Jeff Borchardt is not a dog expert

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He thinks he is. He’s not. He proves it a lot. Once again, this is why no one of any intelligence will EVER listen to him.
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The American Bulldog is actually an offshoot of Mastiffs (which also are NOT pit bulls). This moron makes my eye twitch.
If you would like to read a VERY good article about the differences between “pit bulls” and “American Bulldogs” read this. This article goes in detail about the differences between the dogs both in history, use, breeding, size and physical conformation.
Here’s a sample:
The term “Pitbull” refers to three breeds of dog: The American Pit Bull Terrier, the American Staffordshire Terrier, the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and crossbred dogs between any of the three. In an effort to create small, very strong, agile, and tenacious working dogs for cattle management, all three dogs, as well as their genetic progenitors, were similarly developed by crossbreeding various Terrier dogs to Bulldogs.
The Bulldog most commonly used was the short, squashed nosed lapdog, known as the English Bulldog, and NOT the American Bulldog. This is an important historical distinction. The English Bulldog of that time, was a direct and recent descendent of fighting dogs, a sport in the process of being outlawed in England. Those English Bulldogs – or what was in that era in England and Ireland, simply called a Bulldog, bred to equally aggressive Terrier specimens, created the original, and previously much more aggressively bred Pitbull.
In contrast, an American Bulldog is a Mastiff offshoot, cousin to the Bullmastiff and descendent of other Mastiff bred dogs. The American Bulldog’s Mastiff bred progenitors were not primarily used in dog fighting at all, but for hunting, homestead protection and cattle management. Obviously in more recent American history, both dogs were once misused in dog fighting, however, among those well known characters doing the dog fighting in early 1900s America, the American Bulldog was considered not fit for the sport, because of its much lesser instinctive inclination towards dog-on-dog fighting. In other words, the American Bulldog was not successfully bred for dog fighting, even by those who tried it.
In any event, the Pitbull is a Terrier, most typically with all the associated and relatively well known “small dog” tendencies of the dogs in the Terrier group, tendencies not typically shared with the larger, and somewhat less energetic American Bulldogs.