An interesting vid about stupid dog owners,first there were no pitbulls involved,the 2 yellow dogs are black mouthcurs,the grey/blue dog is a cross with maybe some pit in it and as has been mentioned the 2 white dogs at the end were dogo's.
The owners didnt give the dogs flack jackets and are just asking to loose a good dog to a bleedout.
I realize feral pigs are a huge problem but do they really need to be hunted like that? A quick kill will rid the problem without causing undo stress to both the dogs and the hogs.
In Argentina where the dogos come from it's tradition to hunt boar in this manner and the hunter goes in and kills the hog with his knife as the dogs hold it but thats a traditional type thing and isnt the norm.
It burns me when people call any dog a pit because it's big and has a large head....
Most wouldnt know a well bred pitbull from a poodle but then attacks by poodles wouldnt make headlines.
Ink, way back when they used whippets in the bull and terriers,they used lakelands,airedales and softcoated wheatons too. There was no standard that the "breed" followed so any "game" dog was used amd mixed into the lines. It wasnt until the 1930 or so that we see the developement of the dogs we call pitbulls today. And even then there were several distinct types,bullterriers,american staffs and english staffs and amoung these we have several subtypes.
Most dont know but these dogs can in all sizes and fought at different weight classes. There were dogs in the 5 to 9 lb range and dogs in the 40 to 50 pound range,once the dogs get much larger than 50 or 60 pounds they become too lumbering and slow and were often dispatched by much lighter and smaller dogs.
The only time you saw the large dogs was if it was a bull or bear baiting event,they even used the smaller 40 to 50 lb dogs against caged lions and tigers. You can read adds from the London times in the 1800's for matches and challenges,1 that stands out to me is the add for Slugo,it went like this.."Slugo standing at challenge,willing to take on man or beast 50 to 500lbs,fee a 5000pound note!
Yes the fought at the Westminister pits,often against baboons or "little" people,once the blood sport was outlawed they turned to dogfighting and ratting and this started the trend to the smaller dogs. A typical"fighter stood 16 inches at the shoulder and weighed 40 pounds,these were found to be all but unbeatable as many of the older "bulldog" types were dispatched by these smaller gamebred types.
So yes you can find whippet blood in some lines,old school bluepauls were said to have the greyhound blood{whippet} to develope the tilted pelvis that allowed them to turn inside their body length,if you've ever seen a pit turn circles you know just what I mean.
There are no bad pitbulls just plenty of stupid owners,btw I dont own a pit,I raise English Staffordshire Bullterriers and for 20 years I bred and showed English Bullterriers so that gives me about 30 years raising these dogs.
