The American Pit Bull Terrier

A detailed Summary of The American Pit Bull Terrier

"The American Pit Bull Terrier may well be a vanishing breed. Today, this loyal, courageous breed is facing a hostile media, an unforgiving court system, and potentially, its own death" (Palika 4). Liz Palika also states that "fighting traits have made the breed a favorite among people who encourage aggression in their dogs. This encouragement along with a lack of good training, poor socialization, and ignorant breeding practices have caused numerous disasters with Pit Bulls as central players" (4). Joe Stahlkuppe adds that a few American Pit Bull Terriers are uncontrollable and risky, the same as a few canines of other pedigrees are uncontrollable or risky (7). To say that the vast majority of American Pit Bull Terriers are out of control is certainly not true. There are many different factors that contribute to the bad reputation of the American Pit Bull Terrier; there are also many good qualities about this breed.

Ian Dunbar finds that historians have found evidence that draws APBTs back to early Greece (i). Fenstermacher adds that "writings that date back to the early 1100s speak of contests where bulls and bears were baited by dogs" (6). He also states that bull baiting was a sport i

"Dog Fighters have kept alive the image of the American Pit Bull Terrier as a savage killer. The breed-for-greed crowd that will mass-produce poor-quality APBTs and then sell them to unsuspecting and unprepared members of the public deserves a lot of this guilt" (Stahlkuppe7). Stahlkuppe argues that many terrible sins have been recognized as the doing of the APBT, many of which have been done by other kinds of dogs or by canines of assorted pedigree (6). "The American Pit Bull Terrier resulted from Bulldog and Terrier crosses (Fenstermacher7). Fenstermacher adds that dog owners are mating the APBT with any kind of dog, mating for personal violence, and making very unbalanced canines. They put up for sale these animals at low-cost, and without record documents (13). He also points out that " the pity is that they call these dogs 'Pit Bulls' and many think this is the same dog as the APBT" (Fenstermacher13). Another source adds that "with no knowledge of dog genetics or dog breeding they indiscriminately mated their dogs to larger and nastier dogs of any breed whatsoever. The result was mixed-bred dogs the punks still proudly, and defiantly called Pit Bulls" (O'Neil22). "It is estimated that there are now 500,000 unregistered, often poorly bred Pit Bull Terriers in the U.S." (Brand 60). O'Neil confirms that these canines, at this time assorted with Rottweilers, a range of Shepherds and additional nasty dogs, are not anymore American Pit Bull Terriers than baby dogs from a Golden Retriever / Poodle intersect are still Golden Retrievers (22). Stahlkuppe declares that additional kinds of dogs look like the American Pit Bull Terrier. From time to time these animals are responsible, or should be responsible, for awful events credited to Pit Bulls (6). "Boxers, American Bull dogs, Bull Terriers (the long-faced Spud Mc Kenzie party dogs), and Bull Dogs (the English sour mugs) have all been mistakenly branded as American Pit Bull Terriers at one time or another" (Stahlkuppe 6). Stahlkuppe asserts that still with all the awful exposure, the American Pit Bull Terrier is an extremely admired animal. With attractiveness approaches a crowd of unintelligent animal breeders who desire to obtain money from these dogs. Animals that by no means should have been reproduced, not even one time, are reproduced continually, in spite of poor nature, physical condition problems, or hereditary imperfections. Excessive reproducing of deficient canines will in the end harm every kind of dog (5).

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