Great Article Please Cross Post Everywhere!

[Walt]

http://www.terrierman.com/rosettestoruin.htm

[loves-da-pits]

Walt: Loved your link! This is what I loved the most. "By the AKC's own estimates, a majority of newcomers to the sport, stick with it an average five years, when they give up or move on to a new HOBBY, they leave behind a trail of dogs that were not systematically bred to do a job, they were bred to produce ribbons and often by people who never completely finished reading a book on their own breed." I love it when I think something and someone comes along and says it so well.

[Jas]

Oh please! I won't be cross posting this anywhere. As a breeder who works hard ensuring that my dogs are still to standard and quite capable of doing their job, I hate to see such blanket statements, when clearly this is not always the case. I show my dogs and they can still do their job.

[Walt]

Jas,

The post is talking about the rule not the exception.

[True_Pits]

My dogs van still do their job, performance dogs are the true dogs, but I still like my dogs in the standard with everything at its best. But I agree many breeds have been ruined as a whole by the Akc/Ukc. Look at their version of the APBT or GSD.

[Jas]

[spencerpits]

Well, personally, I agree with both points of view. But as far as just the APBT goes, I have to agree with the article. Look at the AKC and the UKC version of the APBT. Do you think those oversized, 'pretty' dogs could do their job of bringing down big game as well as a truely game bred APBT? However, we do need to stick to the standard for certain reasons. A well bred, conformationally correct APBT that is a cur is capable of outlasting a poorly bred, exceptionally game APBT. Here is an article that explains the importance of the entire package. It asks the question: What if this incredibly game APBT had been bred closer to it's conformation standards? How much better could it have been? http://www.workingpitbull.com/soundness.htm

[Walt]

Dam good articale spencerpits

Thanks.