Around certain groups of people my dog is a plain ole Red Heeler not a Pit mix and this seems to make him much less dangerous.
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If Wikipedia is to be believed, the ‘Staffordshire’ moniker was applied to the regular ol’ American Pitbull Terrier, in an effort to legitimize it as a breed; so the Staffis you see have been refined and bred for the show ring since the 1930s, but most people would consider them ‘pit bulls’. Registered APBTs have been bred for pulling, which means they’ve gotten small and compact; the pullers I’ve seen were barely bigger than a Jack Russell Terrier; the pit bulls one sees on the street vary so wildly in size, shape, and temperment it’s hardly fair to categorize them all together.