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  1. neil cooney
    That's the man and a friend had a black bitch off him in the last few years that was a cracker. God bless him.
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    Was Jimmy the man who used to keep Sealyhams ? R.I.P. and condolences to his family.
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    Why don't professional boxers have sex before a fight ? Because they don't like each other.
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    lol... im wrong... ok... sorry! That's alright, you weren't to know.
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    I disagree with your last sentence Dead Eyes, to a bulldog fancier a pound of breeding is worth a ton of feeding. Even in the terrier game those who take breeding seriously always seem to be the same men who constantly have good 'uns, it's not a coincidence.
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    Looks, looks ,looks, looks ,looks and looks is all I hear from you. Looks has nothing at all to do if a working type animal is pure or not.
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    Wrong Stop End, the video is a Kennel Club made film on how it was back then. Back then there wasn't enough folk with television etc. to spread trials etc. to the common man. It's a modern thing where idiots put up photos on web sites and public media of lurchers drawing etc.
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    JMHO but I would think that that type of dog actually improved after the 20s. Naturally I'm talking about strongdogs, not Kerry Blues, they went down hill.
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    In the second series of Alone there's a few who, if injury allows, I can see spending months and months out there. Some of them seem to be coping brilliantly.
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    Whether it's legal or not or helps trapping or not I'd question the proficiency of a trapper who takes the trouble to take pictures first and dispatches secondly. I've no problem with it done the other way around.
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    It's a great question and one that I'd say is rarely asked nowadays. Years ago just as you'd see an add for a coursing dog "parents kill 3 outta 3" you used to see adds for collie pups "will turn cow with calf."
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    It's also well written in several interviews over the years that a lot of the old timers, the men who made the Pit Bull what it is today, never liked the word "terrier" being in the name of their breed as they too felt that there was no terrier blood in the breed. Hence the reason most of them called them Pit Bulls or Bulldogs. That's the last I'll say on the subject because like most things in the game it's a matter of opinion, even though I know I'm right, LOL. .
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    Definitely Border Lakeland, .
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    Of course it's as pure as any dog breed out there because all breeds are a mixture of different dogs somewhere down the line. If there's no Terrier blood in there then why is there so many historical articles and writings stating otherwise? I don't buy the opinion that Terrier blood was added just to downsize the dogs for the pits, there must have been a benefit to their fighting ability when these crosses were made. You don't cross a Racehorse with a Donkey to make it faster. The EBT is nothing but a showdog but like I said, it's ancestor's were likely Pit dogs of the past, the same with the
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    The American Pit Bull Terrier is very much a breed. Forget about colour and ear carriage and all that other nonsense. That's conformation and has nothing to do with a pedigree of a dog bred to do a job. The APBT aka The Bulldog is as pure bred as dogs come and tracing their ancestor's is not hard and in all the pedigrees going back to the late 1800s I have never ever seen an outcross to a terrier. How much farther do you need to go back. Think about it, breeding small dogs to go under ground has been around for less than 300 years but the need for large powerful fighting types has been aroun
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    I agree about the black terriers being over bred. It's the same with the white Cork dogs at the minute. Same as any line or type in that they'd be safer in the hands of a few good lads instead of in the hands of many fools.
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    LOL.
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    There's no smoke without fire, IMO there's definitely Terrier in there. You'd have to be blind not to see it, of course certain strains that went over the pond had more Terrier blood in them whereas others had more Bulldog blood in them. Maybe the old Terriers added more than just speed and agility, gameness could have been a nice trait of theirs just like the Bulldog. "You'd have to blind not to see it." If you mean that by having 4 legs, a tail and a head they resemble a terrier then I agree but IMO that's where the similarity ends. There's bull blood in most terriers if you go back f
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    Sounds to me like you've been looking at some shite black terriers.
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    If a terrier is white (doesn't matter what colour it's parents were) then it's a Jack Russell. if it's typey and rough coated then it's either a Lakeland or a Russell depending on the show you're at. If it's a black and Tan then it's a Lakeland unless of course it's a Fell. If it's black and smooth then it's a Patterdale but if it's brother is rough coated then he's a black fell. But then again he might be a black Lakeland. But he might be white with black marking which means the show world is your oyster because he could be a russell, a white lakey or a patterdale which throws up white ter
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    IMO the APBT is as close to the original bulldog as you can get. That's Bulldog, not Bull and Terrier. There's no terrier blood in the APBT.
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    The English Bull Terriers ancestors were not working game dogs. He was bred for looks , nothing more, nothing less so when a game one crops up IMO that's a bonus not a dog who's doing his ancestors proud, which IMO is something every working dog should do. Of course they were, go look at early pics of Pitbulls and you'll see dogs that resemble the Bull Terrier, hell even today they pop up. The Bull Terriers baseline is the Bull and Terrier AKA the APBT crossed with the English White Terrier. It was bred for looks but it's of no surprise that the odd one still has a little fire inside.
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    The English Bull Terriers ancestors were not working game dogs. He was bred for looks , nothing more, nothing less so when a game one crops up IMO that's a bonus not a dog who's doing his ancestors proud, which IMO is something every working dog should do.
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    12 kilo's is roughly 25 lbs. She has a lot of growing to do and 25 lbs is a big bitch, by anyones standards.
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