the mal was NOT bred to fight other dogs, so it's ability to work undistracted by other dogs is NOT a failing but a plus.
I think this is part of what's at the heart of much of the trouble in the Pitbull world. You have people who love the look, or some aspect of the personality, but want a dog that, other than one or two characteristics, is entirely different than what the APBT has been bred to be over so many generations. They don't want an APBT, not really, so they want to change it, finding fault with the parts of the breed that don't suit them.
It's become a diverse type, for better or worse, and now we have to deal with it somehow, whether it's by dividing and labeling the different types . . . or something else. I don't know.
Ego gets in the way and everyone else's dogs/breed gets smack talked against because they don't live up to what someone else wants.
Do we all think our breed is the most special, wonderful on the planet? Sure! As it should be. But denigrating other breeds or types won't make ours more special or better. Yeah. My own dogs are the best.
FOR ME. And Adrianne's are the best.
FOR HER. Staci's for her, Pops' for him . . .
Some of the hardcore, APBT = real dog/AmStaff = fake APBT who get up in arms about dual registries and the public equating one with the other might stand back and take a good look at how much GOOD these "watered down shells" are doing for the Pitbull type's image in the public eye. They're far more commonly seen by the general public, being AKCed, and, overall, represent the type in a way that the public can accept, even embrace, not that the APBT couldn't, but face it, there's a real stigma attached -- unjustly -- to the name. I will wager that many of the people who recoiled from Tallulah and have called her an assortment of nasty names wouldn't have batted an eyelash if I'd told them she was a Staffy.