MAYDAY DOGS 2023

Grand Champion Mayday ROM,

The Next Chapter: Where are the Best Mayday Dogs Today?
Written By
Southern Kennels VA

At the beginning of the 90s, based on great effort, hard work, and dedication, the story of Mayday’s legendary rise began to be written. A story Southern Kennels lived and enjoyed passionately. However, as with any success story, haters are haters who did not want to accept it. Others, faced with MAYDAY’s obvious qualities, stuck around us as supposed friends, but, in reality, ended up being sweet talkers and exploiters. They were jealous and envious of the success of MAYDAY. Over time, they were unmasked and their real intentions revealed. On the road of life, you tend to cross paths with all kinds of people. Regretfully, we met and befriended fake people. That being said, I can understand the jealousy of the haters. You have to consider mankind’s ambitious nature and the eagerness to achieve personal success. Many tried to imitate or follow the line of work we did to campaign MAYDAY and his sisters. This work continued for 10 years.

From 1995 to 2005, Mayday, his sons, and then his Grandsons dominated the market and were winning at the national level!!! Then, the goal changed from campaigning MAYDAY’s offspring to preserving this bloodline for years to come. This breeding program managed to generate a good number of winners, champions and grand champions, all direct offspring of MAYDAY. It is easy to see how difficult and time consuming this was to whoever took on this responsibility. Our intent was always to leave a mark on the dog game while using a single stud dog, then his children, who in turn dominated the market in their own time. It is appropriate to mention the valuable work done by the owners of Mayday’s offspring who dedicated themselves to carry out in a responsible, honest, and dedicated way, the campaigns of these dogs. I thank them very much because without their very important contribution, it would not have been possible to write the story of MAYDAY, his Sons & Daughters.

AND AFTER THAT, WHAT???

Here came the task of finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. The task of finding someone that could continue the work of Southern Kennels and owners of Mayday’s offspring. The task of finding someone that could make intelligent combinations and crosses. It was necessary to find someone that could continue generating dogs that maintained and improved the qualities of MAYDAY and his best offspring. Such a task was not easily met. We knew by experience that it would demand TOTAL DEVOTION. They would have to do it as we did, abandon everything, and dedicate to doing a job that would be harder without the Golden Dick, MAYDAY. Southern Kennels worked very hard to accomplish what they did with the benefit of the Crown Jewel, MAYDAY. Without MAYDAY, this new leader would have to reinvent the formula and start a selection process looking for the CREAM OF THE CROP, (THE GOLDEN VEIN). For the legacy to continue, personal and economic sacrifices would have to be made by a person who has MAYDAY in his veins, a true admirer of this great specimen. It had to be someone who appreciated all the effort made until then and most important of all, willingness to pay whatever price to recreate what MAYDAY left and further his legacy. THIS WAS A UNIQUE AND VERY BIG RESPONSIBILITY.

WHO COULD THIS PERSON BE?

He had to have very particular qualities

1 * .- Must be a person that for the next 10 to 20 years, TOTALLY dedicates themselves to raise, breed, cross and PERSONALLY compete against the world, his bred version of the MODERN MAYDAY DOGS. However, he did not only need to compete, he had to win, he had to be the best, had to have the mental capacity, the energy, and stamina to continue to create new winners, world champions and Gr champions. He had to accomplish all this to stamp their mark in the dogs. Although his work may have been based on Mayday, his siblings, and sons, his own legacy would depend on him improving the dogs’ quality, speed, and intensity. This effort was to surely create a new list of champions and Grand champions.

I THOUGHT ABOUT IT AND FELT IT WAS ALMOST HUMANLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DO.-
2 * .- That person must be extremely demanding of his dogs and himself to prevent settling for just good dogs. This person should be aiming to improve the great work done to maintain the qualities and improve on them over time. In order to achieve this, he should develop a clinical eye and become an expert breeder to maintain correct linebreeding and avoid falling into the pitfall of inbreeding the same specimen which results in loss of qualities. In other words, the work would be more difficult for him because it required a significant economic investment and a long term vision for his studs and bitches that come from of a very exquisite and expensive selection. He would have to be able to know when to breed to a dog, when breed out, and how to breed back in, and with which dogs to breed and which not, WHEN YES WHEN NOT … .. IT IS AN INFINITE WORLD OF OPTIONS. A world where those who not know how to do it right, will get lost on the way and left with garbage dogs. In the last 100 years, there have been many who produced garbage dogs because they lack the know-how of how to do it right. (MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO MENTION IS THAT THIS PATH WOULD NOT BE AN EASY ONE. ON THE CONTRARY, THIS PERSON WOULD ENCOUNTER MANY FAILURES, REALIZE MISTAKES IN JUDGEMENT AFTER YEARS OF WORK. THIS PERSON WOULD NEED THE MENTAL CAPACITY AND CLEAR MIND TO CHANGE ROUTE DESPITE LOSING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF INVESTMENT. THIS PERSON HAD TO BE THE TYPE WHO WAS WILLING TO RECTIFY AND CULL EVEN IF IT MEANT STARTING FROM ZERO. ALL TO BEGIN AGAIN UNTIL HE ACHIEVED THEIR GOAL IN THE DOGS)

3 * .- IMPOSSIBLE MISSION.- For a time, that is how I thought of the task and of finding THAT someone. I felt it was impossible because in addition of the aforementioned qualities and requirements of this man, he should be a very close personal friend (which is rare nowadays) of MAYDAY AND HIS MENTOR. He must be AN ADMIRATOR OF MAYDAY AND THE WORK CARRIED OUT ON HIS BEHALF. He must be without the natural selfishness of human beings, A PERSON WHO CARRIES IN HIS HEART THE WISH, THE SINCERE DESIRE TO HONESTLY CONTINUE THE LEGACY.

That is to say, he must be a NOBLE person and of ethical and moral principles. This person should be all of that and still be A WARRIOR, what a difficult mix of qualities. Let’s imagine this person, a very good person to the public and at the same time implacable, harsh, and 100% confrontational toward his enemies. This person would have to walk the same path as MAYDAY’s mentor. This path shared by both will attract hate from many and admiration from others. At the end of that path, the dogs produced will speak for themselves.
THEN, AFTER MANY YEARS OF THAT TYPE OF HARD WORK, HE WOULD EARN THE RIGHT TO BE CONSIDERED THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MODERN MAYDAY DOGS.

TODAY, AFTER KEEPING TRACK OF THE RECORDS, GLOBAL COMPETITION, (NOT JUST WINNERS, CHAMPIONS OR GRAND CHAMPIONS BUT ALSO THE QUALITY OF THE OPPOSITION, COMPETITION IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND CONTINENTS, DIFFERENT DOGS OF THE YEAR, ETC) I RECOGNIZE THE “CREAM” THAT THIS MAN CREATED IN HIS OWN LABORATORY. THIS CREAM IS THE FOUNDATION, A SOLID GENETIC BASE WHICH WILL FURTHER DEVELOP HIS BESTIAL BREEDING PROGRAM. A BREEDING PROGRAM THAT IS ALREADY PRODUCING WINNERS. TODAY I SEE WORK AND A PRODUCTION POTENTIAL ON THE HIGHEST LEVEL. THESE DOGS, I AM PROUD TO CONSIDER THE MODERN MAYDAY DOGS.

IT GIVES ME PLEASURE TO SEE A FRIEND HAS ACHIEVED HIS DREAMS AND THROUGH HIM, I CAN SEE THE IMAGE OF MAYDAY AFTER ALMOST 30 YEARS FROM THE DAY THAT GR CH MAYDAY WAS BORN. WORK WORTH RECOGNIZING AND ADMIRE.

THIS PERSON IS NOT A NORMAL DOGMAN

IT IS A PERSON WITH A VERY SPECIAL PERSONALITY

WITH AN INDOMITABLE CHARACTER AND IRON WILL

A WARRIOR

A PERSON ABLE TO WORK 18 HOURS A DAY

WITH GREAT PLEASURE I SAY THAT I HAVE OBSERVED CLEAN WORK, WHERE I HAVE PERSONALLY SEEN IN HIS CURRENT DOGS, THE SAME CAPACITY OF MY OWN GR CH MAYDAY. DOGS THAT HAVE THE SAME INTENSITY, SPEED, POWER, STYLE, AND GAMENESS AS THE DOG HIMSELF, GR CH MAYDAY.
I CAN SAY THAT AFTER 20+ YEARS OF HARD WORK AND SACRIFICE, THIS MAN HAS BECOME THE NEW SOURCE OF THE MODERN MAYDAY DOGS.

WITH GREAT PLEASURE AND PRIDE, I CAN SAY THAT THE PERSON I AM TALKING ABOUT IS: CHICO LOPEZ