Message #577265

[Semmes]

Judge

Man I couldn’t tell ya what is going on with the AB nowadays nor in the last ten years. I quit keeping track...

The community used to have a message board just like this one. It was called true grit. Mike was a member. We all used to talk dogs and lines and the old school folks were on there. It was a wealth of history. I spent many years following shows and working dogs in different venues. Met most of the originators of the breed. Went thru a lot of dogs myself.

While I can look at a pedigree and tell you what my opinion is...sometimes I can see a dog and just puck out how it’s bred. It’s been ten years since I kept up.

Everyone went to Facebook after truegrit shut down. I don’t do Facebook.
I was kinda a pariah anyway because I went against the grain of a lot of the origin sales pitch thing. Just my humble beliefs.

Never sold an ab myself. But like you most I bought didn’t work out. Love the good ones and hate the bad ones, but most fall somewhere in between like most breeds. Especially a composite breed like the ab.

I will tell ya that the best ones I had were given to me for free or I paid very little comparatively to the market price....

There is a reason I breed my bull mutts now. Which are definitely not refined, especially at the snails pace I have breed them. But in defense, the American Bulldog had yet to be refined even after 60 years of line breeding mutts... Jmo

I’m kinda a Bulldog history buff after all these years. And I find the apbt history much more interesting.
A lot of those dogs in history, probably bull mutts themselves, didn’t rely on a lot of hype or history or family province. They just let true performance sort it out. Then bred on them and the performance of the offspring gave merit to the proceeding dog and do on until it gave merit to a line. Kinda how it should be done I suppose...