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09-08-2005, 01:13 PM
American Bulldog x DDB
Hi guys need advice, at the weekend was told about some American Bulldog puppies. At the moment they are two weeks old.We have just been to view the puppies (which are gorgeous) but after questioning the breeder we find that the mother is an American Bulldog (she is Johnson line) and the father is a DDB (Sumo line), now the breeder says they are still classed as American Bulldogs is this right?
5 of the puppies resemble their father in colour and a wrinkled muzzle.
4 resemble the mother they dont have wrinkled muzzles (2 are black, 1 brindle and one white).
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09-08-2005, 01:40 PM
Originally Posted by Roxy
Hi guys need advice, at the weekend was told about some American Bulldog puppies. At the moment they are two weeks old.We have just been to view the puppies (which are gorgeous) but after questioning the breeder we find that the mother is an American Bulldog (she is Johnson line) and the father is a DDB (Sumo line), now the breeder says they are still classed as American Bulldogs is this right?
5 of the puppies resemble their father in colour and a wrinkled muzzle.
4 resemble the mother they dont have wrinkled muzzles (2 are black, 1 brindle and one white).
I got to say I don't know any thing about what lines can be crossed and still be called a American Bulldog (I would say you can't cross lines at all, but what the hell do I know).
Also I got to say! If you don't know what makes a bulldog are you realy the right person to have one. They are in the Dangerous Dogs Act for a point, and that is they are killers no way around it they were made to fight and fight. There was one in the paper the other day killed a little kid.
Of the 199 dog-attack fatalities in the USA between 1979 and 1996, dogs identified as pit bulls were responsible for 60 attacks—just under a third. The next most-dangerous group was Rottweilers, responsible for 29 attacks (statistics from the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/...00047723.htm)).
According to The Age, pit bull terriers have been responsible for four of the seven dog attacks in which Australians have died between 1991 and 2002. The Endangered Dog Breeds Association of Australia, however, denies these figures, and claims that pit bull terriers have caused no known fatalities, and that only 8 of 750 investigated bitings involved this breed. Most Australian state governments have introduced new legislation specific to pit bulls.
In 1835, bullbaiting was abolished by Parliament as cruel, and the custom died out over the following years. In its place the sport of dog fighting took hold, and it is commonly believed that breeders crossed bulldog and terrier blood to produce a better fighter.
During the mid-1800s, immigration to the United States from Ireland and England brought an influx of these dogs to America, where the strain diverged once again as new traits were selected for by breeders.
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