Gametesting

Gametesting is one so called process that is used to see if a dog is capable of being put in the pit to fight. One dog advocate describes it in this excerpt below.

The American Pit Bull Terrier's story is mired in sad reality. Some fanciers, many who call themselves "dogmen", claim that in order to produce the real APBT, the dogs must be fought so they can prove their gameness (i.e. willingness to keep going despite pain and exhaustion). In their opinion, only the candidates that don't quit a fight are true representatives of the breed and should be bred - The others are called "curs" and eliminated.

Those people firmly believe that the abolishment of "Gametesting" would destroy the APBT breed. They therefore feel completely justified to continue exploiting dogs by forcing them into the worse possible form of abuse. Are they right?

To put things in perspective, let me share my personal experience. I own several "Pet Bulls", all rescue dogs of unknown background. One or two of them "may" be game (I will never know since I don't "test" my dogs), but the rest would most likely qualify as curs since true game dogs are far in between. This means that most of my dogs hopefully have enough survival instinct to value their life more than to "finish" a fight. Dogmen would call them "quitters", I call them "winners". However, since they are probably not game enough according to fanciers of that bloody sport, they are not worthy of their admiration. I can tell you that my dogs, game or not, are wonderful companions and I am very proud of them. Ironically, they would have received a bullet in the head in the yard of any dogman due to their lack or absence of gameness... None sense? I think so too.

Many Pit Bull lovers are completely disgusted by the barbarian practice of dog fighting and don't hesitate to raise a strong voice against this terrible form of animal cruelty. Unfortunately some other people are being influenced by pro-fighting material they read in books and on the net, and decide to close their eyes. Some will even encourage this nonsense to continue by supporting the men and women who throw these dogs in the pit and watch them tear each other apart in order to test their gameness. Some Pit Bull owners push the paradox as far as disapproving dog fighting publicly, but will only buy dogs from gametested lines (i.e.: The breeding stock is fought before being allowed to reproduce). Hypocrisy at its best!

I completely agree with all that Veronique Chesser says in this excerpt and the rest of her website. She is an incredible Pit Bull lover and her website offers a tremendous amount of vital information. It is a wonderful site and one that you should definitely take a look at…. www.pitbullsontheweb.com