American Staffordshire Terrier

The Staffordshire Bull Terrier is an original race of the United Kingdom and with more than 200 years of antiquity it was created from old crossings of the English Bulldog with Terriers of the time to give life to the fights of dogs, tejones or bears, since the Bulldogs (used to hold the head of cattle while for any necessity in the farms or also for the spectacles) bit and did not loosen and terriers (hunters of noxious animals) had an intrepid temperament the more.
It was in Staffordshire, England where these dogs had their greater representation, since it was common enters the miners of the zone to take them to the work to sometimes realise combats during the rests with distraction aims, and others with the eagerness to make some extra money to bear the extreme poverty of the time.

The condition of the prohibition of the time made select a smaller size, although also to practical effects for the life in family, since many of them could not be allowed more of a dog, and had to coexist with them, was of special attention that its relation with the humans was most warm possible.

In order to coexist in a floor with all a family this condition that was essential the dogs were great lovers of the absolutely dangerous people and for them.

They are dogs of very warm deal with the people (dog denominates itself to him “nursemaid”).

In general, one is a dog of red and white short hair, customary of colors black, atigrado, being able to have any color except the black and fire (to rottweiler) and the color liver. The measurement is between the 38 and 40 cm to the cross, and the weight oscillates between the 15 and 20 kg All this following if he is male or female, and of which the height and the weight are in balance with one another. The racial standard does not say that, the maximum weight of the males is 17.8 kilos