Ok, Don't laugh.. As many of you may know, the original Rin-Tin-Tin was a sable. Does anyone have any credible info on his actual pedigree.?....

.....All I have come up with on Google was that Rin Tin Tin was a dog that was brought to America after World War I by a soldier named Larry Baker. In Germany, the dog was used as a military dog during each of the wars.

How can it be possible for anyone to have his pedigree if he was brought over after being rescued, or captured, or found, or however your version of the story goes??

The original Rin Tin Tin was a mere puppy of a few days old when Corporal Lee Duncan insisted that his battalion in Lorraine, France check out a bombed war dog kennel during World War I. What he found on that fateful day of September 15, 1918 was a mother German Shepherd Dog and her litter, the only survivors of the bomb dropped. Betty had five puppies.

Duncan chose two of the puppies, a male and a female, and members of the battalion took the mother and remainder back to their camp.

Ironically, the only survivors over the next few months were the two pups Duncan had claimed. He named the pups after tiny French puppets the children gave to the American soldiers for good luck. The male was named Rin Tin Tin and the female Nannette.

Duncan worked with the dogs training them to perform as he had seen the German war dogs perform during the war. He was wildly impressed with the breed’s ability and wanted to learn more. He discovered that the German kennel master had been captured by the Americans and went so far as to visit him in the prison camp, all to learn more about the German Shepherd Dog.

When the war was over Duncan made special arrangements to take his two pups back to the United States with him to his home in Los Angeles.

He and the pups were allowed aboard a ship that transported them to New York on a 15-day journey.

During the trip Nannette became ill with distemper and by the time Duncan arrived in New York she was quite ill.