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Bull Terrier
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| Bull Terrier circa 1911 |
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| Chronicle (Adelaide) Saturday 2nd November 1912, | via Trove |
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| Bull Terrier C. 1914 |
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| Bull Terrier circa 1928 |
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| Bull Terrier circa 1930 |
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| Bull Terrier circa 1930 |
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| Bull Terrier circa 1930 |
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| Bull Terrier circa 1946 |
There is an account of a Bull Terrier successfully seeing off a shark after it was attacked in Australian waters. The dog fought free after being dragged into the sea by the shark and attacked the fish in turn but unfortunately succumbed to its injuries later.
Probably one of the most famous (or infamous) bull terriers of the early nineteenth century was Tom Cribb's dog Puss, champion of many dog fights, but perhaps even more famous as a vanquisher of fighting dogs was Jacco Macacco (sometimes Jacko Maccacco/ Macauco/ Murkarker) the fighting monkey. The 10lb monkey fought sometimes chained to a dog kennel and occasionally allowed to wield an iron bar, and usually beat his opponents, who could be up to twice his weight, in about one and a half minutes. Just what species of monkey or ape Jacco was has engendered some debate over the years. Lennox (1860) surmised that Jacco could have been a small ash-coloured gibbon, but ten pounds weight is a bit on the light side for an adult male gibbon. Jacko and Puss supposedly fought for nearly thirty minutes and both died as a result of the horrible mutilations they sustained, so the story goes, but if this is true then it couldn't have been the first fight between the two as there is a Westminster Pit broadsheet in existence advertising an upcoming 'Wonderful Performance' by Jacco that mentions his "13 battles with some of the best dogs of the day, including his combat with the wonderful bitch Puss of T.Cribbs... ."
Pictures of sporting life and character.
Lennox, Lord William Pitt. Hurst and Blackett. 1860.
Our dogs and all about them. by Frank Townend Barton M.R.C.V.S.
Jarrold & Sons, 10 & 11, Warwick Lane E.C.
Dogs Of Today, Harding Cox
A. & C. Black Ltd., 4, 5 & 6 Soho Square, London, W.1.
Hounds & Dogs, A. Croxton Smith et al
Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., 196, Shaftesbury Avenue, London.
Dogs of all nations
W.E. Mason, 1915
Dogs in Britain, Clfford L.B. Hubbard
Macmillan and Co., Limited St. Martin's Street, London, 1948
House of Commons
Dwarf v Bulldog
Lion Baiting
Staffordshire Bull Terrier
See English White Terrier.
