APBTs make excellent family companions and have always been noted for their love of children. This breed is eager to please and brimming over with enthusiasm. The essential characteristics of the American Pit Bull Terrier are strength, confidence, and zest for life. Balance and harmony of all parts are critical components of breed type.Įliminating Faults: Any disproportionate overdone characteristic (such as short legs, excessive bone or massive head or body) that would interfere with physical activity or working ability.ĭisqualifications: Unilateral or bilateral cryptorchid. This breed combines strength and athleticism with grace and agility and should never appear bulky or muscle-bound or fine-boned and rangy.Ībove all else, the APBT must have the functional capability to be a catch dog that can hold, wrestle (push and pull), and breathe easily while doing its job. The American Pit Bull Terrier comes in all colors and color patterns except merle. The relatively short tail is set low, thick at the base and tapers to a point. Ears are small to medium in size, high set, and may be natural or cropped. The head is of medium length, with a broad, flat skull, and a wide, deep muzzle. The length of the front leg (measured from point of elbow to the ground) is approximately equal to one-half of the dog’s height at the withers. The body is just slightly longer than tall, but bitches may be somewhat longer in body than dogs. This breed is both powerful and athletic. The American Pit Bull Terrier is a medium-sized, solidly built, short-coated dog with smooth, well-defined musculature.
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Bennett assigned UKC registration number 1 to his own APBT, Bennett’s Ring, in 1898.
The United Kennel Club was the first registry to recognize the American Pit Bull Terrier. Today, the American Pit Bull Terrier continues to demonstrate its versatility, competing successfully in Obedience, Rally Obedience, Tracking, Agility, Lure Coursing, Dock Jumping and Weight Pulls, as well as Conformation. The American Pit Bull Terrier’s many talents did not go unnoticed by farmers and ranchers who used their APBTs as catch dogs for semi-wild cattle and hogs, to hunt, to drive livestock, and as family companions.
Immigrants brought these bull-and-terrier crosses to the United States. The result was a dog that embodied all of the virtues attributed to great warriors: strength, indomitable courage, and gentleness with loved ones. Sometime during the nineteenth century, dog fanciers in England, Ireland and Scotland began to experiment with crosses between Bulldogs and Terriers, looking for a dog that combined the gameness of the terrier with the strength and athleticism of the Bulldog. UKC is unwilling to condone the validity of using exaggerated specimens of this breed in a breeding program and, to preserve its health and vibrancy, cautions judges about awarding wins to these representatives. Characteristics that very clearly indicate crossing with other breeds are not to be tolerated. Quality is never to be sacrificed in favor of size. Any departure from the following should be considered a fault, and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree and its effect upon the health and welfare of the dog and on the dog’s ability to perform its traditional work.
The American Pit Bull Terrier has a long history of being a physically active, muscular, very agile breed, and has maintained breed type for over 150 years. The goals and purposes of this breed standard include: to furnish guidelines for breeders who wish to maintain the quality of their breed and to improve it to advance this breed to a state of similarity throughout the world and to act as a guide for judges.īreeders and judges have the responsibility to avoid any conditions or exaggerations that are detrimental to the health, welfare, essence and soundness of this breed, and must take the responsibility to see that these are not perpetuated.
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