If what you call Pit Bulls are different from what we call Pit bulls
then your agitating people here to exterminate them is misplaced and dangerous.
Btw what’s a pig dog?
> Btw what’s a pig dog?
A pig dog is a large mutt of any breed that is specifically trained to scent and hunt wild pigs. They need to have a good crushing bite and a fair bit of weight, lots of stamina and good hunting sense. And they need to be trainable because you do not want any mucking around in the bush with untrained dogs. They are entirely unsuitable for pets.
On that basis you can imagine that you could cut-and-paste a variety of dogs together to get the right mix. Rhodesian Ridgeback is often a good place to start.
They usually hunt in pairs, sometimes in threes or more, and the objective is to run a wild pig / boar to ground. The dogs get hold of the pig grabbing whatever they can — a leg, the testicles, an ear — and hold on for dear life, while the hunter kills the pig, usually with a knife.
It is a really noisy affair, as you can imagine.
Almost always another hunter will cover the scene with a firearm “just in case”, because wild pigs are very dangerous. Once killed the pig is usually gutted and castrated on the spot, so as not to spoil the meat and to make the carcase lighter to carry. The pig dogs often get the guts as a reward.
The hunting process is really well-described in Alan Duff’s “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?”
> If what you call Pit Bulls are different from what we call Pit bulls then your agitating people here to exterminate them is misplaced and dangerous.
Is it that, though? Or more likely is it that owners of Staffordshire Terriers, Boston Terriers, American Bull Terriers and other similar Terriers persist on calling their dogs “Pit Bulls” when in fact they are nothing of the sort: they are proper breeds that have had undesirable traits bred out of them.
I’ve said many times that a Pit Bull is a dangerous mungrel mutt, and that it is not a breed. I suspect that Pit Bulls — the real ones used in fighting — in America are probably not too different to the ones here: mixed breed, vicious, unsuitable for pets or indeed for anything other than dog fighting.
If I’m right then the real answer is for owners and breeders to strongly differentiate themselves from the vicious fighting dogs, because they are giving your dogs an unfairly bad reputation.