The guy who's planning a pit x mali breeding, early next year, said this: ''I've got a line of pits established traits of being hard headed in protection, game to hunt and balanced family dogs

Unfortunately a lot taken away but we have the core stock still to keep it going

Mali is only to disguise them like a wolf in a sheeps blanket.............I've got a line of pits established traits of being hard headed in protection, game to hunt and balanced family dogs

Unfortunately a lot taken away but we have the core stock still to keep it going

Mali is only to disguise them like a wolf in a sheeps blanket.........One of the offspring from my pit to bandog breedings was sent to Germany for wild boar hunting

Last I head he was doing well lost contact at the moment..........

A mate in Wales has had a few that he uses for badgers etc.''

 

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Yeah, the modern herder types have been worked and tested, but there are still traditional types of dog which do a different kind of job to the police-style malis or GSDs.

 

Tracy Wessel I think in looking at history, we have to also consider what "improvements" were intended going forward. Some "improvements" that were intended were not particularly desirable and perhaps others were. But it's clear that the dogs of yesterday were essential in daily life. For some of us they still are. For example those of us, like myself, with farms, or with service needs, hunting/search needs, or even guardian needs... but truly the old farm/patrol dog had many jobs, and I doubt their more defensive traits are as deeply understood or accepted in today's society - and probably should be appreciated MORE because they are still valuable.

 

 

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