Ditto Jack. If one listens closely to the Ed Crenshaw's interviews on the You Tube. Ed affirms that Carver did have a Tudor's Dibo x Black Widow bred dogs along with a Sister to Black Widow. If Project X had listen closely as well. Ed confirmed that Boudreaux's Blind Billy dog was bred as it's pedigree showed.

In this interview Mr. Ed Crenshaw mentions about the fact that Carver's Tudor's Dibo x Carver's Black Widow etc. dogs were late starters. That the way Carver was trying to get his future dogs off this line, to fire up at a earlier age. Was crossing Mr. Ed Crenshaw's blood line into his line. Which did work really well.

Whether the pedigrees show it or not there is a strong influence of the Ed Crenshaw bloodlines in the Carver strain of dogs. The Tudor Dibo x Carver's Black Widow along with the Blind Billy influence from Boudreaux was there also. I might add and just IMHO that maybe not a lot. But I feel there was some Peggy Harper AM Staff added along the way. Which went right back to the older Henry/Al Brown/Tudor dogs.

Said all this, so that those that have pedigrees showing a high 25% or more percentage of Tudor's Dibo X Siblings influence in that 14 generation pedigree search. Go slow and give these type bred dogs more patience and maturity before schooling. Jack's reference on schooling is a very good approach. Cheers