JoeBingo
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Sunday morning I discovered the book I had ordered was left on my front porch, maybe left Saturday, and I've enjoyed reading through Lou Colby's Book of the American Pit Bull Terrier.
One thing I often hear said is that the Colby's never produced a red nosed pup. That however, isn't true. At the bottom of page 28 of Lou's book, he states that a red nose pup was produced from a Colby's Tige/Colby's Neitz breeding and J.P. himself picked the best of the litter (Colby's Topsey ... the red nose one) to send to Lightner. I wonder if that is to infer that Lightner may have started his red nose stock with a Colby dog? Interesting.
Colby's Topsey was a very early Colby bred pup and was whelped around the turn of the century. If you look at the peds, many of the earlier generations to Tige and Neitz were not Colby bred dogs.
Colby's Topsey ~ http://www.apbt.online-pedigrees.com/modules.php?name=Public&file=printPedigree&dog_id=351112
Additionally, I have read, either as stated by my friend who purchased a Colby pup from Lou in 2009 and had visited Lou on several occasions or elsewhere, but attributed to Lou ... "The Colby line throws maybe one red nose pup in a thousand." So, to say it is indeed extremely rare would be the truer statement I suppose.
Another, MOST striking, anomaly in the Colby line was noted in a book that Lou's brother Joseph L. Colby wrote and published in 1936 simply called "The American Pit Bull Terrier". On page 31 of Joseph Colby's book is a submission by Ham Morris entitled the "The Greatest Pit Dog I Ever Owned". Ham describes Morris' Nervy, whom he had purchased from J.P. Colby thus, "She was a dark mahogany brindle with white head and china blue eyes". Who would believe that the Colby's ever produced an American Pit Bull Terrier with china blue eyes LOL. Except for the eye color, Nervy was a typical brindle and white Colby dog. And how many today would believe a purebred and registered (not sure if Nervy was actually registered) BLUE EYED American Pit Bull Terrier? Most would dispute the dog was purebred. ... but this was the greatest pit dog that Ham Morris every owned.
While Nervy appears in Joseph's book, she isn't mentioned at all in Lou's book.
You can download Joseph L. Colby's book in *.pdf format here ~ MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service
Morris' Nervy ~
One thing I often hear said is that the Colby's never produced a red nosed pup. That however, isn't true. At the bottom of page 28 of Lou's book, he states that a red nose pup was produced from a Colby's Tige/Colby's Neitz breeding and J.P. himself picked the best of the litter (Colby's Topsey ... the red nose one) to send to Lightner. I wonder if that is to infer that Lightner may have started his red nose stock with a Colby dog? Interesting.
Colby's Topsey was a very early Colby bred pup and was whelped around the turn of the century. If you look at the peds, many of the earlier generations to Tige and Neitz were not Colby bred dogs.
Colby's Topsey ~ http://www.apbt.online-pedigrees.com/modules.php?name=Public&file=printPedigree&dog_id=351112
Additionally, I have read, either as stated by my friend who purchased a Colby pup from Lou in 2009 and had visited Lou on several occasions or elsewhere, but attributed to Lou ... "The Colby line throws maybe one red nose pup in a thousand." So, to say it is indeed extremely rare would be the truer statement I suppose.
Another, MOST striking, anomaly in the Colby line was noted in a book that Lou's brother Joseph L. Colby wrote and published in 1936 simply called "The American Pit Bull Terrier". On page 31 of Joseph Colby's book is a submission by Ham Morris entitled the "The Greatest Pit Dog I Ever Owned". Ham describes Morris' Nervy, whom he had purchased from J.P. Colby thus, "She was a dark mahogany brindle with white head and china blue eyes". Who would believe that the Colby's ever produced an American Pit Bull Terrier with china blue eyes LOL. Except for the eye color, Nervy was a typical brindle and white Colby dog. And how many today would believe a purebred and registered (not sure if Nervy was actually registered) BLUE EYED American Pit Bull Terrier? Most would dispute the dog was purebred. ... but this was the greatest pit dog that Ham Morris every owned.
While Nervy appears in Joseph's book, she isn't mentioned at all in Lou's book.
You can download Joseph L. Colby's book in *.pdf format here ~ MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service
Morris' Nervy ~
