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Let's talk color in Pit Bulls. Pit Bulls are traditionally a performance breed. That means that they were originally bred based on how well they performed a certain task, not what they looked like. Color was probably the least important thing that oldtime breeders of Pit Bulls considered.
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www.realpitbull.com/myths.html
www.realpitbull.com/myths.html
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It is no different with pit-bull-type dogs. In the same way that Labradors were bred to retrieve birds, pit bulls were originally bred for dog fighting and bull and bear baiting. This does not, however, mean that fighting is the sole purpose of these breeds or...
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www.pbrc.net/breedinfo.html
www.pbrc.net/breedinfo.html
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They were originally bred to do bull baiting (when a dog grabs a bull by the nose and doesn't let go so that the person castrating a bull doesn't get gored). But then people turned it into a sport where the dog and bull would get into a pit...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_pit_bulls_originall...
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Pit bulls have been bred specifically to be aggressive. They're descended from the now- extinct old English "bulldogge," a big, tenacious breed used in the brutal early- nineteenth-century sport of bull baiting, in which rowdy spectators watched dogs tear apart an enraged bull.
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www.city-journal.org/html/9_2_scared_of_pit.html
www.city-journal.org/html/9_2_scared_of_pit.html
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Pit bulls were originally bred in 19th-century England to fight other dogs in pits. That's now rare, but Merle Blaine of the Etobicoke Humane Society in Toronto says it still happens. "People arrange fights in parks.
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www.cbc.ca/news/background/dogs/
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Many dogs were bred with a specific purpose; herding breeds tend to display nipping behaviors and scent-hounds follow their noses. Pit Bulls were originally bred for work that included bull-baiting and dog fighting.
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www.paw-rescue.org/petbulls.html
www.paw-rescue.org/petbulls.html
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Pit Bulls are called Pit Bulls because they were originally bred to fight in pits like raging bulls! The dogs were pit against each other. Accordin..., Leslie Siegel ... Are Pit Bulls man's best friend or murderous beast?
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www.helium.com/tm/496062/bulls-called-bulls-because
www.helium.com/tm/496062/bulls-called-bulls-because
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The dog that we now recognize as the pit bull was originally bred in the British Isles early 100's to 'bait' bulls. These matches were held for the entertainment of the struggling classes; a source of relief from the tedius and brutal way of life suffered by many commoners during that time.
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www.badrap.org/rescue/breed.cfm
www.badrap.org/rescue/breed.cfm
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There are more pit bulls than ever before in Seattle. Originally bred for fighting, the breed is now the fourth-most-popular in the city, and that worries some people. ... Seattle's pit bull population has exploded in recent years, with the controversial dogs, originally bred for fighting, now the fourth-most-popular dog in...
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www.seattlepi.com/local/346345_pitbulls07.html
www.seattlepi.com/local/346345_pitbulls07.html
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