Ditto Black Hand. Believe you have pretty well nailed it on the head. Many a great breed of working type dogs of the past. Has been ruined by show dog type standards to a large degree. Preferring looks over true functionality.

If any of you have the book on the original English Bull Terrier or seen some of the older breed of English Bull Terriers of India. You can quickly see the newer standard of the modern English and American bred English Bull Terrier are very dissimilar.

Two other breeds are the German Shepard and the Doberman Pincher. The original Doberman Pincher was a big boned powerful dog that ranged up to a hundred or so pounds. The original German Shepard was much larger, bigger boned and did not suffer from hip dysplasia. That is so common with the American breed of the German Shepard.

For a excellent farm and work dog. I really liked the looks of those Bulldogs that the Georgia breeder had. He did not at that time call them a American Bulldog but claimed his dogs were the original English Bulldog from England. Today called the American Bulldog. Cheers