28/05/2022
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"Old Family Reds" - This genetic, blood or strain of APBT, originated around the 1850's in the counties of Kerry and Cork in Ireland. Old Family Reds were known as being predominantly small game "Red/White" dogs with both Black Nose and Red Nose. These Old Family Reds were bred to other fighting dog strains to create the APBT...as a result there are no pure Irish Old Family Reds anymore.
Before the creation of the APBT registries in America many fighting dogs were imported to America from Ireland, England and Scotland, and bred to American fighting dogs to create the APBT. Many Irish-American breeders of APBT in America valued the Old Family Red dogs imported from Ireland for their deep gameness, and acquired them from Irish immigrants. Early Irish-American breeders included, but were not limited to, Corcoran, Shipley, Feeley, Lightner and Colby.
Some of the main stud dogs for these Irish-American breeders were Colby's Galtie, Bruce's Jerry and Shipley's Red Jerry that traced back to the Old Family Reds from Ireland. These breeders linebred these dogs to create their own family of APBT.
Later APBT breeders, such as Bob Hemphill, Dan McCoy, Bob Wallace, Joe Corvino, Bert Clouse to name a only a few blended these early Irish-American breeders dogs to create their own strains of APBT. Bob Hemphill is credited for creating his Old Family Red Nose strain linebred off Lightner's dogs and using some of the Corcoran, Shipley and Feeley dogs as outcrosses.
True Old Family Reds should genetically trace back to the extinct Irish Old Family Reds and should carry at least 51% of their gene pool (pedigree) to be considered part of the Irish strain. They should be Red or Red/White dogs and can come in both Black Nose and Red Nose....Most importantly, true Old Family Reds should be deep game!
O.G. Loco
Pic is O.G. Kratos at the 2016 Washington ADBA show.
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