In my line, there is a preponderance of Tonkawa as Roemeo is very linebred dog bred by Mary out of two dogs bred by Hendrix Harper. (Tonkawa goes back to mostly Ruffian dogs with a small amount of X-Pert). Click on their names to see their pedigrees. Some of my favorite am staffs were bred by Hendrix Harper of Tonkawa and are pictured below. I also fell in love with some other old lines, finding that they had something great to add to what I am trying to accomplish, and I thank those breeders that are helping me to achieve the dream of producing the best amstaffs I can. Dogs that I currently own go back to Rowdytown, Old Sierra, Buena Vista, Tonkawa, a bit of Sindelar, a bit of Magnolia, a bit of Rounders. I feel very lucky to have such a gene pool to work with, and I will not limit myself to "just" Ruffian since I've seen some problems with tightly breeding on that line, although I definitely believe it to be the greatest line that has existed. I love the fiery intelligence of the X-Pert dogs and feel proud to have added their contribution to my breeding. (this page will take about 5-6 minutes to load over a 56K modem but the pictures are worth it) Ch Tonkawa Chief Red Cloud, OFA 3/15/1983
I took one look at this dog and was hooked on Tonkawa. Roemeo's paternal grandfather and brother to Carmel Candy. ************* (in Tai's pedigree) ********************* Roemeo's maternal grandmother and sister to Big Tex 2/15/1984
***************** Ch Tonkawa's Big Tex, OFA (Roemeo's Sire) Son of Red Cloud 2/15/1984 Picture used with permission of Jodi Petiach of Sunbolt Am Staffs. Please obtain owner's permission before using. ******************** Ch Tonkawa Texas Two-Step (Roemeo's Dam) Daughter of Carmel Candy 05/29/1988
****************** 3/5/1978 ************** Ch Ruffian Hercules of Har-wyn 02/22/1969
******* Ch Grand Prix Icon O'Class, OFA Excellent (Sydney's sire) ****** Ch Grand Prix Ravenstar Tarkus (In Tai's and Syd's pedigrees)
****** Ch Grimloc's Woodys Gone Rudy (Orion, Samson and Tristam's grandsire)
***** Can Ch Sierra's Max Bandit In Remi's pedigree (greatgreatgrandsire) ***** BISS (National) Ch Knight Crusader (2 pics)
The following dogs also appear in my dog's pedigrees ****** 5/30/1973
****** 7/7/1973 ****** 2/22/1987 ****** Int/Can/Am Ch Chi Town Chester B Good Amy's father, Amber and Breeze's grandsire, Killian's great-grandsire 6/11/1990 ****** Amy's grand-father ****** 04/29/1949 ****** BISS/BIS Ch Ruffian Red Rock of Harwyn 09/15/1972
****** 06/23/1946
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****** 1930 ****** Ch Harris' Chata De Chatsworth 09/22/1947
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****** Ch Rossmore's Naughty Knight CDX 05/13/1950
****** BISS Ch Rowdytown's Hardrock Cafe (in both Tai's and Sydney's peds) 09/02/1987
****** 06/14/1960
****** 8/29/1965
****** I loved this dog! 11/26/1972 Picture used with permission of Jodi Petiach of Sunbolt Am Staffs. Please obtain owner's permission before using. ****** 1/15/1974 *****
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