Aretha is a daughter of ChHD-ACh Conch's Rowdy Boy. Her pedigree also boasts of HD-ACH Blair's Diamond Cutter, QuadGrCHofCH Keating's Sirenia, ChofSHCh Conch's Bodie, QuintGRCHofCH Oak Run's Cayo Conch, ChHD-ACh Blair's Dugger Bottom Bubba, and TriGRCHofCH Snickers. She has a PennHIP diffraction index of .35/.31 which places her above the 90th percentile of catahoulas tested. She has also been BAER and CERF tested with no abnormalities for either test.