Bulldog men!! Share your knowledge.

Here is what I have seen with bulldogs I have raised or been around for the last 27 years of my life. I have commented about this before a few years back and I think it applies here. What most people call gamebred apbt's and what I consider are different right off the bat but regardless of that here is my experience with them.

Remember first all dogs are different and there behavior kinda follows a line like this individual/line/breed. Next you are trying to get it to not do something it has been bred well over a 100 years to do, and culled very very hard for anything but that. So there are different lines of true gamebred apbts that are known for throwing super hot screaming dogs, and then their are lines that are just as good but that throw much calmer and what sometimes might even be mistaken for passive dogs. For example I have seen mayday and or redboy lines that throw the crazy on fire dogs that have to be separated at 8 weeks and I have seen other lines like a line of frisco dogs that throw more calm dogs. Just examples and I am sure you could find the opposite for both as well. Also the more generations removed they are from actual intended use they are, the better your chances are of having a more controllable dog.

I have said this many many times on here before other than the "cool" factor there is really no reason to use a true gamebred bulldog for a catchdog. There are so many other better options out there. First off a gbapbt will most likely eventually get hot, and even if you are on top of it, the minute you let off of them they will revert or if put in the right situation like a growly cur dog starting a fight might flip their switch on and then good luck getting it turned back off. It can be done but really why would you want to put in all of that work if you don't have to??? Next a lot of them even if under control make crappy catch dogs because they want to fight and kill the hog instead of just holding it. That was the case with one of my bitches I tried a couple of times. She would get on an ear but as soon as the hog started to calm down or slow down she would go to shaking out her hold until she ripped off ear or would let go and just shoot in for the throat.

In my opinion a true gamebred apbt needs to be thought of as a loaded gun, they can be effective as a tool but not everybody should have one and not everybody knows how to use one. And it could go off at any time no matter how you raised it or how much you think you know about apbt's. I never 100% trust them with other dogs and I always have a break stick on me just in case.

Loftin good luck with yours but if he is on, you will have to spend a whole lot of time like previously mentioned to get it turned back off and then you will need to be ready in case he has another change of heart. I hope some of my jabbering above helps your overall understanding better. Loftin you sure have some good looking dogs bro, and the best to you and your pack.