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THE TRUE STORY OF CHAMPION EL DIABLO NEGRO – THE BLACK DEVIL In 1993 MAD’s Good Friend Black Smokey came to MAD’S yard and Asked if he would house a mother and son pair of pit bulls for a few months until Black Smokey finds a place to keep them. MAD said sure being that MAD had just purchased a boarding kennel that could house easily over 100 dogs. The...
ROOTS OF THE GRAND OLD BREED – By Richard F. Stratton Without a doubt, the American PitBull Terrier is the most controversial breed in the world today. It wasn’t always thus. Only forty years ago, it was but a little known breed, and the people who did know about it often had misconceptions. Now the breed is so famous that its name is part of the lexicon, and rock groups...
THAT AIN’T NO PIT BULL – Jack Kelly i Lived in New York City when I got my first Pit Bull in 1957. Except for one or two others I was the only person living in the city to own a Pit Bull. You could walk your Pit Bull all over the city and no one ever even noticed what kind of dog you had at the end of your...
CH KING MAUI Ch Maui was born on the East Coast of the country, in a litter full of vigorous pups bred by Wee Wee and Tuffliner kennels… His sire was the Ch Fire dog who was a product of River kennels’ Ballistic ROM bred to Spirit POR. His mother was sired by the great Jumanji’s Gr Ch Red Roman DOY (another son of the afore mentioned Ballistic ROM) to...
MEDICATIONS AND PERFORMANCE For a drug to have an effect, it must enter the body and be delivered to the site at which it will act. Drugs can be taken into the body by many different means. They can be ingested orally and then absorbed into the body through the lining of the stomach or the small intestine. They can be injected under the skin, where they diffuse slowly into...
STRESS AND THE PERFORMANCE DOG Our understanding of stress and its effects on health and performance is only in its infancy in humans. Even less is understood about stress in dogs. One definition of stress is that it is a response (positive or negative) to environmental influences. Examples of things that cause stress in humans include major life events such as a death in the family, marriage, divorce, moving to...
THE ORIGIN OF THE BULL TERRIER The Bull Terrier is a breed sufficiently modern, to leave no doubt as to its derivation. In the first quarter of the ninteenth century, attention was being directed to the improvement of the Terriers throughout England and Ireland. New types were sought. The sporting men of that time, who patronized the prize ring and the cock pit, desired to produce a dog which could...
Dogs are our most beloved animals—and with good reason, too. They are our surrogate children. A lot of people love their dogs more than their children. I don’t condemn them for that. Children can be ungrateful and bratty. I happen to like kids, but I understand people that don’t. The truth is that a lot of people should not have children, and most people shouldn’t own Bulldogs. But I digress....
