English bull terriers are still being used to this day in the American dog pit and are extremely pit able. These lines are game bred and not KC show lines descending mainly from the bull terrier stock of legendary American dog man Walter Komosinski and Irish badger stock exported to the USA. One line that is doing well descends from Stormer's dam the "Old Bull Bitch" You can read about the English bull terrier and its sporting uses in my book.
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Pakistani dogs.
Firstly I would like to say as the webmaster I find Bear baiting in Pakistan horrific and immoral. Removing a bear's teeth and claws before combat is in my opinion a sick activity and serves no purpose either for testing the gameness of the dogs, or any form of pest control. It has no purpose except for torture of an animal. Although I also condemn the Bear baiting of Elizabethan England at least the teeth of the bear were not removed allowing it to have its basic weapons.
The Pakistani dog men have a particularly strong link to the Hink's English bull terrier, and many of their dogs are either descended from Hink's dogs but have evolved into separate breeds or remain almost the same as it. There are many in Pakistan and India who say that the Indian Bull Terrier or Gull Ter is actually the original Hink's dog. The resemblance is striking and these dogs were originally imported into this area by British military officers, diplomats or gentlemen from the landed the classes; before the partition. It is interesting to note that there are no brindle bull terrier dogs or are at the least very uncommon. The two top pictures were donated by shah and are in Pakistan.
(picture on bottom left is of full pedigree EBT in Australia taking on very large wild boar single handedly). The picture on the bottom right is of an EBT and APBT fighting in Russia. The English bull terrier is a very popular fighting dog in Russia where it has been game bred for generations unlike the show type in the west that has not been game bred for very many years.
