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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2023 9:54:14 GMT
It can be as tall and leggy as a boarhound but it is by occupation a fighting bulldog... it has to be genetically weird. There is some magic going on there. Hardcastle do you know what they are made of? |
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Post by Hardcastle on Jan 3, 2023 12:31:40 GMT
The tosa has a lot of boarhound blood. Starting with a base of local fighting spitz (specifically Shikoku Ken, not the akita as is often mistakenly said - but it makes little difference), these dogs were then outcrossed to fighting bulldogs from England in the 1860s, then english mastiffs (retired boarhounds) and Pointers in the 1870s, Great Danes (retired boarhounds), bull terriers and St Bernards (long retired boarhounds who had been through a career change) in the 1920s, and since ww2 tosas have also fairly freely been outcrossed with apbt (they're still allowed to cross them with whatever they want).
So all in all the end product isn't that weird, pretty much as expected with interesting little modifications like more loose wrinkly skin and looser flexible joints, both for dog-fighting specifically, and both would probably actually hinder them from working as boarhounds as is, but they could certainly be good in a cross.
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