I just started doing bitework with my 4 year old for fun and as an outlet for his drive. Still working on maintaining a calm grip and proper targeting. I feel like there's a lot of misunderstanding in the gamedog world that doing bitework is encouraging human aggression. That is definitely not the case. The dogs understand that this is a game. The intricacies and details that goes into bitework are amazing. It's a totally different when training a dog as a real protection dog (civil aggression) and training a dog for sport. It will look very similar to the untrained eye.

I am not a fan of real human aggression in the APBT as well. However, I'm fine with using them as a real personal protection dog as long as you're a super experienced trainer that knows what you're doing and the dog is balanced (clear in the head). Unbalanced and fearful dogs should definitely be not be used for breeding, sport, or ppd for that matter. I do think it's a myth that human aggressive bulldogs are culled as we see from history a lot of major studs and bitches that are HA are being bred as long as they proved themselves in the pit (Zebo, Honeybunch, Bolio, Chinaman, Haunch, Virgil, Bullyson, and the list goes on).

Anyone else is doing bitework with their bulldog?