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In reply to the discussion: Maryland court finds pit bulls are 'inherently dangerous' [View all]guitar man
(15,996 posts)I got my first APBT when I was 9 because I saw Petey on the Lil Rascals and wanted a dog like him. 39 years later I'm raising APBT#17 and have never had an incident with any of my dogs being viscious. And while they are very athletic, they are not "huge" dogs. Female APBTs generally run 35-45 lb and males Typically 50-65lb. 80lb is a really large APBT.
These "breeders" advertising 125-140lb "pit bulls" are selling dogs that are bred up with Mastiff and Presa Canario stock and they certainly aren't genuine American Pit Bull Terriers no matter what they try to tell you. I've seen some of them and can spot the bullshit a mile off. Feet are all wrong, dewclaws on the hind legs and so on and so forth. The UKC made a sweep of a lot of kennels a while back and de-certified a bunch of them that were hanging papers on such dogs.
However that doesn't stop some assholes from hanging bogus paper, there's always some fraudulent asshole out there pushing their "super dogs" , it's just the nature of the dog breeding world...always has been