Is this a true blue gamedog?

[skip11]

Stratton and ADBA says that blue is indeed a color of the APBT. Other than this dog http://www.thepitbullbible.com/forum...p?dog_id=63910, I can't find any other blue gamebred dogs.

[CYJ]

It shows up more so in the Am Staff dogs along with the blue eyes. There was a old foundational fighting strain of Bull terriers out of Scotland. That were called a Blue Paul. If my memory serves me correctly.

The more popular strains our dogs were bred off of. Were the Colby strain, Corcoran, Corvino, Armitage,Donavan, Shipley,Lightner and others you will see on the oldest pedigrees. Like the Gas House strain of dogs, Burke and so on. Earl Tudor introduced a predomatley black strain of dogs into our dogs. Through the English bred dogs bought from the Canadian breeder F.G. Henry.

No doubt in the old country of Ireland, Scotland, England. A exceptional deep game winning Blue Paul certainly could have been bred into the Irish and English strains of pit dogs. There was no dog registry back then and breeding records were kept top secret. Cheers

[skip11]

Yes, I've heard about the Blue Paul/Poll but have you seen any blue APBT with a known pedigree in modern times? Titan Rook's Ghost is the only one I can find. I know Bellon Club's Soga is blue but there are a lot of unknowns in the pedigree on the top side.

[ManiacBlack]

here one i notice searching peds http://www.thepitbullbible.com/forum...p?dog_id=32752 and another http://www.apbt.online-pedigrees.com...&dog_id=231848 blue is just a dillute color of black or seal they used to call it mouse grizz and some times seal color

[skip11]

Those are seals though not blue. Imo seal and blue are 2 different colors.

[ManiacBlack]

true seal has a red tint blue has a grey or dusty brown but both are dilutes of black gr ch soga is deff a blue lol

[skip11]

Sorry yeah, I was looking at another ped. Soga is definitely blue. The other one is seal.

[CYJ]

There was also the rare Blue Brindle colored dog. My Father had one back in the 50's off of Mr. Trice's line of dogs. The rest came Tiger Brindle and another beautiful color Red Brindle. A lot of these odd colors are just throw backs coming off the different English/Irish and Scottish blend of dogs that make up the dogs we have today.

IMHO,Some of these traits come more predomatley through the AM Staff families of dogs. If your dog's bloodline goes back to some of the AM Staff dogs same ancestors. A similar throw back in color can occur.

IMHO, if you get certain color of dogs most of the time. Then up pops a puppy or two that is totally different in color from the rest. Is usually wise to hang onto them and see how they turn out. They make very good dogs, these throw backs sometimes can be bred back into it's same bloodline. Giving the bloodline for a lack of the proper word, hybrid vigor. Without going outside your bloodline and introducing another entirely new set of genes. Cheers

[Bonz]

Good advice CYJ.

[bossman311]

Good stuff