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Answer by CH
Submitted on 5/19/2004
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Rednose and Bluenose are just colors. Red is a recessive gene which many pit bulls carry even if they are a different color. The breeders in Ireland many years ago didn't interbreed their lines with anyone else's, and they often kept pedigrees secret and guarded them with their lives. When the gene pool is relatively small like that it tends to bring out recessive traits, i.e. Red. And as for blue, it is just a dilution of black. I'm not exactly sure how blues were originally bred, but most breeders I know will breed blues with blacks and take the blue dogs from that litter and breed back to blue, since breeding blue dogs to each other for too many generations can cause problems.

Answer by NOSUCHTHINGASRED
Submitted on 9/22/2004
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THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A RED NOSE PITBULL "RED" NOSE PITBULLS COME FROM BLUE NOSE PITBULLS ITS VERY LIKELY TO GET A "RED" NOSE OUT OF A BLUE ON BLUE BREEDING THESE "RED" NOSE ARE CALLED BLUEIS THE HAVE BLUE BLOOD ON THE ALL THE WAY JUST THAT THEIR NOSE ISNT BLUE "PINK" "RED" SAME THING EXEPT THAT THE "PINK" ISNT A FULL BLUEI ITS ALREADY BEEN CROSSED WITH A BLACK NOSE AND THE RED STANDS PURE BLUE NOW THE DIFFERENCE IS 1:AMERICAN STAFFORDSHIRES,2:AMERICAN PITBULL TERRIER,AND 3:STAFFORDSHIRE .ONE BEING THE BIGGEST OF THE BREED BEIN A BLUE OR BLACK NOSE VERY GENTLE BREED TWO BEIN A MEDIUM SIZE "RED" OR BLACK NOSE VERY AGRESSIVE AND THREE THE SMALLEST VERY GENTLE BEIN A BLACK NOSE ONLY. IVE BEEN ROUND PIBULLS FOR A LONG TIME AND I HAVE ALOT OF FRIENDS WHO FIGHT THEM TOO I DONT BELIVE ON THAT BUT THE TRAITS THEY LOOK FOR ARE SHORT THICK LEGS, LONG BODY , MEDIUM HEAD , MOST IMPORTANT HUGE JAWS AND A LONG SNOUT

Answer by where_do_you_find_these_people
Submitted on 10/2/2004
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First I would like to say I am sorry to the person whom asked the question. A lot of people who have "NO IDEA" what they are talking about gave answers to the question. The problem with the answers is that they failed to explain the two different worlds of the American Pitbull Terrier. There are the Show pits & the Game pits. There are some blue nose and some red nose dogs that fall into both categories. I would say that the blues are more prominent in the Show ring and the Reds are more common in the catch dog / weight pull arena (game dog). Of the two the most poorly bred are the blue pits. The reason I say that is because there are lots of people out there color breeding for blue because they want to make money. Most of these people have no business breeding pitbulls at all. There are some that do the same thing with the red nose dogs, only it is less common. I know this because we have a big problem with it in this area. People who know nothing about the blue dogs buy a male and a female and just breed them to make a litter so that they can sell them. They didn't know anything about the dogs when they bought them, and had breeding them in mind long before they even lost their puppy teeth. I could keep going on this subject, but I think you get the idea. You can find good dogs that are blue nose and you can find good dogs that are red nose. You take a much bigger chance of getting a piece of crap dog buy purchasing a blue. There are 3 things that you need to remember. (1st) Bigger isn't always better in the pitbull world (2nd)You will never pay less for a good dog than what he is worth (3rd) you can easily pay more than what a dog is worth when you buy from a breeder that does nothing with his dogs but breed them for money. I would never buy a dog bred solely for show. That isn't where the pitbull came from and when you buy a show dog you aren't buying a pitbull at all. You are just buying a muscle bound worthless piece of junk. Buy a dog from someone who breeds for catch and you come close to the original thing. A pitbull is just like a book "it doesn't matter what the cover looks like, because its whats on the inside that counts" I think this is more what you were looking for.

Answer by UNIQUE PITS
Submitted on 12/27/2004
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I'm not to sure about the rest of these people but I'm not talking out of my ass or what my ass thinks it knows. I have a Blue piball UKC reg. and I have two Red Noses UKC reg.. 1st of all its not called a Blue nose pit!! They dont have blue noses they are black. They are called blue pits because of their color not their nose. Who in the world said that red nose pits were for fighting and blues were for breeding. I would agree with you on the fact that reds would be better for fighting then blues but it dont matter what kind of pit it is for fighting. Blue pits are more expensive because they have higher and better bloodlines. A true Red Nose Pit will have all red toe nails and HAZEL GREEN (yellow) eyes, red paws, and a thick red color "around" the lips and they dont have to be the full red color may also have white in it. Blue Pits come out solid, solid with some white mostly on the chest and they also have what is called "PIBALL" which has the blue and white patched like a cow. If you mix a Blue and a Red you dont get a chocolate RETARD!!!! They come out mixed colors and the dont look as good as keeping the colors the same. If you want a PITBULL that you can take to dog shows and have a respectable bloodline then you want a BLUE PIT. If looking for that muscle bound cock disel dog thats good for hunting,fighting then you want a RED NOSE PIT. Blues get big but they dont have the muscle mass of a Red. Oh and to the other RETARD RED NOSE PITS DONT HAVE RED EYES.