Quote Originally Posted by evolutionkennels
The Tonka Bear blood in my opinion is some of the gamest Bolio-Tombstone blood to be found. They are RETARDEDLY high strung. I have always LOVED the Hollingsworth line, The Gr.Ch.Buck line, and have tremendous respect for what Jack has brought about with the Ch.Hammer-Hollingsworth cross. To some extent, that's why I bought Artemis. However, the best results as it pertains to Athleticism, Straightforwardness, mouth, and ability that I've ever achieved in a breeding with Machobuck came when I bred Machobuck to Saphire. I believe that has a lot to do with the quarter Tonka Bear blood on her bottom side. Obviously, the Baracuda blood on top is nice. I've just never had the offspring of Machobuck get so GEEKED as they did with the Saphire breeding. The exception is the breeding that made Sharapova. She is a racehorse and a screamer once she gets going. However, it's a different level of control. Sharapova will ignore any other dog while you walk her. She's incredibly intelligent. When she sees 4 walls though.. you can't hold her. Machobear and Machabear don't have that level of control. They are maniacs all day long that I have to feed 3x what the others eat. They go nuts at a frog, an earthworm, and yes.. even a Spider weaving a web on the tree. I think this is what the Tonka Bear blood brings to the table. The retardedly high strung athletes. I don't know if anyone carries the Tonka Bear blood pure. The last one I knew of was CENTER'S ROLL BACK. Sctotty bought him and he ended up dying in an accident last year. If anyone knows of someone who has it pure, with no Chinaman or Snooty out through Croc, then let me know. I wouldnt mind getting some to cross it with a Hollingsworth specimen then to my Buck stuff.


EK
It's interesting that you mentioned Hollingsworth... I've always wanted to do a Lady In Red-Tonkabear breedings going back to when Speedi was still around. I bred Speedi who is double Tonkabear to RTK's Crash who is double Lady In Red but it didn't take. I eventually had success when I bred Nasty to Crash with good results... But an Otter-Hollingsworth breeding could have happened way before that. Otter told me E Hollingsworth visited him back then... Imagine Tonkabear or Indian Moon bred to Lady in Red or Dolly. Here's my version of an Otter-Hollingsworth cross: http://www.apbt.online-pedigrees.com/mo ... _id=104899

Yeah I agree with you on the craziness of some of the Tonkabear dogs. Geek was the most mellow dog I've ever owned. I mean you would think he was on meds or something. But if he would see, hear or smell another dog he would go completely nuts. He would go from 0 to 10 in a heart beat. And Speedi was so damn hyper I could NOT leave her on the chain 24/7. No matter how much I fed her she would be several pounds under her conditioned weight. I ended up keeping her in the house because she never kept enough weight to stay outside in the winter.

I'm sure there's some pure Tonkabear blood out there somewhere. But those that have it don't always want to share it and you can't really blame them. I used to be that way...