What for someone who breeds hog dogs? Or terriers that go to ground outside of the accepted trials? How about hounds that hunt great but not under a club program? I don't think the problem people have is that mutts and such need to be fixed, it's that it is being forced and we have all seen where this goes. BSL is a prime example. Ban aggressive dogs. Then dogs that look aggressive (pit bulls). Then dogs that look like the dogs that look aggressive. Then dogs over a certain weight. Ect. Give them an inch and they will shit all over your rights. It's been done before. There are plenty of dogs out there worthy of being bred that have never walked into a show ring. The conformation rings are WAY overrated. Someone who has worked the breed knows how they need to be conformed far better then someone who read out of a booklet. Patterdale judges who've never seen a dog go to ground, sighthound judges who've never even seen a dog course, Border Collie judges who've never seen a dog herd. Not even seen it let alone have years in expierience doing it.
AKC AmStaff... Why are dogs like these........
CH Commander
CH Knight
CH Big Tex
Constantly placed above ones like these.....
Quotes from the AKC standard...
"agile and graceful"
"neck Medium length."
"Back Fairly short. Slight sloping from withers to rump with gentle short slope at rump to base of tail. Loins slightly tucked."
All three of those first CHs fail miserably not even considering their basic structure.
UKC American Pit Bull Terrier...
The dogs winning....
GR CH Bogan
CH Cairo
CH Buster Jo
And the dogs who actually meet the standard.
Quotes from the UKC standard...
"medium-sized"
"well-defined musculature"
"both powerful and athletic"
"length of the front leg (measured from point of elbow to the ground) is approximately equal to one-half of the dog's height at the withers"
"head is of medium length"
"This breed combines strength and athleticism with grace and agility and should never appear bulky or muscle-bound or fine-boned and rangy""exaggerations or faults should be penalized"
"Supraorbital arches over the eyes are well defined but not pronounced"
"Cheek muscles are prominent but free of wrinkles"
"The length of muzzle is shorter than the length of skull, with a ratio of approximately 2:3"
"Lips are clean and tight"
"neck is of moderate length"
"skin on the neck is tight and without dewlap"
"Faults: Neck too short and thick; thin or weak neck; ewe neck; dewlap"
"The shoulder blades are long, wide, muscular, and well laid back. The upper arm is roughly equal in length to the shoulder blade and joins it at an apparent right angle."
"The elbows are set close to the body"
"Viewed from the front, the forelegs are set
moderately wide apart and perpendicular to the ground."
"Faults: Upright or loaded shoulders; elbows turned outward or tied-in; down at the pasterns; front legs bowed; wrists knuckled over; toeing in or out"
"The chest is deep, well filled in, and
moderately wide with ample room for heart and lungs, but the
chest should never be wider than it is deep."
"loin is short, muscular and slightly arched to the top of the croup, but narrower than the rib cage"
"croup is slightly sloping downward"
"bone, angulation, and musculature of the hindquarters are in balance with the forequarters"
"hock joint is well bent and the rear pasterns are well let down and perpendicular to the ground"
"actual weight and height are less important than the correct proportion of weight to height. Desirable weight for a mature male in good condition is between 35 and 60 pounds. Desirable weight for a mature female in good condition is between 30 and 50 pounds"
The above CHs failed more then 70% of the UKC standard. Sad.
ADBA/AADR pits.....
CH Chola
CH Onyx
GR CH Badger
And dogs that meet the standard...
Quotes from the standards...
"HEAD short and deep, as compared with most other breeds"
"elbow should be even with the chest"
"elbow should not turn in or out"
"body should be muscular with good bone"
"tail should be shaped like a pump handle, with the tip about even with the hock"
"Equal angulation of front and rear assembly"
"Too long a loin causes the dog to
carry excessive weight and affect a dogs agility and quickness"
"CHEST Deep and elliptical"
"bottom of the ribcage should at least be
even with the elbow joint"
"Scapula well laid back, 45 degree or less angle to the ground, and broad and flat
allowing for adequate muscular attachment for a heavy and sturdy front end"
"elbow comes to the bottom of the
ribcage, elbows lying flat against the body"
"Forearms are slightly longer than the humerus and solid, twice the thickness of the metatarsal at the hock"
"HEAD Wedge shaped when viewed from the top or side"
"length from the nose to the stop should equal the length from the stop to the back of the head"
"head should be deep from the top of the head to the bottom of the jaw"
"Straight box like muzzle"
The first three CHs again do not meet the standard.
And what about this APBT registered dog...
An ACE of ACE pull dog. Worth being intact according to that law. Only one problem, he's an American Bulldog/Dogue de Bordeaux mix. Not one APBT gene in him. That is a well known fact. There is an entire bloodline of APBT registered Whopper dogs. Mandatory spay/neuter may help some. The problem is all the great dogs that don't meet up to the governments standards who will not be bred and all the crappy ones that will.
Someone sent me this in an email. It's a good read.
There was a chemistry professor in a large college who had some exchange students in the class.
One day, while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student,
who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet
lodged in his back . Communists in his native country, who were trying to overthrow his country's
government and install a new communist regime, had shot him while he was fighting them.
In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke.
"You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come
every day to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place
where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another
side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence
up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free
corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run
around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America. The government keeps pushing us
toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP),welfare, medicine, drugs, etc..
while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.
