The American Pit Bull Terrier (APBT) is a medium-sized, absolutely built, abbreviate haired dog whose aboriginal ancestors came from England and Ireland. It is a affiliate of the molosser brand group.
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Characteristics
Appearance
The American Pit Bull diverges in actualization from the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, accepting beneath bi-weekly ancestry in the face and body. The American Pit Bull is boilerplate sized, accepting a abbreviate covering and bland categorical beef structure, but should never arise beefy or muscle-bound. Its eyes are annular to almond shaped, and its aerial are baby to boilerplate in breadth and can be accustomed or cropped. The appendage is hardly blubbery and tapers to a point. The covering is glossy, smooth, short, and hardly annealed and can be any blush except merle. The brand ranges from a acme of about 17 to 22 in (43 to 56 cm) at shoulders, and weighs amid 30 and 78 lb (14 and 35 kg).
American Pit Bull Terrier (APBT)
Temperament
Pit Bulls are about friendly, even about strangers. Abounding accept able instincts to hunt and appropriate bodies and added beat creatures, including deer and livestock (prey drive). As with any dog breed, able training and socialization at an aboriginal age is a must. According to the UKC, "aggressive behavior against bodies is accidental of the brand and awful undesirable" but "because a lot of APBTs display some akin of dog assailment and because of its able physique, the APBT requires an buyer who will anxiously associate and accordance alternation the dog."
American Pit Bull Terriers about accept a lot of activity and account from exercise and dispatch to approach their activity appropriately and abstain acceptable frustrated, bored, or destructive.
Health
The boilerplate activity assumption of an American Pit Bull Terrier is about twelve to fourteen years authoritative them one of the best active ample breeds. The brand tends to accept a college than boilerplate accident of hip dysplasia. They may aswell ache from patella problems, thyroid dysfunction and complete affection defects. American Pit Bull Terriers with adulterate covering colors accept a college accident of derma allergies.
They are actual decumbent to Demodex Mange due to their abbreviate coat. There are two altered types of Demodex Mange, namely Localized and Generalized Demodex. Although it is not catching it is sometimes difficult to amusement due to immunodeficiency in some puppies. The Localized affection are usually absent of hair in baby patches on the arch and anxiety of the puppies. This blazon will usually alleviate as the puppies abound and their allowed systems are stronger. The additional blazon which is Generalized Demodex mange is a added astringent anatomy of the sickness. The affection are added astringent and cover accident of hair throughout the absolute anatomy and may aswell be scabby and bloody. Generalized are usually ancestral due to immunodeficiency genes that are anesthetized on from Sire and Dam to their puppies. A simple derma abrading analysis will acquiesce the vet to analyze if the dog has demodex mange. The a lot of broadly acclimated adjustment to amusement Demodex Mange is ivermectin injections or articulate medications. Since Demodex Mange lives in the hair follicles of the dog, Ivermectin will annihilate these mites at the source.
Activities
Being intelligent, able-bodied dogs, American Pit Bull Terriers excel in abounding dog sports, including weight pulling, dog agility, flyball, allurement coursing, and avant-garde accordance competition. Some APBTs accept been accepted to do able-bodied in schutzhund as well. Out of the 66 dogs who accept becoming UKC "superdog" cachet (by accepting championship titles in conformation, obedience, agility, and weightpull), 23 accept been American Pit Bull Terriers, and addition 13 were Staffordshire Bull Terriers, a abutting about of the APBT. The American Pit Bull Terrier is a alive dog, and is acceptable for a advanced ambit of alive disciplines due to their intelligence, top energy, and endurance. In the United States they accept been acclimated as seek and accomplishment dogs, badge dogs assuming narcotics and explosives detection, Border Patrol dogs, audition dogs to accommodate casework to the deaf, as able-bodied as accepted account dogs.