U[sic]GA "is the poster child for breeding gone awry,"

[TechSBP]

Tell us something we didn't already know about U[sic]GA VII:

"breeders have transformed bulldogs . . . into genetic monstrosities prone to chronic disease and sometimes early death."


http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/01/16/uga_507884.shtml

Maybe they should go back to having a billy goat as a mascot.

 

[The Jacket]

You want to try and find a force large enough to keep those hillbillies away from a goat after they've been tailgating for an hour or two?

 

[MatatoGT]

They have to deliver these mutts by C-section? Are you kidding me?

 

[BuzzCzar]

Be careful, TechSBP, but since this post isnt DIRECTLY about something with football (even though the season is over and its the most popular board by far) posters may come on this thread and say it doesnt belong here and is not funny. i dont know what it is, but it's been going around lately.

 

[TechSBP]

Be careful, TechSBP, but since this post isnt DIRECTLY about something with football (even though the season is over and its the most popular board by far) posters may come on this thread and say it doesnt belong here and is not funny. i dont know what it is, but it's been going around lately.

I've heard of it. Some folks suffer from a condition which requires a sledge hammer to drive a pin up where the sun don't shine (or however Paul Johnson phrased it).

I appreciate the warning but I carry a sledgehammer. I'm not to scared. That said, to paraphrase, if it reflects poorly on our rival, it reflects well on us.

 

[bellyseries]

The better our rival is and looks, the better we look when we beat them.

 

[BuzzCzar]

The better our rival is and looks, the better we look when we beat them.

i guess that is why Muhammed Ali painted George Foreman as such a charismatic and likeable figure prior to fighting him in the most media intensive heavy weight battle maybe to this day, the time they fought in Zaire

 

[lonestarjacket]

Interesting and ignorant comments to the article.

Several people were reacting to "interference with nature" to change the breed standard. Apparently they were unaware that "inteference with nature" is the reason the breed looks the way it does today (or any breed for that matter.)

As a child, we had a bulldog that looked like the "Olde English Bulldogge" referenced in the comments. Or, it may have been an American Bulldog, but the head seemed bigger than today's American Bulldogs.

American Bulldogs evidently come closer to the original bulldogs than English Bulldogs. The colonists kept them to the original standard while the Brits made them into more of a companion animal, cross breeding with Pugs.