Articles about American Pit Bull Terrier
...to start reading this article from the beginning please click on here....Experienced breeders pay attention to the broad hips, coupling and developed crural muscles. The paws must be small and stand on pads high.
Top and bottom lines
Top line must be too short, with slight slope from the withers to the curple and a small corpora tilt to the tail base. Belly is lightly elevated.
Head
In modern pit bulls the form of the head is the least constant characteristic in comparison with any other body part, perhaps because it has little to do with the fighting qualities of the dog. Nevertheless, some of the features are of importance.
First of all, these are overall measurements. Big head hangs for the most part, but the small one is more attackable, especially for those interested in grabbing for the nose or the ear.
The size of the head of well-proportioned dog must be approximately two thirds distance from the shoulder width, but the width at the level of cheeks is to be by one fourth more that the width of neck at the bottom of skull. The distance from the hindhead to foot must make the distance from the foot to nose.
Dogs with big lips often bite them through, therefore the big lips are considered to be a significant disadvantage.
Rhinal bridge must be well-developed as to form inspissation just under the eyes, much larger than cephalic space at the level of ears.
The nose lobe is to be black color necessarily. Light shades are considered to be deformity.
The distance from the top of the head to the low jaw is of significant importance. Fastening of the jaws is performed by transfer of stress from temporal muscle to coronoid muscle. The more upright head dimensions the more fastening lever of the jaws and their being in clasped condition.
Straight, like a box, head and well-developed low jaw have nothing to do with bite power, but on the contrary, present themselves as a convenient target. In whole, such the head is gonna have cuneated shape if looking at from above and below, and clypeate in front.
It is very important, that the teeth should bear against each other when the jaws are fastened, at that the upper must be behind the lower teeth. According to the standard, there is no necessity for the full teeth number (Omni tooth). However, during pedigree breeding, the dogs with 42 teeth are much better than the others
There must be scissors occlusion. Bulldog and pincers-type occlusions, as well as underbite are accepted as defects....to continue reading this article please click on here...
