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Words of wisdom
"I'd rather breed inferior dogs of a superior line than to breed superior dogs of an inferior line." Jeff Clark "Most
Georgians know about the role of the English and Gen. James Oglethorpe, who
arrived with a band of settlers in 1733 to establish Savannah and the Georgia
colony, but they know little about the role of the Spanish, who had a mission on
St. Catherine's Island south of Savannah that was active from about 1575 - 1680.
There's nearly 200 years of prior European
history that had a huge bearing on the later history we attribute to the
English. What we're trying to do is give
people a healthy reminder of this longer history, which is also pretty
interesting history." Dr. Dennis Blanton Curator,
Native American Archaeology "There is no malice intended by telling the truth." Ray Lane "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as you please." Mark Twain "Behavioral researchers have demonstrated conclusively just how closely linked are a low stimulus threshold, aggressiveness, shyness, and fear. Pugnacity and unbridled aggressiveness are completely different from the sensible readiness to defend..." Fighting Dog Breeds Dr. Dieter Fleig "To put it
concisely: breeders who cover up hereditary defects occurring in litters are
acting as gravediggers to a breed. Breed clubs that continue to disregard
hereditary deficiencies, such as lack of maternal instinct in the brood-bitch or
mating instinct in the stud dog, should be excluded from the privileges of the responsible
kennel club." "Besides that, mean dogs don't usually win. They lose because they quit. A sound disposition seems to go with gameness." The Truth About American Pit Bull Terriers Richard F. Stratton "It should be a useful defense dog only when its family is threatened, and then it should be able to think the situation through for itself and respond only when it knows that a physical response is the only thing left to do." Gladiator Dogs Dr Carl Semencic "Close line breeding is said to be responsible for causing high-strung, nervous and aggressive dogs. In point of fact, the statement is a false one, relying as it does on the unfounded assumption that just because two individuals are closely related their offspring are going to be shy or aggressive. Obviously, it is the genetic potential in the background of the pair which determines the outcome. A fundamentally sound strain remains fundamentally sound, and one which uses a mentally unstable dog as a pillar of its program is eventually going to produce nervous and aggressive animals." The New Complete Great Pyrenees Paul Strang What is man without the beasts? If all beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit; for whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to men. All things are connected. Chief Seattle - Duwamish Tribe "...when the
last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another
Heaven and another Earth must pass before such a one can be
again." "The
reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his
tongue." "A
dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves
himself." "We
give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. "If
you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that
is the "My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog thinks I am." "A Dog Registry should not be status symbol; it is a written record of the dogs of a particular breed in order to maintain purity." - Ray Lane "The preservation of the game-bred animals must be accomplished. They are a proud gift from the past, a gift that we may not all be able to appreciate, a gift that may only speak to the hearts of a few, but a gift all the same. It is the matchless courage and sheer amazing heart of the dogs that were capable of such a feat that are worth saving. Our ancestors considered the dogs worth passing on to the future, and we can do no less. The challenge to today's breeder is to retain type, courage and gameness while producing a dog that can function in today's society." Louis Colby "Due to show fads, most breeds have changed dramatically in the past several decades, often not even recognizable as the same dogs from which they came." Louis Colby "Strange how much you've got to know before you know how little you know." unknown "The confident game dog is often the calmest and most relaxed dog. He doesn't see the world as a threat and sees no reason to threaten it." Louis Colby "Who
knows what other breeds might have been added to American Bulldog blood
recently? We know only that when someone describes his or her American Bulldog
as being pure bred, with nothing else added to it, either they are thinking very
short term or they don't know what they are saying.
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