Looking for reg. Male gamebred dog weighing from 25 to 30 pounds

[CYJ]

Ditto Foxman. One of the best breeding's I made was off Mayfield's Snake dog and my Young's Tina bitch. Tina was basically a Coplin/ Heinzl bloodline off his earlier dogs. Lot of Colby blood in them off Colby's Rifle and Colby's Dime. Some were pied colored like the Colby dogs and some red, black. and brindle. One male came black that I gave to Mr. Coplin, he named this pup Carolina Kid. V. Jackson campaigned all those dogs we had and did well with them.

These too were small dogs with athletic bodies and what I called those big Tudor heads. I reckon from the Tudor Dibo and his siblings that Heinzl used. Another feature these little dogs had was some really big teeth for their size and were hard pressure biters to boot.

By the time I started searching for some straight Lightner bred dogs of the latter strain, that was not the red nose variety. It was pretty well gone or any dogs living were pretty old. A dog man from N.C. and later living in Charleston S.C. named Scotty Todd. We were both in a race to find any existing Lightner dogs in S.C. or N.C. Since Loposay/Pete Sparks/ and Mr. Atlas Lamm had had some at one time.

Mr. Egan Skinner had lost all of his Lightner strain that had been crossed with the Cotton's Bullet dog. In my searching with the help of Sonny Shropshire. I got to meet Tar Heel Matt/ Joe Beal and some other N.C. dog men. I do not know if Matt is a member on here. But if I remember correctly he had a male Lightner bred dog, but was to old to breed to. If he read this post could add some good info.

Scotty Todd did find a little brindle lightner bred bitch or as much as could be got, named Mousy. Tar Heel Matt may have helped him in finding that bitch. Mousy was a small lappy eared brindle bitch. Mousy was bred and did produce a litter of pups off my Creel-Carver Chuck dog. When a dog man by the name of Williams from Charleston S.C. owned Chuck. I wanted to buy one of those dogs. Was kept top secret and do not know if Scotty took any back to N.C. with him. He later quit the dog game and became a Minister of a local church where he lived. Cheers