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Web masters book on game dogs. Click on the book for more details
Free articles for download Match report of Irish staffordshire bull terrier champion Psycho versus English bull terrier champion Stormer (historical interest). . Hybrid vigour (heterosis) as related to game dogs (battle crosses) and working dogs. indigenous pit dogs of the British Isles.
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Note on the confusion between Irish Staffordshire bull terriers and American pit bull terriers. Irish staffordshire bull terriers are not American pit bull terriers, they are either Irish working strains derived from the English staffordshire bull terrier, or the Psycho strain derived from working English bull terrier badger dogs and working Irish lines of Staffordshire bull terrier. They only share their common ancestor the British Pit Bull Terrier. America already has its own strain of pit bull terrier (derived from the British pit bull terrier), which has the American pre-fix in front of it. These days the American pit bull terrier tends to be much larger than the British and Irish dogs that is originated from (some even over 80 pounds). Reports show that most of the British and Irish dogs being fought at well under 40 pounds and even as low as 25 pounds. Similar to the weights that Cockney Charlie and others originally matched dogs at, when they were first exported from the British Isles to America.
If you would like more information on the Sporting Staffordshire Bull Terriers then I suggest that you get a copy of this book (by clicking on the picture) which has a large chapter devoted to the subject. The front cover features FFB's Jack a great example of the" sporting Staffordshire Bull Terrier. Web masters book on game dogs. Click on the book for more details
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