#Akc american pitbull terrier registration#
Guidelines on this newly emerging "sport." Dog Registration in the Nineteenth CenturyĪbout dog fighting changed and so did the UKC (United Kennel Club), by abandoning
The United Kennel Club was formed to provide some At that point in the history of the U.S., dog fighting wasĬonsidered a sport and in the dog world, to receive their “championship” they Were acknowledged by the United Kennel Club in 1898 as their very firstīreed. Of people and property in their respective countries.īoth breeds look similar to each other, but theĭifferences lie in the dog registries that recognized the breeds at the time. Old style Bulldogs and old style terriers that were present in the 1800s bothĭeveloped for bull baiting, dog fighting, farm work and to serve as a guardian (APBT) and the American Staffordshire Terrier (AST) descended from a group of The AKC is 110% behind anyone who supports its members and has been aggressively pushing an anti-BSL position for decades, to support its bull breed members.Breeds can get their ears cropped in the United States. More than that, there's a disincentive to doing so, in that it would require a major confrontation between those two breed clubs - the AmStaff and the APBT clubs - over whose version of the breed's standard is correct. So there's never been a reason for the AKC to recognize the APBT. This is not a unique situation in the purebred dog fancy, which has a really tiresome habit of already tiny microgroups breaking into even smaller microgroups over tiny points of disagreement. The two breeds were the same dogs, so are really a single breed. In the meantime, the pit bull breeders had founded their own registry, the United Kennel Club, which still exists, and founded their breed as the American Pit Bull Terrier. They revived when the pit breeders renamed the things "American Staffordshire" as this was suitably English and didn't smell quite so much like lower-classes who fought dogs. When the pit bull breeders wanted in on the sport of tracking pedigrees, measuring hock angles and having judges fondle dog balls, the AKC breeders fainted.
The AKC was created by wealthy Northeastern US men to track the pedigrees of their dogs, which were mostly sporting breeds - setters, pointers, retrievers - and the AKC was modeled on the UK's Kennel Club, just as the wealthy American society was modeled on the upper crust of the UK. R/PitBullLogic: Because nutters just don't make sense.
#Akc american pitbull terrier archive#
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