Jeff Borchardt - "Until the late 19th century, the only pedigree that mattered for any bulldog was its fighting pedigree – the list of kills it had committed on some other bulldog in the fighting pit."

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Jeff is a self proclaimed expert on pit bulls in his mind when in actual fact he's a second rate Dj that doesn't earn enough money to feed his family off spinning so he does "casual" work with 'friends" and two years ago he left his son with one of these so called "friends" with strict instructions not to let her "boxer" mixes anywhere near his son unfortunately for his son (Rip Dax) the baby sitter couldn't follow these straight forward simple instructions and took the 14 month old into the back yard with her dogs where the dogs allegedly attacked the child.

Jeff vowed to get revenge on all pit bulls following the death of his son despite the fact the dogs involved were mixed breed mutts with any number of breeds in the  mix below you'll see one of his latest posts which clearly indicate and affirm he's not a canine expert.

Jeff Borchardt Until the late 19th century, the only pedigree that mattered for any bulldog was its fighting pedigree – the list of kills it had committed on some other bulldog in the fighting pit. It wasn’t until early in the 20th century, as dogfighting declined, that the breeders of these dogs sought other ways to sell them. They turned to the new kennel clubs, which had been established to cater to the upper class hobby of breeding dogs for shows. After much lobbying, the 1930s saw the registration and re-branding of the pit fighting bulldogs by various kennel clubs, always with a name intended to hide the type’s bloody history (eg, changing this molosser’s name from bulldog to ‘Staffordshire terrier’). Since that first deception, many new breed clubs have arisen, dedicated to producing slight physical variation in the fighting bulldog so as to claim a new pit bull type ‘breed’ all their own (eg, American Bully, Pit Bull XXL, Olde English Bulldogge, American Bulldog).

All of these dogs in fact come from the same limited gene pool, all of them retaining both the physical and the behavioral traits that have always typified the fighting bulldog. Pasting a new ‘breed’ label on yet another slight variation of the pit fighting bulldog does not change this fact.

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WHY DO WE CALL THEM ‘PIT BULL TYPE DOGS’? - Daxton’s Friends

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Having researched this subject extensively when breed specific legislation was introduced locally many years ago and having continued the battle against this discriminatory and mostly useless legislation for more then fifteen years I recognized instantly that this post was just another in a long list of intentionally deceptive and dangerous posts from this so called expert.

American Pit Bull Terrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Pit Bull Terrier was created by breeding Old English Terriersand Old English Bulldogs together to produce a dog that combined the gameness of the terrier with the strength and athleticism of the bulldog.^[4] These dogs were bred in England, and arrived in the United States where they became the direct ancestors of the American Pitbull Terrier.

Now anyone with any knowledge of the breed knows the legitimate Apbt's that were bred trained and conditioned to fight were not aggressive to humans after all every fight event had nominated handlers that were in the pit with the dogs and quite often had to intervene during the progress of the fight and the simple fact is if a dog attacks a human it's most likely a dog that looks like a pit bull as opposed to actually being a legitimate fighting dog.

Where Did Pit Bulls Originate? - Pets

American Ancestors

The original pit bulls were brought to America by British immigrants around 1870. Their qualities of tenacity and athleticism appealed to farmers, who put them to work as hunting dogs. Since bull baiting was no longer acceptable by this time, smaller specimens were in favor as speed was valued over raw power. In the 1930s, a divergence between the pit bulls happened as breeders began to use the dogs for different purposes. The American Staffordshire terrier was removed from the pit fighting circuit and was bred for conformation, while the pit bull was bred for farm work, so two distinct types developed. These two types are what are known today as the American pit bull terrier and the American Staffordshire terrier.

The myth that pit bulls were only bred for fighting is regularly used by pit bull haters pushing their nonsense legislation whereas the truth is pit bulls were bred to be farm dogs and on occasion were even called "nanny dogs" as early settler pioneers felt better letting the children roam their farms if the trusty pit bull was with them.

American Pit Bull Terrier Dog Breed Information and Pictures

Developed from the Bull and Terrier types of yesteryear, the American Pit Bull Terrier was bred as an all-around farm dog, working the farms as a cattle/hog dog. Some chose to turn their talents into the sport of pit-fighting.


The fact is this man is a bereaved father seeking revenge on a breed/type of dog that wasn't even involved in the tragedy involving his son put quite simply he's no expert on anything the legislation he promotes only seeks to protect our community from dangerous dogs that are or look like pit bulls but the reality is the one person has been killed per month every month for the last ten years by non pit bull type dogs indicating that we need legislation that covers all breeds and types and not just pit bulls.


more to come.....