Posted on 10/18/2015 3:00:21 PM PDT by NYer
I’ll stick with Briards! One of my old neighbors had a Poodle without the french haircut. It was beautiful, and loved the water!
THANK YOU for posting, and even more for RESCUING! Everyone, please ADOPT, never buy!
Hunting small predators. My oldest one is a blessing to our community .. she has eradicated mice and chipmunks, along with a few other swarmy characters.
Not so. Mine is a fabulous watch dog.
JRT? A close friend ran a rescue for the jacks. The sitcom Frazier made them popular but, unfortunately, the owners did not realize these dogs came with springs on their paws ;-)
I’m good with any dog that doesn’t present a threat to innocents, otherwise get a cat and shoot the dog.
Poodles. Don’t laugh. As I type this, Emma and Rufus are making sure what I type is nice.
Bowser is super gentle for a JRT unless he encounters a varmint that needs killing. I had to break up a fight between him and a raccoon that outweighed him by 15 lbs a couple weeks ago.
Bowser had the upper hand but I wasn’t sure he could keep it. He has killed smaller raccoons a few possums and dozens of woodchucks.
The article neglects to mention that mastiffs were often bred as war dogs. The earliest English Mastiff and the Roman counter measure, the Neopolitan Mastiff, are examples.
Beagles I beg to differ
Excellent pack to keep white tails moving.....
I’ve a Mastiff family Rottweiler....he still does what’s in his DNA....guards aggressively....with strange men that is
My American Bulldog RIP....same thing....my stud pony was yanking me around on a 10 foot lead role and she came thru the fence and running across the pasture and jumped up and tagged the horses lip
It froze and immediately lowered its neck down with her braced as such
She had zero training....pure gut instinct...it just popped out when provoked
Some breeds are still just fine thank you
Indeed!!! I still remember When Topsfield's Bumper Cars took Best of Breed and Best of Group at the Westminster Kennel Club Show.
When he entered the ring, representing the Hound Group for the Best in Show competition, he had the audience behind him. Unfortunately, the just that year picked a member of the toy group.
Still hoping to see a basset take Best in Show someday.
Pugs are good watch dogs, but not very good guard dogs.
I think they avoid awarding it to a Basset on purpose because someone will accuse them of doing it out of ‘cute factor’.
Years ago, late 80s/early 90s IIRC, there was one that was red, ALL red. Never say another like it and I’m a Bassethead. Thing was chiseled from marble. It was like Michelangelo hisdamnedself built the dog. Made no errors. And of course it didn’t even win it’s class. I stopped watching the shows after that.
What’s Up With Pugs?
When bull and bear baiting were outlawed in early 19th century England, of course the bulldog was sent looking for work.
(Butchers often owned `bulldogs’ and used them to bait steers & bulls believing the combat tenderized the beef)
With its `weight-forward physique, undershot jaw, slim haunches and powerful bite, the bulldogs would launch themselves at the bull’s tender nose or mouth and attempt to force the animal onto its knees and into submission. There were often several launched, one after the other at the bull, which was tethered to something sturdy. The owners often would try to catch a dog with their aprons, when the dog lost its grip and was thrown into the air a dozen or more feet.
There are accounts in Roman manuscripts mentioning a bulldog like dog, derived from the Molossus, an now-extinct breed which was used by the Romans in combat. The Romans required that if the breed was allowed in public that it had to be secured on a metal chain.
Having outlived its primary function, owners started breeding the bulldog with pugs and terriers, producing, respectively, the English bulldog and Pit bull terrier, and other bulldog=terrier hybrids for ratting and dog-fighting.
They found the bulldogs didn’t like to fight one another, or other dogs for that matter, but when they did, other similar-sized dogs didn’t last very long against them in the ring.
The pit bull terriers, however, took to fighting other dogs and ratting with enthusiasm.
Pugs are of course much smaller than the old English bulldog and pit bull terriers are about 1/2 to 3/4 their size.
Bulldogs transported to this country almost died-out as a breed. The American bulldog was recreated by two men, Scott and Johnson, who produced two similar dogs closely resembling written accounts, rare photographs and lithographs of the English dog, with the Scott being more agile and speedy while the Johnson is stockier and more closely resembles a bull mastiff.
They were being used for the most part in the south, as stock dogs, varmint killers and guard dogs, and they made good family dogs, and were good with people they knew. Both Teddy Roosevelt and Helen Keller owned American bulldogs. The RCA Victrola `Listening dog’ was an American bulldog, with the quaint characteristic of the breed demonstrated in their ad: cocking their heads to one side when listening to something interesting.
All right then. If you will put your notes away and open your blue exam books ....
They convince people to provide them with an enormous amount of food and an entire couch of their very own for the rest of their lives?
Mighty excellent dog breed post you generously spent your time on.
Thank you!
Okay, if all dogs descended from wolves, where did the variations come from? How do you cross breed a dog with another dog unless they’ve already changed? How many generations of breeding does it take to make a breed? Just questions....
What a guy!
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