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The APBT is a dog of extremes. He is extremely strong, extremely powerful, and extremely loyal. He evokes extreme reactions, positive and negative. An alert and intelligent breed, the APBT has not only participated in, but has also excelled in, almost every activity in which dogs can be involved. In obedience, agility, therapy work, hunting, Schutzhund, weight-pulling contests, and candidly, in the dog-fighting pit, the APBT has continually surprised those who know the breed best and has amazed the uninitiated. However, this beautiful, powerful, bright, clownish, controversial dog has done his best work as a family pet and companion animal.

As serious students of canines, breed experts and anyone who has spent any length of time with a good APBT will readily testify that this breed, properly bred and properly socialized, is the least likely of all breeds to bite a human being! Many self-anointed guardians of all-things-canine may not accept this fact, but their ignorance does not make the fact less true. Historically, when they were pit fighting dogs, APBTs were bred never to attack humans. Their owners eliminated dogs that did not conform to this strict ideal.