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Hi, can someone please point me in the direction of DOL Hall of Fame if it's still going? Thank you in advance.

Thanks all. Still looking.

Hi, This has probably been posted before, but can anyone point me in the direction of a Patterdale Terrier breeder. Thanks in advance.

I had been sending media releases everyday about a Nationwide Fundraiser for Rescue Animals and they were not interested but this is newsworthy? I have emailed my contact and said that I am cancelling further advertising and that our next catalogue will be done via letterboxes and that I won't be placing any printed ads for the next 3 months. That one article has done damage to the credibility of registered breeders breeding for the betterment of the breed, not their hip pocket and more people breeding for the "bikie" market will pop up now This might of been a paid advertisement "by himself" ? It's something he would do to increase Puppy sales !

Hi, Stuart from Runamuk Amstaffs here. I've been breeding the Amstaff for 15 years now and have had 5 litters in that time, not 5 litters a week like some !! In answer to your Q above NONE of those health issues are compulsory testing for the Amstaff,..but all breeders should be at least testing for Ataxia,Hips and elbows. I was always of the belief as far as health testing and the ANKC go, for a health issue to become compulsory tested in any breed it first must be "proven" that it's an hereditary breed health problem,...I think that's where all the Red tape is coming from before testing can made compulsory,..trying to prove that a problem within a breed is hereditary/genetical?

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Hi, i have a question directed at the Brittish breeder's and members of the Forum. What i would like to know is, do you think the Patterdale Terrier, such as the "Nuttall" Patt's will ever become a recognised breed in the U.K. I certainly know what the comment's would be from the Working Terrier folk, but just interested to hear from the "show" people. Thanks.

An American Bulldogs for sure, but i dont think it would be a Johnson's, looks to be more along the lines of a Scott's. The Scott's Am-Bulldogs are very athlettic and Perfomance Bred, where as the massive "Johnson" dogs are bred for looks alone.

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Runamuk American Staffordshire Terrier's have a litter due on the 13th Jan.

FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS AMERICANS KNEW PIT BULLS FOR WHAT THEY DID BEST. BABYSITTING. http://www.ywgrossman.com/photoblog/?p=676 RICH OR POOR, AMERICAN PARENTS KNEW EXACTLY WHAT PIT BULLS WERE FAMOUS FOR. BEING GREAT WITH KIDS. http://www.ywgrossman.com/photoblog/?p=1103 THE CRUELEST TRICK EVER PLAYED ON A BREED OF DOG http://www.ywgrossman.com/photoblog/?p=604http:// YOURE FACING A GERMAN SHEPHERD, A ROTTWEILER, A DOBERMAN PINSCHER, AND A PIT BULL http://www.ywgrossman.com/photoblog/?p=853 THERE’S ONLY ONE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE 2 DOGS. THEIR OWNERS. http://www.ywgrossman.com/photoblog/?p=837

EACH YEAR IN AMERICA: -410,000 people are killed directly from smoking cigarettes -35,000 are killed from second hand smoke -26,000 are killed by illegal guns -25,000 are killed by drunk drivers -3,500 are killed in backyard swimming pools -17 are killed by dogs -3 of those are killed by Pit Bulls, so Pit Bulls must be banned. Given the overwhelming abuse Pit Bulls endure, and the undesirable people who too often own them, it’s astonishing that number is so low. PIT BULLS AREN’T DANGEROUS TO HUMANS. OWNERS ARE.

Agree'd 100%! Regardless of what the child did ..if the kid needed hundreds of stitches then..."this was a mauling"... it wasnt just a quick snap to say stop standing on my Paw !!

I think there are 2 different breed standards for the "Pit Bull". The first one is the Standard that the Pit Dogman use, and that would be the Results of the match, a "performance" based standard (ADBA Reg) ...and then you have the "written" standard that the "Conformation" Pit Breeders are using, which i think is probably more U.K.C Reg Pit's these day.

A Pit Bull as i understand it, ...is simply a "Bulldog" that's used in the fighting Pit. Keeping in mind that a "Bulldog" in the USA in NOT necessarily a "Brachycephalic" type of dog that most people from other countries would visulise it to be. A "Bulldog" can be of any mix or any pure breed and is described as a hard, tenasious, fearless no messing type of dog. "Pit", in the word "Pit Bull" discribes the "FUNCTION" that that dog performes, the same as the function of a Sheppard was to Sheppard and the function of a Pointer was the Point etc etc. Unfortunately i didnt book mark this reference but i have read that the dogman of old would only call a dog a Pit Bull "AFTER" it had won 3 fight's, it was a kind of title that was put on a dog, unlike the "Ch" title put on the Pit dogs of today when it has won 3. I recon if this is true the dogman of old would be rolling in their grave with all these dogs being called Pit Bulls whitout even putting so much as a Paw in the Pit!!?? Dogs back in the early day's would be roaming the streets everywhere, if you saw a good prospect having a Scrap with another dog then it would be trained for the Pit, if it was any good it would then be used in their breeding program. It didnt matter what the dog "was" or looked like, it was all about performance!.... infact many dogs used where just Mangy bred street dogs, not dogs of a "pure breed"!