oldgixxer
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The old world(Ireland) original fighting pit dogs were small,between 30-45lbs. Remember,the poor people fought them in order to put food on their family's table;they couldnt feed their family if they had to feed a 100lb fighting dog lol.The dogs are beautiful, and the link did educate me some. The average pb is usually 40-80 lbs, so a 100+ pounder is a rarity. I have never seen one that large before your pics, or in person and I suspect that if you could trace the lineage back far enough you'd see a larger breed introduced somewhere in the line. From what I understand, they were bred to be medium sized, powerful and agile dogs. At 100+ lbs, likely the agility will suffer.
All in all, like said above, any dog not socialized/trained properly will eventually misbehave. It all goes back to the owners and many pit bull owners have had the dogs for all the wrong reasons. We all know someone who never should have owned a dog let alone an aggressive breed. Its those people who are at fault for the dogs bad rep.
Over the years when they were brought over to America,just like everything else here we always go for the "bigger is better" mentality and the breeders started breeding for size¬ so much for conformity. The bigger APBT's were used primarily for weight pulling competition etc.
For example,my male Junior (the first dog on the link I posted for you) was by far the largest in his litter. Out of his litter of 6 dogs,they all weigh in now between 60-70lbs where he is now 100lbs. So,my breeder is planning on a new line using him as the foundation for XXL Blue pits.
Enuff rambling from the newbie,thanks for clickin the link tho
This is prolly one of THE most famous XXL pits,Icon from Xtreme Bullys. Last I heard he was pushing 145lbs of solid muscle at almost 2rs old
