I'm not a fan of Pit Bulls but....

[Scotch]

Another bad owner doing the breed a disservice. That's not hunting.

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I'll keep it general as to not overly offend anyone..  However, the world would be a much better place without pitbulls...

sorry but this is so wrong

[TinmanX]

Looked like American Pit Bulls to me but then American Pit Bulls and America Staffs are so closely related as to be almost indistinguishable from each other.

My dog of 10 years is an English Staff which came to the US with me from England. I wouldn't be without her and it's breaking my heart knowing she's reaching the end of her days. I got her as a 4 year old from a rescue center. She spent the first four years of her life locked in a garage living off vermin and whatever else she could catch, being beaten regularly. She's spent the last 8 years of her life living in the Oregon countryside with acres to roam through. She is the boss here at home. She tells us when she thinks we should go to bed and drags her own bed to the space between the doors to the kids rooms....

I digress.

[Shuffler]

A single dog will most likely be killed by a wild pig. Always hunt 2 or more dogs for pigs.


Pits make lousy hunting dogs.

[eagl]

I kept hoping the dogs would get killed or drowned, the whole video.  That's a pretty cruel way to kill a hog and I'd shoot those dogs on sight if they ever got on my property.  I've got kids and no hunting dog gets even a first chance, let alone a second chance, to be around my kids.

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Pits make lousy hunting dogs.

 

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I heard somewhere a long time ago that American pitBulls were breed just for wild boar hunting. I was told they grab the boars by the snoat and if they were killed in the process, they're jaws would lock and tire the boar out so the hunters could catch up with it. This was in Florida IIRC.
Then I seen this video and wondered about it again. Anyone else ever heard of this?

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I heard somewhere a long time ago that American pitBulls were breed just for wild boar hunting. I was told they grab the boars by the snoat and if they were killed in the process, they're jaws would lock and tire the boar out so the hunters could catch up with it. This was in Florida IIRC.
Then I seen this video and wondered about it again. Anyone else ever heard of this?

untrue....first pittbulls jaws don't lock...second The American Pittbull Terrier (APBT) was breed for fighting dogs.

but the dogs today have been so far breed from the original APBT they are no longer pittbulls.

it is very rare to find a true APBT.

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Well that just goes to show what I know about those dogs...absolutely nothing I'm a German Shepherd guy myself. 

[Slash27]

what? those two at the end weren't pits?

They sure looked like Dogo Argentino's to me.

I kept hoping the dogs would get killed or drowned, the whole video.  That's a pretty cruel way to kill a hog and I'd shoot those dogs on sight if they ever got on my property.  I've got kids and no hunting dog gets even a first chance, let alone a second chance, to be around my kids.

wtf?

[sunfan1121]

Yup those were Dogos not pits. They use the hound dogs to find the Boar, then unleash the Dogos. In Argentina where these dogs come from, the Dogos hold the Boar down while the hunter slits the pigs throat with a knife.

And no, a pitbull is not your first choice for a hunting dog. Pits are a jack of all dog trades , but a master of none. They have a lot of whippet mixed in, so if anything they make good sight hounds, not what you're looking for in a boar hunt.

[Slash27]

I want two!

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Yup those were Dogos not pits. They use the hound dogs to find the Boar, then unleash the Dogos. In Argentina where these dogs come from, the Dogos hold the Boar down while the hunter slits the pigs throat with a knife.

And no, a pitbull is not your first choice for a hunting dog. Pits are a jack of all dog trades , but a master of none. They have a lot of whippet mixed in, so if anything they make good sight hounds, not what you're looking for in a boar hunt.

pittbull has no whippet in its blood line.

[sunfan1121]

pittbull has no whippet in its blood line.

Terriers were bred down from whippets. 

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Terriers were bred down from whippets.  

all terriers?

the English white terrier? which was the breed that was used with the original English bulldog that made the  "half and half" and that's the dog our Pittbulls come from.....

so I highly doubt any whippet blood was left in the line, even if that was the case.



ehh I remembered wrong the English white terrier was used to make the Bull terrier.....

the terrier to make the Half an half is unknown.


hmm cant find anything about whippets being used to make terriers...honestly I have never heard that I wouldn't believe it.