Irish Staffs

[shaaark 10,109]

 

Is it not a staff bred in ireland. Would make sense.

what like an english german sheppard or a scottish german shorthaired pointer.?

 

Was just about to say that lol. Same could be said for most breeds of dog, bred in this country for generations, but originating in a completely different country lol, but the german shepherd analogy is the one that first came to mind

[neil cooney 10,415]

 

Up 'till a few years ago fanciers called their dogs by the line they came from and they were quiet local. Dublin had the Dublin Reds and Cork had the Geronimo dogs etc. etc. and that how dogs were described.

But less than 20 years ago a spate of books like Barkers etc. started calling them Irish Staffs and the puppy peddlers jumped on board. Some of these peddlers were around during the 80s when the trials were serious competition but these lads were no where to be seen.

But a few years down the road these lads were all the rave with their game dogs.

And the English bought the story of the Irish staff big time and the funny thing was that there was probably better staffs in England and Scotland but these boys kept their heads down and just got on with it.

Do ye know if many of them red dogs still about?

 

How many do you want, LOL.

I haven't had a strongdog for about 10 years (still love them though) and am away from them but I would think there's plenty of dogs with Dublin Red or Diddy Coy blood in them.

The man behind the Dublin Red dogs, Tony L, once told me that it was other lads who started calling them Dublin Reds whereas Tony used to register his dogs under the Diddy Coy prefix.

I was always told that most dogs in Dublin were red in the 70s and 80s until Tony got Psycho up from Cork for Ricky B. As you know Psycho was mostly white and Ricky made the dog and white dogs became common in Dublin.

Ricky sold Psycho to Northford kennels in Northern Ireland and soon the North had plenty of white dogs. It's probably the most predominant colour now in the breed.

[Francine Graham 4]

On 06/07/2015 at 00:17, undertaker said:

The lad that owned physco was on this awhile back

you will find most of the physco line is gone pitbulls took over