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My APBT Max.

Most pics of dogs that went through my hands mate ended up with the dead chap spoken about on this topic !....and it wouldnt be right to show other peoples dogs but this is a dog im fairly close to on the continent a few years ago just before her first time out.

Had to say goodbye to me dog yesterday, had him out in the morning and he was fine ,running about and happy ,got home qnd ready for work and he got up and his belly all tucked up snd being sick and he started peeing blood so took him vet qnd it wasn't blout so had bloods done and belly scan and all come back clear so we don't even no why he like it ,vet said it was time to think about letting him go as he was in bad way , so me and the misses cuddled him while he slipped away, I sobbed like a baby lads ,he was never the best worker but to me he was that once in a lifetime dog because the bond

So many dogs were ruined in those early days as youngsters we all just thought they was machines im sure you will have read bits about this young lad we was literally rolling him out every other weekend from the minute he was on at 10 months !....its hard to admit but he wasnt far off " abused "....people said he stopped in his 4th which he did but the dog was shot to pieces before he was even fully mature.....hard one to accept and you live and learn but i hope he's had a whale of a time up there in bulldog heaven.

What a worthwhile post to a decent thread....do you feel better for getting that off your chest??? Strange f.ucker. Yokel

14 hr braised beef & ale pie, mash and gravy…

Ive personally seen and been told of ch bulldogs that were safe around other dogs and pups unless it was time to go to work.A pal had a little very well known bitch that could be loose with and walked out with other dogs as long as they behaved but hold her between your legs and she'd go into anything.Another good friend who I met when I was a kid in the 80s had a ch dog that he could put in the back of his car with his 3 british bulldogs and take him down the park and he wouldnt look at another dog unless he spotted his own kind

From the 1st to the last.... This was the last proper one I owned. Nearly 17 yrs ago now! Yokel

Id say its no coincidence that 2 of the top coursing men of the late 90s early 2000s were ex bulldog lads

Yes mate surname started with A.....he was from my neck of the woods he wasnt a conditioner as such a lot of his dogs were shaped up by the same person....but yes the paki was generally acknowledged as the best handler of competition bulldogs in the country.....your people were not blowing smoke up his arse at all he was the best in the game and the " man to beat " as such....i always describe him as a Steve Irwin type he just had an uncanny bond with dogs and an ability to get in a dogs mind he could literally talk a dog out of quitting anybody would tell you whether you love or loathe the sp

One of mine from a few years back.Real sensible bitch

I bet it hears um before it sees um

You say that but plenty of winning match dogs were not overly aggressive even during battle....as though they just knew their way around and had the intelligence to not waste energy one of the biggest matches of the time in the 90's in Holland was won by such a bitch,it was like she was doing the " Ali rope a dope " thing and just let the other bitch tire before turning it on towards the end some of them really were that smart they didnt need aggression.

I must have had a dud lol, kenneled with bitches, tolerated dogs, lived with a cat, went ferreting and broken to all livestock.

And my little vespa Streetracer pretty much finished

Although the type of keep would probably be different Id say that the type of man who can condition one breed for top level competion could more than likely turn his hand to conditioning another breed for a different sport.Also hes likely to be the type of manWhos willing to put the money,time and effort into turning his dogs out in top nick.

I always found them super smart,easily trained for obedience,.....jigsaw lived indoors permanently,never soiled the house,never touched yer dinner if you left the room,..same with the rest ,but when they got fired up you might as well have been singing opera the notice they took of ye.....their learning prowess is non ending,great dogs to have ....alone

My lads 17th today, went out for a bit of grub at a local Italian... we shared a T bone... was bloody handsome..

Escoveitch fish,Brown stew chicken,Rice n Peas tonight and Jerk wings for pack up tomorrow.

95m today

I remember putting some pictures on here years ago of a dog down in Cyprus off old dogs id had years prefiously he lived his life as pretty much a nomadic wanderer ?....he would spend weeks walking from village to village up around The Troodos mountains getting fed here and there coming into contact with various animals along the way he just had that aura of " i know who i am and ive nothing to prove ".....yet he was bred down off some of the most active bloodlines of the time.......the adaptability of these dogs really is amazing at times.

Again.....steroids themself dont create winners the person administering them does....you can just as easily ruin a dog with them.....without wanting to blow my own horn i was one of the first people to do dogs on shots through a keep years ago as i had a lot of knowledge of them and for those who's dogs i shaped up their records spoke for themself....the downside was it made a lot of the dogs infertile and so you dont get to reproduce exceptional dogs......but done properly you are just going to get more of everything mate thats just a given.

“Shared” a T bone … fukcing homosexual …

He was sired by Scotsmans Max mate.

There's a cannabis market on in Birmingham at the weekend, tinctures, edibles, oils, flower from a load of different vendors offering products from around the globe.

Ratchet and sibling......many years ago

Company insurance? He'll be learning to drive in a Hi-Lux lol. I did part of my learning in a LWB Landy, plenty of practice on 7 point turns ? Happy birthday Fin. ? Cheers, D.

I don’t know mate, I don’t know enough about them. A total know nothing like me on the subject would assume that is the case but maybe it isn’t ?……I know this much, some dogs know what their work is and what it isn’t so that could be the case with these ? Ill wait and see what somebody who has experience and knowledge says ? Maybe that’s you?….maybe it isn’t ? Lets see ? Edited to add: I suppose it’s like saying all man work dogs need to be manny ?…..but the reality is quiet the opposite

I don’t think a dog needs to be a raving lunatic around everything to be good at it’s job, I had a dog that was lovely to be around, would find a corner away from other dogs in company or the back of a car, wouldn’t show any aggression at all to people or other dogs……but he would break a fox in the little pieces in 30 seconds flat and was mad to get at them. Anyway, that’s lurchers and this is something else…..I think these dogs sound a much more sophisticated tool to own, train and work and I’m enjoying reading all these lads tales ?

get one 800 ebay xm 30 more then enough dc

Funny enuff just bought one a axion 2 XQ35, got delivered yesterday. On way to work this morning watched two of them funny fellows and a fox, also a couple of woodys and maggies roosting. I was surprised just how effective it was. Like you say opens up a lot more options for doing stuff. And not getting collared lol

Mate just emailed this pics of me taken 12 years ago think the bike was a ttr600

Had this bad boy to myself the other day

Legal is a state of mind, criminalise a plant?

My latest aquisition.Bit more of the sleeper look with this one

My wife’s little dog had been treated like a baby before we met so when it started copping the occasional kick up the arse from me it got the right hump. If I told it off, it would skulk off and go and piss on my pillow in the bedroom, never hers, just mine !…..I used to have to buy a new pillow every other week. I don’t believe for one minute that was an accident, it was just too precise and deliberate.

Yes, and I find it brilliant that it is still in us to be that way…..I don’t suppose many have thought too deeply about it but I’d like to think it’s an unspoken sense of what the monarchy represents rather than the person themselves. You look at it and say “that’s my England” (or Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom) I have been absolutely chuffed to see that British people with a sense of shared identity have come out in their droves…..that’s should give everyone hope that we ain’t all dead and done as we may sometimes believe. I have said before, I’m not sure

Another thing the same bulldog men brought to the coursing dogs.Selective breeding and line breeding

I dont know enough about the coursing world compared to bulldogs but id say its irrelevant....peaking a bulldog is just nothing like peaking a running dog it would be like comparing the way a boxer trains for a fight and a marathon runner trains for a race.....after i stopped keeping bulldogs years ago i had a couple of Greyhounds with a top trainer....more often than not it was him asking me the questions !.......im sure it helped in terms of very basic stuff as anyone had access to people like Fat Bills keeps but most of that was just basic common sense and very few people were messing with

Just seen a genuine German shepherd 1'st Cross, the guy said his brothers German shepherd tied with his pet greyhound, said the dog was very laid back till it saw a fox or cat.

I at one time got the shit kicked out of me from a llama ,it decided to protect the flock of sheep he was in with,it was bad enough trying to keep jigsaw away from the hairy cnut,but the llama was well up for a scrap too,my shins were skint to fuk,and my foot badly bruised from it stamping on me,..how I got myself into these situations,I can't understand even to this day..

Young bitch 6 month old.

Are there better more capable animals now than there was pre 90s? I think running dog fitness and nutrition progressed on its own accord in tandem with greyhound and whippet racing which all have their own obsessed and dedicated fanciers.

you take thermal with plr and you realise how shit they are with the colour light ? you can’t see most rabbits 30 yds off if it’s not for thermal even when you know they are there i thjnks that’s why most lads say they don’t have any rabbits ?

Weds. Evening. Cheers, D.