Originally Posted by
kawhia
gamebred pitbulls have a pretty long linage like it's cousin the American bulldog, they were keep pretty uniform and differents types developed in many southern states, from which I think the jeep and sorells lines came from, some of those were the first imported to nz right from the get go cross breeding to English and staffs was pretty common to fulfil the huge demand at the time.
I've met some pretty placid pitbulls both here and over seas, what I do know is some of the bad arse fighting pits I've seen were absolute marshmellows around people so go figure.