I have no facts in either direction. HC was good friends of Marlowe's and had some of those really early Red Boy dogs via her and Bass. When they started making those Jeep Red Boy crosses he always told us that was not Jeep at Katie's and he said later on he was glad for it. He always said his post-Homer dogs could bite much better.

Goes into the folk lore of the dogs. At this point it does not really matter.

EWO