Classic bull terrier journal Sponsored by Global Reach Bull Terriers Editor: John Roodt Design by Ina July 2010 Volume 18 Are we as breeders not perhaps at fault? By John Roodt A man takes his Bullie to the vet This Bull Terrier was money making business. and says "My dog recently found without Perhaps kennels should is cross-eyed. Is food and water in Cape be limited to only breed there anything you Town. We are told that at most 2 litters per can do for him?" The vet says, "Well, this Bull Terrier was year? We find it hard to let's have a look at bred by a very well believe that each and him." So the vet known kennel. This is a every Bull Terrier puppy picks the dog up sad situation and should born eventually makes it while examining his eyes. Finally he never be allowed to hap- to an ideal home. The says "I'm going to pen. Bull Terrier on this have to put him photo surely speaks for down." "What? Are we not perhaps itself. How many breed- Just because he is breeding to many Bull cross-eyed?" "No, ers have contact with the breeder……….? We Terriers per year? Just Bull Terrier puppies they then hear they have lost because he is maybe for some kennels really, really have sold over the last 3 contact with the breeder heavy” the financial implications years? Not to many of or the breeder has not count more than the well them can with honesty got space etc. being of the dog. say they check up on Inside this issue: their Bull Terriers bred Thelma Venter rescued Have we got a Breeder the Bull Terrier in this Comments on FP 2 watch dog or an accred- by them on a regular ba- Story sis. photo and herewith some ited breeding system in comments from our BT History 2 place? We simply can not We have been to homes Facebook profile with allow unscrupulous where people want to get regards to this poor Bull Going to the 3 breeders to have litter Dogs rid of there Bull Terriers. Terrier: after litter which ulti- When asked why do they BT History 3 mately ends up in a not contact the original Continue on Page 2 BT History 4 Ch. Carradice Flying Bullet who Inside Story 5 What happened to nowadays lives in Venezuela. This theInside dog Story that ate6 photo was taken when he was 4 nothing but garlic? years old. He is now 8 years old and still in good health. His bark was much worse than his bite. Volume 18 Page 2 Are we as breeders not perhaps at fault? (All comments are unedited) Classic Bull Terrier Journal have too loose because Breeders are not in every way! responsibly at all and people don't get the Thelma real sad. A Bull Terrier from a information before they buy a Bullterrier. Judy Chasney very renowned breeder. Perhaps the time Information its required before people has come to expose these breeders! You I am in total agreement. Rescue groups here buy a Powerful Dog Like Bullterrier, Pit- make you sign an agreement to return the are doing a great job and hopefully it is bull, Staffordshire, etc. Breeders have to being noticed. Bully to them if you can not keep them. So be sure that the person its appropriated breeders should be just as responsible!!!!! Simonne Shapiro for this kind o Dogs, because they (Dog) need a lot of attention, love and a equili- Maru Afonso Castrillo why why why!!!! A breeder?!!! What has brated guide. become of him and what legal action can Yes is not easy ti find the right owner for a be taken against him? He must be pun- Trudie Malan bull terrier. ished!!!! House checks before is not the only an- Enrique Hiram Burgos Figueroa Classic Bull Terrier Journal swer. They should do a regular 6-month interval house check. Puppies are always that's right cute and a novelty, but once they grow The problem is breeders sell dogs without Janice Zadwick Monson doing proper screening. However proper up, people loose interest and the dogs are screening of the prospective buyer often left out on their own. A naughty bully is a If you can't keep your bully and your means nothing. It should be the breeders frustrated bully looking for LOVE and breeder won't help you out, be sure to con- responsibility to enquire about the well ATTENTION. tact your local rescue organization for help. being of the dogs he/she bred and of We love all the bullies. Here's a link to our Breeders who sell Bull Terriers and then course the buyers must also be allowed to rescue based in Northern California, USA. return the dogs to the original breeder if not willing to take them back when the for some reason their ... See morecircum- owners have to move or can not afford to Thelma Venter stances change and they can not keep the have them anymore is in our opinion dogs anymore. Breeders come up with wrong. When you are the breeder of a For all the many years we have been breed- excuses that they do not have space for the dog then it is your responsibility to en- ing and showing I strongly feel that if breed- dogs when the poor dogs fall on hard sure that the dog is going to have a good ers are not willing to look after their chil- times.......Totally unacceptable!!! live. If you are unwilling to do so then do dren and breed selectively they should be not breed dogs!! shot. Cheryl Gabriel Oscar Hernandez Sorry for that but we do to many rescue stories- Yes how many of them do house checks Absolutely right! iam not breeder but i before selling the dog have to say, that people have to get a lot How can you rear a litter next to your bed of information before to take the decis- bottle feed them for two weeks. Love them Oscar Hernandez sion of buying a Powerfull Dog like a till they go and then desert them tells a lot Really bad situation, the dogs are the most Bullterrier. People have to be resposible about the breeders character Bull Terrier's Histories Now an affectionate companion, the Bull under one's coat at the arrival of the ers, among which the Manchester Terrier Terrier arose from the "Bull and Terrier" police. (or Black and Tan Terrier) - before it was crosses, originally bred for dog-fighting. dwarfed down. When bullbaiting was outlawed in England These dogs also had to be more agile and light as the dog fights usually lasted This Bull and Terrier cross combined the in 1835 the "sport" of dog-fighting became longer than bull fights. This new type of alertness and agility of the Terrier with popular and a smaller dog breed was fighting dog was created by crossing the the power, tenacity and high threshold of needed, that could be more easily hidden older type bulldog with different Terri- pain of the Bulldog. Continue on Page 3 Volume 18 Page 3 Going to the Dogs: What Can Shy Dogs Teach Us About Longevity? ScienceDaily (May 14, 2010) — Ac- and longevity represent greatly what is expenditure. The late Don Thomas said, cording to a new study by a Quebec predicted by the "pace-of-life" syndrome "It is hard to imagine how an aggressive research team, there are strong corre- hypothesis. personality could be adaptive if it lacked lations between dog breeds' typical the energetic and metabolic machinery to personalities, how long they A team led by Vincent Careau, a PhD back up the threats. Simply put, live, and how much food they 100 pound weaklings don't kick eat. sand in weight-lifters' faces and survive in nature." Through domestication, hu- mans unwittingly initiated an This study, published in the June artificial selection experiment 2010 issue of the American Natu- on personality. We know that ralist , contributes to the growing breeders selected individual body of research revealing that dogs for reproduction based personality is related to many not only on physical appear- crucial aspects of an animal's life - ance but also on specific behav- - such as its energy needs, growth ioral traits -- such as activity, rate, age of first reproduction, aggressiveness, and docility -- and lifespan -- and takes us a step to shape each breed to a specific task. As student at University of Sherbrooke, gath- closer to understanding the evolutionary a result, some breeds excel in tracking ered data on many aspects of dog biology causes and consequences of different per- while others excel in herding, guarding, published in disparate fields of study such sonality types. This study hints at the fighting, or human companionship. as psychology, longevity, and veterinary existence of underlying genetic linkages Other traits, such as longevity or energy research. The information was well between personality, metabolism, and expenditure, were presumably not tar- known in the respective research do- longevity -- meaning that selection for geted for selection. So the correlations mains, yet they were never put together. personality traits also invokes uninten- obtained suggest that metabolism and By doing so, the authors show that obedi- tional results on energetic and life history lifespan changed as by-products of selec- ent breeds -- on average -- live longer traits. tion on personality traits. These connec- than disobedient breeds. They also show tions between behavior, metabolism, that aggressive breeds have higher energy Bull Terrier's Histories (Continues from Page 2) It got the reputation of a 'canine gladia- For his entire life James Hinks only bred elegant look and gait and longer legs.