History of imported pitts

I live in the U.S. and have traced my dog lineage back to 1812 when his ancestors were imported from Ireland, didn't know if there would be any way for me to trace the lineage further back for the pedigree ends with unknown when I select the imported dogs are there any records out there that I could search through. Any information would be so greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.

wow thats amazing, what line is he/she from?

Id be interested too n what line you have originaly from Ireland :)

did they keep track of the lines in Ireland back then?? id love to know who the breeder was :D

2 famous lines came out of Cork n Kerry....

what year? and what were they?

The breeders that imported the dogs from there were John PH Colby, William Lightner and Johnny Mc Donald.

i did read in jp Colby book that the best dogs he ever produced came from Irish stock. :D

This is gettin interesting :D :D

Welcome to the site jewels, get some pics up

have you got any pic's of your dogs and sorry what lines did you say they were??

The bloodlines are Mayfield, Chavis,Patricks, and Carver.

Would love to see some pics!

Is Mayfield still alive? you have sum nice lines in your dog or dogs

Thanks we're pretty proud of our baby's we currently have 7 dogs total 2 adults and 5 pups. I am working on gettin some pictures up.

and last I heard Don Mayfield is still alive.

Cant wait to see them :D Pedigrees bak in the early days where very hard to get hold off. But you hav some nicley bred dogs. Whats the most dominant line in youre dogs.

Patricks and Chavis are the 2 dominate lines

Im realy interested in the heritage of any Bullbreed. What is was like back in them days, what food and exercise they gave their pets

yah me too i haven't found much other than pedigrees i did however found sum old pics of breeders using tredmills which i was suprised they used those back then.

how far back was it, because Colby always had mills

not sure they werer't dated honestly up till recently I've never really got "into" pittbull history, I've just always loved pits i was raised with them my family bred them I never really gave much thought to their history before...I'm glad I did though cuz its really interesting and researchingthe history gives me something more constructive to do while i'm online lol

I love Pitbulls, they where very secretive here in the 70's n 80's. Today theres an epidemic of bakyard breeders

really what are backyard breeders never heard that term before

Jewels wrote:really what are backyard breeders never heard that term before

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lets say im one and i know a lad from down the street that has a bad as pit and i think they would have bad ass pups with my bitch i just breed them not careing about anything like health or blood lines.