I was asked to post this over here. Someone thought it might be of interest even to a non-Pit Bull board. *grin*
This was something that I've always kinda wanted to see done. There are people who insist that the APBT and the AmStaff are the same dog, and that if you slim down an AmStaff, you'll get an ADBA-ready APBT. And there are others who feel like although both breeds come from common heritage, the last 70+ years have caused them to diverge sufficiently so that they're not the same breed anymore. And then there is the sticky situation that is the UKC ring, where AmStaffs are registered as APBTs and are more prevalent than dogs resembling the old gladiators.
Anyway. I went through and located as many pictures as I could of the current top-winning dogs from each of the big 3 registries. (Disclaimer: The comparisons are not exact -- ie, while the first set are all #1 dogs, the 2nd set might not all be #2s, and so on. The UKC only gives a top 10, and when I couldn't find one of them, I had to use a winning dog from 2007.) I think the side-by-side comparison is rather eye-opening. Conditioning and ring training versus type? Also note the color bias. The ADBA dogs are varied in color (and the only registry with rednose represented in the top numbers), whereas blue fawn seems to be the big thing in UKC, and fawn or brindle in the AKC. Also interesting to note that all the UKC/AKC dogs are cropped, while the ADBA dogs are largely natural.
(Bear with the load times. I wanted to keep the pics as clear as possible, so I used PNG format, which is larger.)
This was something that I've always kinda wanted to see done. There are people who insist that the APBT and the AmStaff are the same dog, and that if you slim down an AmStaff, you'll get an ADBA-ready APBT. And there are others who feel like although both breeds come from common heritage, the last 70+ years have caused them to diverge sufficiently so that they're not the same breed anymore. And then there is the sticky situation that is the UKC ring, where AmStaffs are registered as APBTs and are more prevalent than dogs resembling the old gladiators.
Anyway. I went through and located as many pictures as I could of the current top-winning dogs from each of the big 3 registries. (Disclaimer: The comparisons are not exact -- ie, while the first set are all #1 dogs, the 2nd set might not all be #2s, and so on. The UKC only gives a top 10, and when I couldn't find one of them, I had to use a winning dog from 2007.) I think the side-by-side comparison is rather eye-opening. Conditioning and ring training versus type? Also note the color bias. The ADBA dogs are varied in color (and the only registry with rednose represented in the top numbers), whereas blue fawn seems to be the big thing in UKC, and fawn or brindle in the AKC. Also interesting to note that all the UKC/AKC dogs are cropped, while the ADBA dogs are largely natural.
(Bear with the load times. I wanted to keep the pics as clear as possible, so I used PNG format, which is larger.)