Magazine - African Pit Bull Registry

APBR
Magazine
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April
2016
THE APBT IN
MOZAMBIQUE
HOW TO READ A
PEDIGREE?
EASY!
Interview with Gary
J. Hammonds
GR CH GRITLER &
SEADENSUN
April
2016
IN THIS ISSUE
How to read a pedigree
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Parvovirus
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Local is Lekker
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Little bit of Botswana
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Interview with Gary Hammonds
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From Mozambique
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Enduro Pits
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Seadensun
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Art of the Month
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History
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Editors Letter
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How to Read
a Pedigree
“Puppies For Sale” the number one heading that demands the most “Ped” requests on social media and
in all aspects of a breeding , but how many of us really know how to read a dog’s pedigree. Well let me
enlighten you on a few basic steps and a run through
on genetics to ensure you know what you are looking
at. Everything in the dogs online pedigree is based on
a mathematical calculation however that same calculations has no relationship with what the actual dog
does, how it behaves and what traits and characteristics it might possibly inherit.
So what’s the difference between the two?
Traits are genetically inherited qualities, something
that cannot be changed by a third party attribute. But
can be manipulated.
Characteristics are physical and behavioral attributes
that the APBT has formed associations with in its surroundings and correlate them with human behavior.
Both of the above mentioned definitions are subject
to vary in the individual dog, one being the Genotype
(Traits) and one being a part of the Phenotype (characteristics). Each playing a vital role in the genetic make-
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up of the APBT.
So where do you start.
Figure out what u like and want in an APBT, all bloodlines carries different behaviors and temperament, so
be meticulous when making a selection. Some old
dogmen were known to select purely on the look of
the pups to determine if it would perform the same as
their parents, every selection method varies from person to person.
Breeding Probability
Every Mating is a Gamble, a gamble that comes with
no control, but you as a breeder should have the ability to increase your chances of producing better dogs
by selection processes that determines which APBT
would be used for breeding.
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How do I calculate Probability when looking at a Pedigree?
Each Generation carries a Percentage of Possible Genetic Contribution (PGC) to the APBT.
First Generation
Second Generation Third Generation Forth Generation Fifth Generation So on we go.
= 50%
= 25 %
= 12.5
= 6.25
=3.12
Scenario: A breeder sells you a pup, in the pedigree u
see Gr Ch Grittler 5xw in the 1st Generation and u see
him in the 3rd Generation as well.
First thing that comes to mind is that it’s a double bred
Grittler Dog but how much is the PGC (Possible Genetic Contribution) to this pup that u have just purchased.
1st Gen = 50 %
3rd Gen = 12.5%
Total PGC = 62.5%
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Gr Ch 7xw Sir Thomas Percentage Calculations
In the above Snipping Gr Ch Sir Thomas is seen
Twice in the second generation.
As we know 2nd Gen carries 25% PGC per appearance.
25% x 2 = 50% PGC
Each individual APBT carries a weight of 100% PGC to
each mating.
Once this individual is decked over a Male or Bitch the
dogs PGC splits in half.
Eg. 2nd Generation Readings.
Yellow = 100 x Hollingsworth Dolly = 100
Has created a litter of pups that carries 50% PGC inheritance from each parent.
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Why Probable?
This is not set in stone it is just a 50% chance that certain individuals would possess the same quality as the
father or mother or both or none. Some individuals
have a fall back in the gene pool and a dog from that
litter could possess the same attributes as a dog with
just 1% PGC in the pedigree.
In conclusion, every single mating ever done has no
guarantee, some gene pools don’t work well together
and some does. A mating is all a gamble it is up to us
the “ Human Control “ to test the dogs extensively and
only hold on to the best of the best and accompany it
with high standards to increase the probability of producing outstanding APBT, instead of just a few mediocre pups . Now don’t get me wrong every litter has its
culls but increasing your chances by testing them and
selecting the best for a mating will then in turn have
less cull numbers in the litter and more quality dogs.
Article by: DVK
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Canine
Parvovirus
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Canine parvovirus is an
acute, highly contagious
disease of dogs that was
first described in the early
1970s. The virus has a tendency to attack rapidly
reproducing cells, such as
those lining the gastrointestinal tract.
Highly
Contaious
Disease
as well as on contaminated crates, shoes, and other objects. When the dog
licks the fecal material off
hair, feet, or anything that
came in contact with infected feces, he/she acquires the disease.
The virus is shed in large
amounts in the stools of
acutely infected dogs for
up to several weeks following infection. The disease is transmitted by oral
contact with infected feces. Parvo can be carried
on the dog’s hair and feet, Parvo affects dogs of all
ages, but most cases occur in puppies 6 to 20
weeks of age. Doberman
Pinschers and Rottweiler’s
appear to acquire the infection more readily and
experience more severe
symptoms. The reason for
lower resistance in these
breeds is unknown.
Following an incubation
period that averages four
to five days, the acute illness begins with depression,
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vomiting, and diarrhea. Some dog have no fever, while
others have high fever (up to 106°F, 41.1°C). Pups with
severe abdominal pain exhibit a tucked-up abdomen.
Diarrhea is profuse and contains mucus and/or blood.
Dehydration develops rapidly.
Heart muscle involvement in neonatal puppies used
to be common, but is now quite rare. This is because
routine vaccination of brood bitches two to four weeks
before breeding boosts maternal antibody levels and
provides better protection for puppies.
Suspect parvo in all pups with the abrupt onset of vomiting and diarrhea. The most efficient way to diagnose
parvo is to identify either the virus or virus antigens
in stools. An in-office blood serum test (ELISA) is available for rapid veterinary diagnosis. False negatives do
occur. Virus isolation techniques are more precise, but
require an outside laboratory.
Treatment: Dogs with this disease require intensive
veterinary management. In all but the most mild cases,
hospitalization is essential to correct dehydration and
electrolyte imbalances. Intravenous fluids and medications to control vomiting and diarrhea are often required. More severe cases may require blood plasma
transfusions and other intensive care.
Puppies and dogs should not eat or drink until the
vomiting has stopped. But require fluid support during that time. This can take three to five days. Antibiotics are prescribed to prevent septicemia and other
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bacterial complications, which are the usual cause of
death.
The outcome depends upon the virulence of the specific strain of parvovirus, the age and immune status
of the dog, and how quickly the treatment is started.
Most pups who are under good veterinary care recover without complications.
Prevention: Thoroughly clean and disinfect the quarters of infected animals. Parvo is an extremely hardy virus that resists most household cleaners and survives
on the premises for months.
The most effective disinfectant is:
Household bleach in a 1:32 dilution. The bleach must
be left on the contaminated surface for 20 minutes before being rinsed.
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Little bit of Botswana
As in most countries, the American Pit Bull Terrier is a
much feared breed in Botswana. This is mostly due to
media perpetuating incidents where; dogs labelled as
American Pit Bull Terrier’s, dogs that are cross bred and
mutts have mauled and in extreme situations killed
people.
The community is mostly populated by young
people who strive to improve the reputation of
the breed across the country. They often do
APBT walks that are mainly aimed at showing
the general public that their dogs are not
what the media perceives them to be. Since
the APBT scene is quite new there has
never been a pit bull show or registry
until the African Pit Bull Registry.
In yesteryears, there were registered dogs brought
into the country, the “Tant’s Yellow” bloodline which
were bred down from Import (RSA) Tant’s David R.O.M.
Over the years more dogs have been brought into the
country, most of which were scatter bred and sadly
they were bred to local dogs of unknown pedigrees.
Psychotic Kennels has brought some dogs of the
“Southern Kennels Gr Ch Mayday R.O.M” bloodline
into the country and as of late, there are a few individuals who are still bringing more registered dogs in the
country. It is estimated that Botswana has only under
1000 American Pit Bull Terriers, majority of which are
unregistered dogs.
Article by: “M”
“there has
never been a
pit bull show
or registry until
the African Pit
Bull Registry”
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INTERVIEW WITH
GARY J. HAMMONDS
When talking to somebody who owns a Pit Bull Terrier, it is unavoidable that the subject of pedigrees
comes up. Pedigrees make up a very important aspect of breeding any type of animal, but especially
so with high performance animals such as Pit Bull
Terriers. When it comes to breeding and raising
puppies into full grown healthy dogs some people
seem to have more success than others.
Anyone who has experience in the field will tell
you that it takes a lot if time, money and patience
along with plenty of common sense before any
good results will come off. Unmistakably, Gary J.
Hammonds from Texas is one of the very few that
can look back at a very successful career, breeding a
high percentage of good dogs. Some of the better
known dogs that he bred are such as Frits Jansen’s
Champion SPIKE, which turned out to be one of the
best producing dogs in Europe. Ronnie Anderson’s
Champion SPADE, Champion SMILEY and Champion GOOSE. But the dog that Gary gained most fame
with is, without any doubt, the RUFUS dog who
proved to be one of the best producing male dogs
in the World.
Gary is known to be a very scientific breeder and is
most famous for his ALLIGATOR line of dogs which
are still playing an important role in the breed-
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ing program of many serious breeders around the
world. During my trip through North Texas, I decided to look him up and ask him about his experience
on the subject of breeding dogs. Upon arriving he
spontaneously agreed on doing an interview. While
Gary was finishing his last preparations for the
weight pull of the following day, I Started to ask him
the next question:
Gary, why have you chosen to bred the ALLIGATOR bloodline? Years ago I had access to a bunch of
dogs and I had mainly BRUNO/HEINZL dogs. I could
have taken good BULLYSON and good CORVINO
bred dogs, but I’ve seen the ALLIGATOR stuff and
really liked what I saw. The main thing that I liked so
much about these dogs; SOKO, RENEE and ALLIGATOR was that they were smart dogs, they were hard
to hurt, and they were real Game dogs. This was 10
or 15 years ago. The mom and daddy to these dogs
were not really impressive, they were NIGGER and
SATIN LADY, but together they certainly produced
some good dogs. I didn’t like either of them as individuals, but they sure produced. At this moment
I have about one hundred and ten dogs and most
are bred from this bloodline.
Some people that I have spoken to told me that
NIGGER was a Cur. What do you think about this?
I’ve heard the same thing. I don’t know if it was
true. But, too many people tell the same story that
it had to be true. See NIGGER was one of the last of
the Tudor stuff. NIGGER was heavy JEFF and BABY
breeding, so when you got down to that end and
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you wanted to breed to that stuff you were pretty
much limited and NIGGER was, I suppose, the best
producer of them all.
How did you get started with these dogs? When I
was 3 years old I had a Bulldog that saved my life.
He pulled me out of a bar ditch that was flooding
and without that dog I would have drowned. He
was not a full blooded top line Pit Bull, but he was ¾
Pit and ¼ farm dog. He thought he was 100% Bulldog and looked like it too. He would jump on anything. His name was TIPP. That’s how I got Started
with Pit Bulls and I have had a love affair with them
ever since.
How do you feel about heavy Inbreeding? I sure like
Inbreeding. It’s a tool that if you take it a generation or two far you will lose what you are Inbreeding for. Those types, those characteristics that are
linked with Inbreeding many times, are lost due to
too heavy inbreeding.
What do you do to prevent this from happening?
With every generation you take a hard look at what
you’ve got and you decide if the individuals from
that generation are good enough to breed back to
the previous generation, like; father to daughter,
mother to son, or whatever and if you can’t justify
it then you don’t need to carry it on any further. Although you could very easily cutcross in that generation, or even introduce a catalyst blood to that
family of dogs to Keep it vigorous. you can do.
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What’s the catalyst factor in your breeding program? I’ve used BULLYSON and BRUNO/HEINZL as
the catalyst and with good results. Right now I’ve
got a little stud dog that is out of the NIGERINO type
stuff. JOLIE BLOND bred to MITZIE and I think that’s
going to be a good catalyst along with the RALPH
dog I have. He is down from PEDRO. I think either
of these can be good catalyst blood. PEDRO is from
that RASCAL type breeding and he was owned by
GARNER.
What is the main quality you are looking for in a
stud dog? An ability to reproduce. The qualities that
a dog has to have in today’s environment, whether
it’s Pit environment, Catch Dog, Weight pull dog or
whatever. The qualities I breed for are Gameness
and INTELLIGENCE, a good example is GARY and
CHRISTI ATHANS SAIGON. SAIGON is a tremendous
weight pull dog and comes from a good family of
dogs, he is straight out of my stuff. But you don’t see
many of my dogs that are good weight pull dogs.
There is a lot of growing interest in breeding dogs
for weight pulls and etc…. It seems that most of
these people are not interested in Gameness and
other traditional qualities. No they aren’t. But of
course there are a lot that are just Pulling dogs. For
instance, a lot of weight pull dogs are straight stifled
UKC type dogs that would have a hard time with the
more fighting type dog whether it be a good fighting dog or not. At the APBA Nationals, I see more
and more of the Pull dogs that look like I think he
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the old fighting dogs with the roached back and
long legs.
Do you make a distinction between a fighting dog
and a stud dog? In my opinion what you need in
a stud dog, whether he is a fighting dog or not is
a dog that can reproduce. Sound genetic structure
both between the ears and in the heart, and also,
the body has to be sound. Too many times people
lose track of this and they breed to Champion so
and so or Grand Champion etc… but because of
their title it doesn’t mean they will be able to produce that type of dog. So what I look for in a stud
dog is a relatively tight genetic pool, and a family
rather than two or three good individuals.
But that means you have to by pedigrees and you
know as well as I do there are a lot of dogs out there
with fake pedigrees on them! Yes, I use pedigrees
a great deal, but it’s not just what you see on paper…. Like the dogs I’ve messed with, I’ve seen their
grand-parents first hand, as well as the parents and
other similar bred individuals and I’ve used those
dogs instead of the dogs from another part of the
country that I was not sure about the pedigree.
About pedigrees. Practically all of your dogs go back
to Maurice Carver stuff. There are a lot of rumours
about him mixing up pedigrees when he was still
alive. Since you work a great deal with pedigrees do
you believe to know the true ancestry of your dog’s
when it goes back to SATIN LADY for instance? I believe so and I’ll tell you why. It was too screwed up
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of a breeding, as far as on paper, not to be the truth. If
you look at SATIN LADY, she was a scatter bred Bitch
out of IRONHEAD and BLACK BEAUTY. She was a big
black Bitch and I asked Maurice about it on one of
my visits to his place. I asked him; “Maurice why did
you make a breeding like that?” And he said, “Well
son, I tell you, I thought it be good.” Maurice had a
way of mixing blood on papers and pedigrees and
whatever it took to make it work. I think that part
of the reason for Maurice putting out bogus pedigrees was to keep the secret to himself. I sincerely
believe that the pedigrees on the dogs that I use to
be right. If they’re not, it’s too late to worry about it
anyway because I’m 3 or 4 generations away from
what Maurice owned or sold to old man Williams,
like the SATIN LADY Bitch and others, but I will say
this, in the seventies Maurice Carver was the BEST
breeder in the country. He bred more dogs in those
years, first class dogs, than any other 5 top breeders in the country. But the pedigree thing I really
sincerely believe it’s no more than Maurice’s way
of keeping his secrets secret. He would sell you the
cake, but Keep the recipe.
What about your Howard Heinzl dogs? They were
certainly good dogs but…. And I hate to say this,
they lost a lot of what they were famous for in the
sixties and seventies. It is no fault of Howard because
he bred with some real good genetic back ground
and put it together the way it was supposed to be.
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I think he lived bred those dogs just too tight and
they played out. It would click if you would cross it,
but Heinzl kept it pure. The stuff he used before and
what I liked so much was line bred; 50/50 Colby/
Dibo. That combination was hard to beat. My TAFFY
Bitch was one of those combinations. She was a hell
of a dog and I saw some more that were bred the
same way that would make the owner proud. She
was a double MUSTY bred dog off BAT and TWIGGY.
Texas is a very big state with an awful lot of Bulldogs
and a great number of dog men. Some claim the
best dogs and breeders are in Texas. Do you agree
with this? I think we have a tremendous base in Texas because there have been a great deal of breeding’s between the top dog men from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana and to a lesser degree in Mexico.
When you have a situation like this and the competition of the last 40 or 50 years right here in Texas between top dog men it’s only logical that you come
up with some top notch bulldogs and dog men.
Also, another thing that has made the Texas dogs
so good is that several breeders from here went out
to buy dogs from Corvino, Heinzl, Tudor, Kinard and
Boudreaux. All these very good bloodlines were put
together so it’s just the situation that arose. I’m sure
at some time in history, there will be another spot in
the world the dogs will be just as good as the dogs
in Texas are right now, but they really have to do
their work to get there.
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From
Mozambique
Whilst sifting through my videos and pictures of
apbts my contemplations have been on the APBR
article and how I was going to introduce the Mozambican apbt community to our fellow Africans.
Although the show apbt is more prevalent we have
bonafide game dogs mainly imported from South
Africa, in addition RM Kennels have imported dogs
from Southern Kennels and German Croata Kennels.
We have all kinds of pedigrees in Mozambique and
dogmen have started to acquire more game dogs
than the show dog variety. Currently dogmen are
running dogs imported from Swaziland that are
heavy in Big John and Teacher blood, dogs imported from South Africa, mainly the South African Yellow and Frisco lines and dogs from Ecuador, mainly
the Vili-Mayday line.
Weight pulling events are still few and far between,
but the Moon/Mot line imported from SA through
Toks is doing very well. So far Toks and his offspring
have performed at a high level and showed gameness and grit. They capture the essence of what I believe to be the spirit of the American Pitbull Terrier.
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Toks’ performances remind us of the great game
dogs of the past like Jeep, Honey Bunch and Mayday to name a few. His loyalty, commitment to task,
unadulterated will, intelligence and pure ability has
made him famous amongst the apbt community in
Mozambique.
Generally Mozambicans love their dogs. We look at
our game dogs as beloved children who will stand
by us no matter what. Game magnificent beasts
that are capable, intelligent, iron-willed and loyal to
the core.
Article by: RX
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EDURO PITS
It seems like just the other day myself and Wazeer were
at one of the local dog shows in CPT where we started
discussing how the shows are affecting the breed as a
whole. We basically came to the conclusion that there
is a big flaw in how the shows are put together (well according to us). Handlers were allowed to choose which
events they would like to participate in instead of paying one fee and then giving them all a try.
More and more people would only do the events that
their dog excelled in which was defeating the purpose
of having various events to test different aspects of
your dog. We noticed that dogs were becoming much
larger than we were used to seeing over the few years
that we attended shows together. Many handlers were
becoming obsessed with the weight pull event specifically and many breeding’s were based on the dam and
sire’s weight pulling ability instead of all round performance. It appeared to us that the focus on Iron Dog
has been lost. The term ALL ROUNDER has become a
thing of the past.
Since our discovery of this loophole at shows we brainstormed for over 3 years trying to figure out a way to
‘fix’ this issue and came up with a concept that would
incorporate all the aspects of a ‘typical show’ but also
focus more on the handler and dog relationship. We
also had to work side by side with the Animal Cruelty
Act to ensure ensure that we were in line with what
they stipulated. We wanted to test the handler’s
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knowledge on the various show apparatuses as well as
the equipment needed to complete each task. We wanted to ensure that the handler could not push the dogs
too far by letting them do all the work while the owner
barks orders to the dog from the side-line. We wanted
the handler to be there every step of the way thus ensuring that the handler also needs to be fit enough to
see the dog through to each event. Our theory paid
off when we witness a fit kickboxing champion with
a well-conditioned dog loses to a ‘juicy healthy’ Rasta
with a fit dog. Unlike a normal show nobody can tell
which dog will take which event at the registration table in the morning of the event, the winner can be anyone present on that day. We have incorporated various
time penalties as well for different events.
In a nutshell it took us +-3 years to design a concept
until we started building the equipment ourselves
and taking the big plunge into the unknown which is
the show world. We never wanted to be in competition with anyone and actually tried our best to deviate
away from the ‘normal shows’. In essence we wanted
to test the dogs under more pressure while testing the
handler’s ability to handle their dog and their experience in conditioning them for the various events. What
we have created is the Iron Man challenge but for both
the handler and the dog.
We would like to thank our committee members Elliott
Swartz, Shadley Moosa and Enver Pockpass for all their
hard work, time and effort put into ensuring that our
Dream has become a reality. Thank you to everyone
who has been supporting us thus far.
Article by: Editor and Wazeer Khan & Olando Jacobs
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Seadensun
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Let’s start with my first encounter with a pit bull. I
was still in school and had
a dog named Dingo. Dingo was a cross between
a Doberman and a ridgeback a very aggressive
dog and that dog could
jump any fence. Whenever there was a bitch on
heat, dingo will go and
sniff her out and he will
always end up meeting
other males that had the
same intensions. In those
days everyone knew who
was living in the neighborhood and when the
“you need
to be
dedicated”
males started fighting for
the bitch, we will get a call
and that’s where my interest started, I liked the action. I moved to Pretoria
when I was about 22 years
old. My neighbor had and
female pit bull carver/paladin bred dogs. They were
very nicely structured and
I had to get myself one.
So when they had pups
I bought one for a lot of
money R100 LOL
Needless to say I started
with my pit bull that was
named phisens. I exercised him and got him
looking good for SA Federation Shows and he did
very well, so I knew I had a
pit bull. Phisens was very
smart and muscular,
a very nice looking dog like his Parents. I use to walk
with him every day for exercise. One day while I was
walking phisens, people left their gate open and out
came a bull terrier but I was not worried because I had
a pit bull terrier. I tried to chase the bull terrier away
but like all bull terriers they wanted action so phisens
and the bull terrier grabbed each other. It took 5minutes for the bull terrier to make old phisens scream like
a baby LOL and then I saw it doesn’t mean anything
having a pit bull, you have to have the right one LOL.
So my quest started for the real pit bull not just a pretty
dog that does well on pit bull shows.
It was about 8 years later that I got the right people with
the right dogs, dogs that been tested and bred like a
pit bull should be, not just for conformation, hanging
or jumping abilities but for gameness and that’s how I
started.
I Got GRCh Gritler ROM when I was 29 years old. I heard
from a friend Mr. Midnight sun that sigmersons kennels was moving to Australia and selling all his dogs
and I was interested.
I met sigmersons and asked him to show me his dogs
that he was selling, there was nothing that caught my
interest, then he showed me dogs that he was going
to give to his friend and there was gritler standing a
6month old pup. I said to him I wanted that pup and
he said that pup was going to one of his best friends
and he was not going to sell him. I thanked him and
said I don’t want any of his other dogs, as I left sigmer-
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sons and Midnight talked and because of sigmersons
going overseas he needed the money and said to midnight sun that I can get that little yellow pup for R1000,
then they called me back and sold gritler to me.
I started taking Gritler to shows, he was a beautiful dog
and did very well at the shows, so I made him a show
champion. Gritler was a dog that was always very proud
and I can remember he was about 10 months old when
he and a female I had out of Ch little boy got stuck into
each other. She was a year and a half and much bigger
then Gritler, well I thought she was going to hurt my
little Gritler, it turn out to be that Gritler wasn’t just a
show dog. He put her on her back and had her screaming and in 5min I knew he was something else.
Gritlers Career started when he was 1 Year and 5months
old, he was very smart and had a lot of stamina and
gameness. He was also a very calm dog that did not
go and look for any trouble but he was always ready to
go when trouble was looking for him LOL. He was my
house dog. Since his departure I never had a dog like
him again, up till today.
Most of the things I know of conditioning I learned
from the dogmen I met, they will give me some information on how to condition and I say some, because
if a dogman got something that he thinks might work
for him he won’t share it unless he is a very good friend
of yours, the rest is common sense, think for yourself.
If you want to get into the game the advice I can give
don’t keep many dogs because a game dog needs to
be kept busy every day. You can walk with him, take
him for a ride, flirt him, run him but do something with
him every day, you need be dedicated.
You cannot have a game bred dog and feed him low
quality Food every day and when you get him hooked
up start feeding him good food. It’s like bruce fordyce
doing the comrades, he doesn’t eat hamburgers every
day till 3 months before the comrades and only then
start exercing amd eating healthy. You will never know
if a pup is going to be a good dog or not but your percentage is better if you buy a tested male and female.
And that’s about all I can tell. I can give a lot more advice by talking to you, I’m not really a good writer LOL
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HISTORY
In 1835 the British Parliament outlawed bull baiting,
a sadistic gambling game in which bulldogs were
used to attack and harass bulls brought to market
with the dubious intention of tenderizing the meat.
The dog would assault the bull, avoid the stomping
hooves and slashing horns, grab a tender nose or
ear, and hang on until the bull collapsed. Commoners and royalty alike sought diversion from the violence and diseases of their day by attending these
bloody spectacles until a public outcry forced Parliament to take a stand.
Once bull baiting was banned, dog breeders who
appreciated the fierceness, courage, and tenacity
of the bull dogs turned their attentions to breeding
dogs for dog fighting. They began with the bull dog,
mixed in some terrier blood, and produced the Bull
and Terrier, a dog that met all of their expectations.
The Bull and Terrier was bred for aggression to other
dogs, unrelenting bravery, a high pain threshold, a
willingness to fight to the end, and an affection for
people.
Bull and Terrier dogs came to the US in the early
1800s as all-around farm dogs and frontier guardians. Samuel Clemons featured a pup of this breed
in his short book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County.
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The United Kennel Club recognized the Bull and
Terrier Dog as the American Pit Bull Terrier in 1898.
Buster Brown shoes put its mascot in every shoe
with the image of Tige, an American Pit Bull Terrier,
to enhance its image as a sturdy, dependable shoe.
RCA used Nipper, a pit bull of unknown ancestry,
to illustrate the clarity of sound emanating from its
phonograph — after all, it could fool the loyal pit
bull into thinking he heard “his master’s voice” in
person. The breed was used to illustrate American
neutrality without fear in 1914, the toughness of
Levi jeans, and as a”defender of Old Glory.”
The AKC eschewed breeds called “pit bulls” until
1936, when it recognized the American Pit Bull Terrier under the alias Staffordshire Terrier, named after the miners of Staffordshire, England, who had a
hand in developing the breed for the fighting pit.
The name was changed in 1972 to the American
Staffordshire Terrier to distinguish the breed from
the Staffordshire Bull Terrier of England, the ancestor of the American dogs, which was recognized by
AKC in 1974. The British version of the dog is 14-16
inches tall and weighs up to 45 pounds. The American cousin is 18-19 inches tall and weighs up to 80
pounds. UKC’s American Pit Bull Terrier is preferred
to range from 30-60 pounds with females generally,
but not necessarily, smaller than males.Staffs, AmStaffs, and APBTs produced by responsible breeders are bred for temperament. Many dogs of these
breeds are therapy dogs; some do quite well in obedience.
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Editors
Letter
I was so excited to start writing again that I totally
forgot how much planning and research goes into
running a magazine. It’s always a pleasure to write
about pit bulls and to share information with people that want grow and expand their knowledge, by
doing all of the above it stimulates my mind as well.
I have notice a lot of false information is being
shared over social media and this is causing a lot
frustration because you all of a sudden have people
who join the pit bull community and seem to know
everything. My ever end is these fools that have
dogs for 2 years and call them self, pit bull experts,
making video clips looking like gangsters yet they
have never owned a real pit bull.
Don’t get me started on the greenies, they seem to
believe pit bulls were bred to get along. If you are
brave and have money for vet bills by all means try
it otherwise keep them separated at all times. We
need to realise not everyone is for the breed and will
do everything in their power to destroy the APBT
however we won’t go down without a fight. I want
challenge every single pit bull owner to be responsible, do your research, make sure when you walk
you dogs that you know what to do should some
dog decide to attack your pit bull. Take good care
of you pit bulls, don’t give anyone ammunition to
bad mouth our breed and to point fingers at the pit
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bull community. Clean up you yard, disinfect it, by
doing all these things it creates a positive image, it
might not look so but should the spca decide to visit
your yard, at least you know you don’t have to panic
because you yard is in order. Always remember the
following, you don’t know who might be watching
you. See you self as an ambassador, you don’t need
someone cyber dogger or money greed breeder to
ordain you as one, you automatically become one
when you have the breeds interest at heart.
Most importantly don’t be a cyber dogger, as mentioned social media created a very negative image
over the last few years, especially Facebook, if you
one of them then you need to stop right now, and
pledge to only post positive things that will positively promote our breed. If you a new pit bull owner
I will advise you to get involve with pit bull shows, I
can guarantee you, you will learn a lot at shows , by
saying this, I want to also advise you not to get get
involve with show politics, do it for your dogs and
not for someone else’s ego.
I hope you enjoy this month’s edition of our magazine and if you have any suggestions don’t hesitate
to email us
THE EDITOR
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