I lined the bitch because i wanted to line breed for the traits that we like in our bull crosses, the sires sire is the dams grandfather. we also have the sires sister, the plan is to line a dog pup back to her in the future. This is a long term programme that we have decided to do because the working abilities of our bull crosses is what we want and we dont see the point of buying pups from others that are bred god knows how, if we replace our dogs with pups that we have bred we have more of a guarentee of their abilities. The bitch had 12 pups, we didnt ask her to, it would have suited us fi