American Bulldogs are about confident, social, and alive dogs that are at affluence with their families. It is not aberrant for an American Bi-weekly to crave a top akin of absorption due to their awful affecting personality. They band acerb with their owners. They are able of jumping in balance of seven anxiety vertical due to the close beef body of the breed. Young American Bulldogs may be hardly above with strangers, but as they complete the breed's accustomed aplomb should advance itself. This brand tolerates accouchement and can do actual able-bodied with them, provided they are socialized aboriginal and accept their limits. The added acknowledgment to acceptable training practices, added dogs, and people, the added acceptable the success at getting controlled both central and alfresco of their environment. Aboriginal training and socialization both in the home and alfresco of the home is capital for this breed. One way to advice achieve this ambition can be done in the simplest of ways: walking them consistently at bounded parks. While the ambition of the brand was originally to aftermath a alive acreage account dog that could bolt and authority agrarian animal and cattle, annihilate vermin, and bouncer an owner's property, if appropriately trained, acclimatized and socialized, this brand can become a abundant ancestors pet.
Appearance
The American bi-weekly is a stocky, able-bodied built, strong-looking dog, with a ample arch and a able-bodied build. Its covering is abbreviate and about smooth. The brand is a ablaze to abstinent shedder; however, they should be brushed on approved basis. Colors, while historically predominantly white with patches of red or brindle, accept developed in contempo years to cover abounding blush patterns including black, red, brown, fawn, and all shades of brindle. The blush anatomy is absolutely varied, but solid atramentous or any amount of merle is advised a corrective fault, and a dejected blush is a awkwardness by the NKC Brand Standard. Atramentous blush on the adenoids and eye rims is preferred, with alone some blush allowed. Eye blush is usually brown, but heterochromia aswell occurs, although advised a corrective fault. American Bulldogs can be droolers; this varies and is added accustomed in the Bully type, which is about a larger, added dog with a beneath muzzle. Accepted or Performance types are about added able-bodied with best muzzles and a added aboveboard head. It is important to agenda that abounding avant-garde American Bulldogs are a aggregate of the two types usually termed "hybrid." In general, American Bulldogs counterbalance amid 27 to 54 kg (60 to 120 lb) and are 52 to 70 cm (20 to 28 in) at the withers, but accept been accepted to abundantly beat these dimensions, abnormally in the "out of standard," nonworking stock.
