American Pit
Bull Terrier Official Standard
(FIAPBT).(Last revision
All standards created for any
animal species, have a basis weight when they were developed. In any animal species
you can come across with different standards, which were created by experts for
each particular species, for example :
Racehorses have a suitable standard to set an ideal functionality in these
animals, this way, you can approximate as much as possible in their morphology
to be the suitable one in order to fulfill their
mission, which is to run faster than other breeds of racehorses.
The same thing happens with
any other animal species that humans entrust any kind of task; this way , we will have to create necessarily the standards to
make them be the best, in the different disciplines that humans assign the
animal species to be.
For this reason, American Pit
Bull Terriers being the working breed dogs par excellence, those breeders who
consider themselves professionals of the breed, should breed APBT samples which
were in the official standard of American Dog Breeders Association (ADBA) or in
the International Federation of the APBT (FIAPBT).Samples which are in the
official standard, will have a guaranteed functionality to develop any kind of
job, since the offical standard of the APBT is
designed to get the best performance
working in any kind of job, however strange it may seem and always to benefit
the humankind.These extraordinary performances, are
also movable why not, to canine sports.
HEAD: an exaggerated head, will simply make it bear an excessive weight which
undermines its functionality at the time of performing a work.
An APBT for any purpose with
a well-proportioned head, must look the two thirds its shoulder width, and be a
25% wider in its cheeks than in the neck to the base of the skull. From the
back of the skull to the stop, it must be the same distance as from the stop to
the tip of the nose.The snout must be straight and
square–shaped.
The depth from the top of the
head to the lowest part of tha jaw is important. The
jaw is closed by the muscle of the temporal fossa,
making the pressure the animal needs over the coronoid
process.
The head will be wedge-shaped
when viewed from top or from side, when it is viewed from the front it is
round. Dogs with excessive lips are not accepted.
EYES: The eyes are round,
separated and situated in a low position.All colours
are admitted and uneven eyes (eyes with different colours in the same amimal ).
TEETH: scissors closure, pliers closure and inverse scissors closure are admitted,
never enogmathism. The inverse scissors closure or “prognathism”, even though it is the most effective teeth
closure to perform the prey work,
mustn’t be neither excessive nor caused by the
displacement of the jawbones, because if so, it will be considered as a
fault.
Of the three admitted closure, the most
effective to develop the work of the prey, is the inverse scissors closure or even with a small separation between the teeth of above
with respect to those of down.
NECK: The neck must be
strongly muscular to the base of the skull.
BACK TRAIN: This is the
driving train of any four-legged animal. An 80% of an APBT work is developed in
its hips and back legs.
A long and lean hip is
extremely important, because it will provide a better support point to the
femur, and this one must be shorter than the shinbone. The hip must be wide.
Being like this, it will involve a wide lumbar area, allowing this way a wide
surface for the insertion of the gluteus muscles and the femoral biceps, which
are the biggest motors in the driving train.
FRONT: The dog will have to
own deep ribs. They are wide at the top, narrowing to the low part.The ribs house the lungs, which are not tanks but pumps.The ribs act as a bellows. Their effectiveness is
related in the difference between the contraction and expansion volume. The
ribs depth involves more room for the lungs to be bigger.
The shoulders will have to be
a bit wider than the ribs at the level of the eighth rib. Too narrow shoulders
won’t support a suitable muscular structure, but at the same time a too wide
shoulder structure, makes the animal slower and adds it too much unnecessary weight.
The shoulder blade must be situated at 45 degrees, or something less, of angle
to the ground, and this will be wide and flat.
The elbows must settle flat,
with the humerus in an almost parallel trajectory to
the spine. The elbow must reach below the ribs.
The forearm must be only a
bit longer than the humerus and this one must be
thick and solid, almost twice the thickness of the metatarsals, at the level of
the hock.
The front legs and shoulders must
be able to support a lot of work and their thickness can become a power at this
point. The feet, must be small and high inserted in the pasterns.
TAIL: The tail will be low
inserted; it will be long until a little before reaching the hocks. This one, has a thick base narrowing to the end. It must
crank-shaped when the dog is relaxed.
MANTLE: The mantle can be any
colour or combination of them, with the exception of the merle colour. It must
be short and strong. The shine of the mantle usually reflects the health of the
APBT, a vital sign.
SKIN: It must be thick and
loose, but without folds, with the exception of the neck and the chest, which
must be loose enough to show some vertical folds.
WITHERS HEIGTH:
The withers heigth in males can vary from 38 cm to 48
cm, and in the females; from 35 cm to 45 cm.
WEIGHT: In spite of many
people’s belief, APBT is a small breed dog, at most medium-sized, finding the
weight of the males that can vary from 13 kg to 27 kg; and in females from 12
kg to 23 kg. Someone might have a pure APBT specimen that weighs three or four
kg over these weghts, but surely it would have to be
fat.
GENERAL APPEARANCE: The APBT
will have to be square-shaped viewed from side, the distance from the shoulder
to the hip point must be the same distance from the shoulder to the ground.The animal will tread high and it will have a
maximum point of support for its body weight.
The American Pit Bull Terrier
is a complete athlete. Its morphology is developoed
for speed, power, agility and force. It will have to be balanced in all directions, too much of something steals another thing, at
the moment of performing any kind of work.
The selection of American Pit
Bull Terrier breeding, at combining The standard (functionability)
with its heart (balance, intelligence, courage, determination, bravery and
nobility), the result is unbeatable, discovering the best breed dog to perform
all kind of works and sports, however adverse the circumstances are at the time
of executing them.
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A BIG AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER, Yes or no?
Before
clearing up this question, we want to offer some existing data in Spain to the
amateurs to this marvelous breed dog, that at the
same time they are done extensibles in any another country.
If to count us to all those dogs located in Spain, that their owners affirm to
be American Pit Bull Terrier, we would arrive at the figure of 450.000, since
the International A. P. B. T. Federation we assure that A. P. B. T. of pure
breed in Spain, because if not they are of pure breed not they are A.P.B.T.,
not they arrive at the 3000.
In
this aspect, we have to clear up that hundreds they exist of breeders
opportunists that alone worries to gain easy money, putting cat by hare,
deceiving to the unskilled and selling them dogs of other breed dogs or
crossbreed, by American Pit Bull Terrier of pure breed.
Now
well, centering us in the question of this section we
have to clear up that the breed dog American Pit Bull Terrier, since was
created like breed dog already 500 years ago, were always small dogs or to
medium the most greatest thing, since being of these characteristics, was
gained greater funcionality for the job. Of fact, the
best A. P. B. T. of all old and modern times, weighed 21 Kg., we refer to Tudor´s “Dibo”.
We
pass to expose the opinions upon this matter, of three experienced enthusiastic
to the American Pit Bull Terrier, the first one of them is our President of the
International Federation Mr. Mariano Peinado.
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- Mariano Peinado , international A.
P. B. T. Federation President.
In the first place, meant that master to the breed dog
American Pit Bull Terrier, they be of an or another ramification genética, of a color or another,
of any physical structure, or of any weight, whenever they be of pure breed and
they be inside the standard and of course, accrediting its pedigree official,
which, is the only document that certifies the purity of breed. Not it wanted
that him me badly they interpreted my words, therefore also master to all the
dogs of breed or crossbreed and to all the animal species, the ones that know
me they know it very well.
It is of vital importance, that all the ones that are
involved in the breeding of this breed dog, we continue conserving to the A. P.
B. T. as what always to been, a functional dog for the job, stable and every
heart, with a power weight combination astonishing, without keep in mind at all
the esthetics or beauty in the selection. In this
manner we will obtain that the pure breed not itself extinguish, and he follow
being the best breed dog to develop any type of job, maintaining in its typical
heart virtues as the nobility, valour, throw, tenacity, caste, vigour, and the
astonishing endure so characteristic physicist of them.
When a A.
P. B. T. this in the 25kg. or 27Kg., this classified as a A.
P. B. T. big, but when the supposed A. P. B. T. exceed these weights, these
they lose enough funcionality for the job, therefore
they were tired enough more by have to bear an excessive weight, that is not
typical of the pure breed.
From there the importance of not enlarging the
full-size in the A.P.B.T., therefore if the ones that we raise him we did him,
he autentic A. P. B. T. would be extinguished and he
would be born a new breed dog, thing that the ones that really love to the
American Pit Bull Terrier never we wanted.
The A. P. B. T. is a breed dog that him to fashionable
position in many countries, and can assure that the fashions do not bring
anything good. The fashion contracts demand, and the breeders
opportunists demand, which, they know very well about the ignorance of the
persons that begin in the race, being for them an easy prey to deceive. These
breeders opportunists, not they are bothered in acquiring good dogs of the
race, simply they cross some dogs with other, and including, dogs of other
breed dogs that the fisic are similar to the A. P. B.
T. and they sell them as A. P. B. T. pure, and the truth is that they sell them
very well, on the one hand by the ignorance of the persons that begin, and by
another side upon being dogs of weight, they do that be dogs very beauty with a
great deal of head and a great deal of body, with an esthetics
very beauty but with very little funcionality in
comparison to the A. P. B. T. of pure breed. This type of dogs to which they
call A.P.B.T., are the most attractive for the persons that begin in this breed
dog by their beauty, thing that the breeders opportunists know very well and
therefore same they perform this type of deceits.
In conclusion to the question
from A. P. B. T. Big, yes or
not?, of course that not.
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- Mar Bartolomé, Breeder of
American Pit Bull Terrier.
The American Pit Bull Terrier native is of a medium
stature, of a weight whose stocking is of 19 Kg. With it it
has been maintained a funcionality, agility and power
better by no other breed dog.
At present, and each time more, tries to do a A. P. B. T. of greater stature and with greater corpulence,
but with all it they are being lost all the functional values of the American
Pit Bull Terrier, and for which really admires it itself.
If it is followed enlarging to the American Pit Bull
Terrier, they can fall in the error of creating another new breed dog, without
have nothing to do with the A. P. B. T. native, for which I create that to
should think very seriously if we want an American Pit Bull Terrier or another
breed dog new.
In individual, I will follow raising
the fisic from the A. P. B. T. native because thus I
helped to maintain to the A. P. B. T. of some way as really is.
On the other hand, nowadays they are being crossed A.
P. B. T. With other races seemed physically, and the result is a heavy and
large dog, but the reality is that is not a A. P. B.
T., is a crossbreed of “full-size”.
Not we degenerate the race and we follow maintaining a
race in danger of extinction by the very much present crossings, by the “well
economic” of some that they are called to itself same lovers of the race, when
in reality are lovers of the money.
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- Jorge Solé, expert in the race
and trainer from A.
P. B. T.
Since my point of view, a true one American Pit Bull
Terrier is a dog that have some certain characteristic
physics that do different to any another breed dogs. These characteristics are:
It forces, velocity, agility and above all, an
incredible relation weight-power.
If a supposed one American Pit Bull Terrier of 40 Kg.
(Moloso) is capable of maintaining these
characteristics, perhaps they are perfecting the race, but if is not thus, will
be degenerate, what would degenerating it consequences irreversibles
for the so dear one by us, he autentic American Pit
Bull Terrier.
“Red Pit of Villa
The standard that possesses this A.P.B.T., "Red Pit of Villa
Villa Liberty´s
"Red Nora", 21kg.
Villa Liberty´s “Red Nora" :
Daughter of "Red Pit of Villa
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