Best for Stats?

I'm still trying to wrap my head around what the best way to level stats are... 

I have a young puppy that I will be making my lead wolf - but I'm trying to decide if the best way to get him the most "use" is to:

A:  Replace him now and Level him as normal.

B:  Put him as a scout for the scouting exp/stats (Even though my map is mostly scouted, so I can't spam short treks|)

C:  Make him a hunter for a while for the hunting Exp.

I am also intending to breed him to my other high stat wolves - the issue that comes with that, however.... is that they are all related.  So I will have an inbreeding problem on my hands - which people rather much dislike on this site.   But I know on lioden, breeding your high stat brothers to their sisters/back to their parents was a good way to get stats increasing fairly quickly.  

So that being said - is it best to just _not_ do that as the inbred puppies/chances of getting stud requests diminish due to the inbreeding and 'dirty' lines?

The two wolves I customized are both level 17. I don't remember their starting stats, but I assume they were pretty much the same.

Leader stats: 568
Scout stats: 571

So I would just say that make them to a leader straight away and start levelling like normal. 

Also, inbreeding is just a thing that divides the users pretty evenly, there are users who care about clean breeding and there are users who don't. So just play in the way you want and don't care about if other users like how you play.

My starting scouts and leader are at about the same level, so I don't think there's much benefit from setting your wolf as a scout first.  And as a leader you can always level him up faster by using healing salves to get through more battles, which I almost never do.

And yeah, plenty of people don't care about inbreeding, just do what you want.