i have so many questions to ask and there's too much right now like you're talking about dog genetics and i'm so enthusiastic about dogs and i'm so enthusiastic about genetics so it's like a whole new realm of incredible knowledge i can learn and it's so exciting
wow

but like what is the deal with blue/red/noses and stuff what
i know blue pit bulls are really am staffs or something? or they're different

blue doesn't seem to pop up in game or ADBA type lines as much but game/ADBA/working breeding is not mutually exclusive to blue dilution, it's just not something that occurred much until people started intentionally breeding for it which did not happen much in game lines. this is because the undilute black is dominant to blue so of course both parents have to carry the dilute gene for blue pups to occur. in fact some people thought that all blue dogs must be mixed so they'd cull blue pups so people didn't think they had mutts or curs, from what i've heard.

then amstaffs (and of course later bullies) became a thing and lots of intentional blue breedings happened, but there are some amstaff lines with blue dogs which are no further removed from the pit than many ADBA lines. unfortunately breeding two phenotypical blue dogs can result in skin issues from the dilute gene, but the dilute gene has become so prevalent that it's difficult for AKC amstaff breeders who are well aware of the problem to find dogs that are not blue to breed to. this isn't as much of a problem in the UKC because red-nosed dogs are allowed so blue is not so outragiously overwhelming in the population even though the dogs are more or less exactly the same as AKC amstaffs for the most part.