quarta ago 08, 2007 3:41 pm
Concordo plenamente.
Desde os ancestrais Bull-and-Terriers que não existem provas de que Hinks teria desenvolvido a raça como cães de combate, aliás numa edição publicada no já extinto "American magazine Dogdom", o filho de hinks, filho esse com o mesmo nome (James Hinks) refere:
"Around the fifties a great change came about.My fhater who had previously owned some of the gamest of the old stock with which he had been experimenting and crossing with the White English Terrier and Dalmation, bred a strain of all white dogs, which he called Bull Terriers (..) these dogs were refined and their Bull Dog appearance being still further bred out, they were longer and cleaner in head, stronger in foreface, free from lippiness and the throatiness and necks were longer;they became more active;in short they became The old fighting dog civilized ... a real gentleman.