"There is no such thing as an Alapaha, Lana made it up after an accidental breeding with her dog and a neighbor's Catahoula." John Conner
This site lays it all out pretty clearly and easy to understand. It does require the ability to think for yourself though.
https://abbbtruth.weebly.com/
Everybody wants to know about Lana and the Alapaha. It is not my intent to talk bad about anyone or their dogs, but y'all want the straight-up so here it is...
The first time I met Lana she had a lil White English pup running around her back door. She told me she got it down in Tifton, Georgia from a friend and was going to breed it with hers and turn it into an Alapaha. Well that's all fine and good but I told her I had better WE pups than that and maybe she might want to breed to my dogs if she was looking for an outcross. So that's what we did.
I had an ol bulldog, "Ike", who's bloodline had been in my family since before I was born, I and took him to Lana and told her to do what she wanted with him. Now she had 3 males that caught my eye; Van Shelton, that stayed in a run by the house; his sire, Marble, and Max that I thought was the best looking. I bred to all three of them, first to one and then to another and lastly to Marble. Marble was not really an eye catcher but as Iearned, actually produced bulldogs when bred to a good one. The best one out of all the crosses was Cotton, a son of Marble out of the gamest bitch I ever owned, Lily. I could write another story about her but lets just say she was a good one.
After one or two trips to the show ring it became obvious that Cotton wasn't going to be a champion so I gave him to a friend to catch hogs. He wasn't good, he was great. You know what they say, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then. Well after all those breedings you would think there would be one that was worth his keep. A fellow told me one time that everybody has good dogs but he wanted a great dog and I just wasn't getting great with these Alapahas. That's when I found Major and we started producing real bulldogs.
Back to Lana and her Alapahas. I know Lana sold the story that these were the original bulldogs of the southern piney woods...BULLSHIT! Me, Lana or no one else for that matter had ever heard of an Alapaha until she made up that story that everyone swallowed hook, line and sinker. If you ever saw the pictures of her old dogs, they were White English! Her dad and uncles all had White English and her mother raised pitbulls.
In Lana's brochure there is a picture of Roseanna, Marcelle's mama. Anybody who has bred half as many dogs as I have knows that is a picture of a half bulldog and half pit. Roseanna came in season and trotted off down the road to a fellow's house that raised Catahoulas and came home and gave birth to the prettiest blue puppy you ever saw...Marcelle. Well, she found her some big boned White English out of south Alabama to breed to him. She also used White English from me, my daddy and Mr. Arnold and that is where the Alapaha came from. This was local White English blood that went back 70 years or so at that time, this was Carr blood, a line developed by Jake Carr Sr. who used White English as his foundation from local barber Dewey Horne who’s family had bred and maintained their own bloodline of WE that is proven to at least 1893.
Well, crossing bulldogs with curs is like mixing oil and water. You're going to get one or the other but it aint going to mix. Wasn't long before she had all her kennels full cause she wouldn't ship a dog and if you don't socialize a dog in the first 8-12 week period you might as well throw him away cause they are ruined. Thats when she met a man that came to get a pup. He worked at the Atlanta airport and they worked out a deal for him to socialize the pups and get them use to the airport noises so they could be shipped with a little more success.
He had an associate that also worked for the airline and could fly and ship dogs for free. So as Lana and her trainer got deeper into bed, so to speak, some of these pups started flying to the trainer's associate. I don't want to get into trouble for liable so Im prefacing this as a fictional story as Lana told it. You see, Lana never once went down to the kennels, her mother and the kennel hand took care of the dogs, so she didn't know what she had.
As her trainer got deeper in bed, so to speak, he started coming down and getting whole litters as soon as they were ready. Im sure he just got over loaded in pups as Lana had kennels for probably 100 dogs. So like any good breeder you just got to man up and cull through a litter. The trainer would call Lana and tell her this one is good, this one is a cull and she'd okay it. Like I said, she had no idea what she had. During all of this it wasn't hard for a pick pup here and there to slip through and get shipped off to his associate in California. Pretty soon, his associate has a yard full of foundation breed stock, but without the proper paper work, so the associate formed a new registry. No need to go any further with this cause 'it's all made up bullshit anyway'. Wink.
I am THE ONLY breeding partner Lana EVER claimed. I had access to every dog on her yard, none of which I wasted any feed on. Gave every one of them away and went on breeding on my holy grail...Major, Khan and HEDDENS CWE Lady. If the Alapaha was a real bulldog there'd be no need for a fairy tale to sell em.
John Conner - Amen!
This site lays it all out pretty clearly and easy to understand. It does require the ability to think for yourself though.
https://abbbtruth.weebly.com/
Everybody wants to know about Lana and the Alapaha. It is not my intent to talk bad about anyone or their dogs, but y'all want the straight-up so here it is...
The first time I met Lana she had a lil White English pup running around her back door. She told me she got it down in Tifton, Georgia from a friend and was going to breed it with hers and turn it into an Alapaha. Well that's all fine and good but I told her I had better WE pups than that and maybe she might want to breed to my dogs if she was looking for an outcross. So that's what we did.
I had an ol bulldog, "Ike", who's bloodline had been in my family since before I was born, I and took him to Lana and told her to do what she wanted with him. Now she had 3 males that caught my eye; Van Shelton, that stayed in a run by the house; his sire, Marble, and Max that I thought was the best looking. I bred to all three of them, first to one and then to another and lastly to Marble. Marble was not really an eye catcher but as Iearned, actually produced bulldogs when bred to a good one. The best one out of all the crosses was Cotton, a son of Marble out of the gamest bitch I ever owned, Lily. I could write another story about her but lets just say she was a good one.
After one or two trips to the show ring it became obvious that Cotton wasn't going to be a champion so I gave him to a friend to catch hogs. He wasn't good, he was great. You know what they say, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then. Well after all those breedings you would think there would be one that was worth his keep. A fellow told me one time that everybody has good dogs but he wanted a great dog and I just wasn't getting great with these Alapahas. That's when I found Major and we started producing real bulldogs.
Back to Lana and her Alapahas. I know Lana sold the story that these were the original bulldogs of the southern piney woods...BULLSHIT! Me, Lana or no one else for that matter had ever heard of an Alapaha until she made up that story that everyone swallowed hook, line and sinker. If you ever saw the pictures of her old dogs, they were White English! Her dad and uncles all had White English and her mother raised pitbulls.
In Lana's brochure there is a picture of Roseanna, Marcelle's mama. Anybody who has bred half as many dogs as I have knows that is a picture of a half bulldog and half pit. Roseanna came in season and trotted off down the road to a fellow's house that raised Catahoulas and came home and gave birth to the prettiest blue puppy you ever saw...Marcelle. Well, she found her some big boned White English out of south Alabama to breed to him. She also used White English from me, my daddy and Mr. Arnold and that is where the Alapaha came from. This was local White English blood that went back 70 years or so at that time, this was Carr blood, a line developed by Jake Carr Sr. who used White English as his foundation from local barber Dewey Horne who’s family had bred and maintained their own bloodline of WE that is proven to at least 1893.
Well, crossing bulldogs with curs is like mixing oil and water. You're going to get one or the other but it aint going to mix. Wasn't long before she had all her kennels full cause she wouldn't ship a dog and if you don't socialize a dog in the first 8-12 week period you might as well throw him away cause they are ruined. Thats when she met a man that came to get a pup. He worked at the Atlanta airport and they worked out a deal for him to socialize the pups and get them use to the airport noises so they could be shipped with a little more success.
He had an associate that also worked for the airline and could fly and ship dogs for free. So as Lana and her trainer got deeper into bed, so to speak, some of these pups started flying to the trainer's associate. I don't want to get into trouble for liable so Im prefacing this as a fictional story as Lana told it. You see, Lana never once went down to the kennels, her mother and the kennel hand took care of the dogs, so she didn't know what she had.
As her trainer got deeper in bed, so to speak, he started coming down and getting whole litters as soon as they were ready. Im sure he just got over loaded in pups as Lana had kennels for probably 100 dogs. So like any good breeder you just got to man up and cull through a litter. The trainer would call Lana and tell her this one is good, this one is a cull and she'd okay it. Like I said, she had no idea what she had. During all of this it wasn't hard for a pick pup here and there to slip through and get shipped off to his associate in California. Pretty soon, his associate has a yard full of foundation breed stock, but without the proper paper work, so the associate formed a new registry. No need to go any further with this cause 'it's all made up bullshit anyway'. Wink.
I am THE ONLY breeding partner Lana EVER claimed. I had access to every dog on her yard, none of which I wasted any feed on. Gave every one of them away and went on breeding on my holy grail...Major, Khan and HEDDENS CWE Lady. If the Alapaha was a real bulldog there'd be no need for a fairy tale to sell em.
John Conner - Amen!