, boy, they used to be some tough dogs". Most of these people were older folk, (I was in my twenties at the time, so now I qualify for that age group). Many yea
rs have passed since then, and I have found, I believe, Airedales that are just as tough as the dogs renowned in the past. Even the kennels breeding large dogs at the time, (Ouachita, Mooreland, etc.), I found that the dogs really had poor conformation when they got large; they were just big. I, however, wanted a large dog that also had good conformation like the smaller Airedales, and it became more and more apparent that I was going to have to breed it, if I was to ever get it.
