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Posted in dog breeds | Tagged Gull terr | 16 Comments

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1. on March 30, 2013 at 12:17 pm Giraffe

   Well Bush, just wait the next around when “Putin” comes in. No, it’s not a Lab…

   
   
2. on March 30, 2013 at 1:53 pm DAC

   That’s not an accurate name for that dog (at least not as far as 43 is concerned). If it was he’d be sitting on the sidelines and sending some other dogs in to fight for him.
   DAC

   
   
   • on March 30, 2013 at 2:15 pm Giraffe

     Yea, but it’s the last part, you know, when everyone’s dead.

     
     
   • on March 30, 2013 at 7:52 pm massugu

     Go Dac!

     
     
3. on March 30, 2013 at 11:06 pm Suhail

   Yu da man, DAC.

   
   
4. on March 30, 2013 at 11:10 pm Suhail

   All Gull Terrs look alike, which means they are a distinct breed in themselves. A cross between Bully Kutta (the breed reached UK in the 80s, USA in 2012, and Canada in 2013) and Gull Terr is a Gull Dong, which is used in wild boar hunts and illegal sport of bear baiting.

   Dog fighting is illegal in that country, but practice goes on in remote rural areas.

   
   
5. on March 31, 2013 at 2:14 am Anna

   I am *so* not impressed with most dogs I see coming out of Pakistan, either native breeds or Western breeds. Most Bully Kuttas I see are absolute TRAIN WRECKS structurally, for example. I have seen a few nice Gull Terrs. I have no taste for the fighting dog temperament, but the ones bred for hunting seem reasonable & appear to essentially be a larger version of the Hink’s Bullterrier, more functional than the modern show Bullterrier.

   
   
   • on March 31, 2013 at 11:24 am bearcoatpei

     I thought it was just me with the bully kutta. They never look “right” to me for some reason.They’re weirdly incongruous to look at. Nothing I can specifically put my finger on apart from their mostly always atrocious swayback toplines, but they have no natural elegance to them.

     
     
   • on March 31, 2013 at 12:04 pm Suhail

     Anna and bearcoatpei,

     Wow you almost sound like an Indian always ready to thrash Pakistan on smallest of excuses ;-)

     I am not a dog expert so I am not sure what could be, as bearcoatpei says, ‘structurally’ wrong with a bully kutta. I have some good memories associated with ours when I was a school student. She guarded our small herd of pet goats. the group would be on their all day long all over the grazing areas and she would bring them back in the evening to their pens and then head towards us. There was no involvement of any humans in this operation.

     But if given a choice today, although they look handsome to me, I wouldn’t have any of those tosas, bully kuttas, cane corsos, pressas, dogos, filas, boerbols, etc.

     
     
     • on March 31, 2013 at 12:46 pm Anna

       Not liking the Pakistani dogs I see on the internet has nothing whatsoever to do with my opinion on Pakistan as a nation. I do not have an opinion about Pakistan as a nation, seeing as how I have never been there & only know a very few Pakistani people. But I stand behind my statement that I have not seen many BK that are physically sound enough to do any job at all aside from live on a chain & look like a large dog (not even a scary large dog since one can hardly be expected to be afraid of a dog who can’t physically do anything). The vast majority of the ones I have seen look like terrible Great Danes with bad skin. Flat, splayed feet, swaybacks, straight rears, hypertextended hocks, easty-westy & fiddle fronts, weak pasterns, cathedral chests, ectropion. They can barely walk, let alone run after a wild boar.

       
       
       • on March 31, 2013 at 1:55 pm Suhail

         That makes sense for disliking a breed. The civil engineer that I am not tells me that that structure would be weak.

         The dog breed has never been used for chasing and hunting wild boars. It has been used for dog fighting though and for guard duties.

         Turks and Kurds, usually owners of Kangals, have admired the breed on various forums, but then my guess is that Turks and Pakistanis have been emotionally close to each other and that could just be ‘nice gesture-reciprocating nice gesture’ comments.

         
         
6. on March 31, 2013 at 7:12 am landauer

   I hear the dog pictured spends his free time painting.

   
   
7. on March 31, 2013 at 11:28 am bearcoatpei

   With his poodle friend called Blair.

   
   
   • on March 31, 2013 at 11:29 am bearcoatpei

     Aw dammit, this should have gone as a reply to DAC.

     
     
8. on April 4, 2013 at 11:07 pm Rachel

   I’ve seen some Bull Kutta pics of ones that have very close conformation to dogs like Dogo Argentino,and PIt bulls. Usually ones that are bred for more then just giant size,can be impressive.
   I don’t think their as athletic as Kangals though.

   I like the look of Gull Terrs,Rather like a old fashioned,extra long legged Bull Terrier.

   I actually saw this photo before,and was wondering what the other dogs name was.

   
   
   • on April 4, 2013 at 11:16 pm DAC

     Certainly not Cheney.
     DAC

     
     

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