BULLLYHISTORY

Sometime during the nineteenth century, dog fanciers in
England, Ireland, and Scotland began to experiment
with crosses between Bulldogs and Terriers, looking for
a dog that combined the gameness of the terrier with the
strength and athleticism of the Bulldog. The result was a
dog that embodied all of the virtues attributed to great
warriors: strength, indomitable courage, and gentleness
with loved ones. Immigrants brought these bull and
terrier crosses to the United States. The American Pit
Bull Terrier's many talents did not go unnoticed by
farmers and ranchers who used their APBTs for
protection, as catch dogs for semi-wild cattle and hogs, to
hunt, to drive livestock, and as family companions.

Today, the American Pit Bull Terrier continues to
demonstrate its versatility, competing successfully in
Obedience, Tracking, Agility, Protection, and Weight
Pulls, as well as Conformation.
The United Kennel Club was the first registry to
recognize the American Pit Bull Terrier.
U.K.C. founder C. Z. Bennett assigned U.K.C.
registration number 1 to his own APBT, Bennett's Ring
in 1898.

Characteristics
The essential characteristics of the American Pit Bull
Terrier are strength, confidence, and zest for life.
This breed is eager to please and brimming over with
enthusiasm. APBTs make excellent family companions
and have always been noted for their love of children.
Because most APBTs exhibit some level of dog
aggression and because of its powerful physique, the
APBT requires an owner who will carefully socialize and
obedience train the dog. The breed's natural agility
makes it one of the most capable canine climbers so good
fencing is a must for this breed. The APBT is not the
best choice for a guard dog since they are extremely
friendly, even with strangers. Aggressive behavior toward
humans is uncharacteristic of the breed and highly
undesirable.
This breed does very well in performance events because
of its high level of intelligence and its willingness to work.
The American Pit Bull Terrier has always been capable
of doing a wide variety of jobs so exaggerations
or faults should be penalized in proportion to how much
they interfere with the dog's versatility.

THE HISTORY OF THE BULLIES

RAZORS EDGE BLOODLINE

Razors Edge History

Razors Edge was started in MD and DC by Dave Wilson and Carlos Barksdale.
They started out with game dogs. They researched everything they could find
and read every book publicized at that time. The also subscribed to many dog
magazines like the ADBA Gazette, even some underground ones. They called
nearly every breeder that they could find and questioned them, If it said Pit,
they were on it. They already owned some unpapered BYB Pits. They even
had there own Pit club and went hiking and other things back in the woods.
Eventually they got enough money to get some real papered, good bloodline,
game dogs. They purchased some of the best around at the time. Even paid
$3500 way back then for a Grandson of the great Plumbers Alligator, mainly
Mayfield lines. Dave and Carlos were very heavy into the game lines and had
dogs from Hemphill to Wilder blood. These were big game dogs. Later on they
hooked up with George Williams in DC and purchased a dog they named
Diablo, from Wildside Kennels. Diablo's dad was a bigger catch dog,
Hollinsworth Bull. His mom was a game girl names Wildsides Ms.Leaky. This
was the turn around time when Razors Edge started adding more size. The first
ever registered ADBA Razors Edge breeding was from his Mayfield boy Zeus
to a Mayfield girl name Jinx. Jinx was actually given to friend back then named
Curt Plater, now CLP Kennels. He owned the first ever Razors Edge dog.
They would lose contact after this for many years before hooking up again.
They banned Pits in PG County and Dave was forced to move. Eventually
through Daves job in the Pet Store industry he landed a mangers job at a Pet
Store in VA. He had to move to VA and still resides there as Razors Edge
Kennel.Dave managed a Pet Store, worked as a professional dog trainer, and
still bred bigger ADBA game dogs. Basically, he bred his own pits now. He
also put fliers in the Washington Post explaining what the breed was and what
Razors Edge was.Dave met a guy name Ron Smith who came aboard and took
Razors Edge to another level. Dave saw this blue dog named Steel Town Blue
Monday and was hooked! Ron already knew every UKC and AKC breeder
under the sun. He had been researching on his own for years. So this man had
all the pictures, info, etc. He had fliers and pictures from every AKC and UKC
breeder from Coast to coast. He literally had pictures of almost all the dogs in
all these pedigrees. That man really was the Pit Guru. He first contacted Cock
'n' Bull Kennels, the ones that produced Monday. They turned them onto
people in Cali with that blood. Candace Eggart was one. Candy sent pictures of
what she had and what she had going on. Just to give you a time frame, She
sold a dog years later to Tony Moore named Showtime! Showtime went on to
be one of the foundation bitches in the Greyline bloodline! So this was years
before Greyline was even around. They went to every breeder on the East
Coast. Up north to Bobby Morehouse, Beth Jones, a friend of his Lee
Fitzgerald, Flying A's, Minot's Ledge, etc. they actually purchased a blue
brindle female named Sadey from Minot's Ledge. This litter was had an
extraordinary pedigree. The top half were mainly Flying A's dogs like Oreo and
Reo Speedwagon;. Dogs he had seen and liked. You could see in the extended
pedigree how these dogs stemmed from Ruffian dogs. Then you could see how
it went back even further from the AKC Ruffian dog to the UKC Colby dogs.
This top half of the pedigree actually showed how Pits eventually were
registered as Staffs! Dave thought that was cool to see on paper and in a dog he
owned. Then the bottom half of the ped went right back to Stratton dogs. Dogs
like Going light Barney, dogs he grew up reading about! Thanks to Richard
Stratton, Then behind them were the same Colby dogs he saw on the top half
of the pedigree. So he had this dog that showed the history of the Am. Staff
and the directions the Colby line went in the UKC. He also purchased a male
named Razors Edge Blue Maxx. His top half was a dog named StoryTime's
Upon this Rock AKA Peter Peter was a dog bred by Beth Jones. He was a big
dog, but kinda ugly. They bred him to Wassuc's Farm Maggie May. Dave
really liked this compact girl. He researched her lines and found she was Ryan.
When they got to see the Ryan dogs they were surprised to see they were game
dogs. They were AKC registered Staffs, but they still bred for game dogs! This
was something Dave had never seen, I'm sure that's why the AKC people didn't
like that line, . However, Dave loved it! Bully, game, blue, staffs! Now that's
what I am talking about! Maxx was there boy from this blood. Now Razors
Edge was big ADBA game dogs, one UKC Blue Brindle girl, and a Big hot
Blue Fawn AKC boy.In Va there was Sharon Stone of Cloverhill, who had the
biggest Staffs Dave had ever seen! Her old stuff was huge! Too tall for what he
was looking for, but huge! They changed years later and went more showy.
Paco, was in Dave's opinion actually a throw back of her older days. Ginny
York, Pam Perdue, GiGi, the Garretts, etc.they visited them all. Even went
down to Florida and checked out Marsha Woods. Met KC Courtier of
Watchdog Kennels. Eventually, went up to Md and met Kimmar Kennels. As
soon as Dave stepped on the ranch, he knew he had found the build he was
looking for! The Razors Edge package was almost complete.Razors Edge also
had been advertising in the Washington Post for many years. Some young
dudes from DC used to come down and hang out and bring their dogs. Edwin
Salinas and Joey Nevils were two of them. These guys had been buying dogs
from Kimmar and mixing their own stuff in them too. Kimmar used to have an
ad in the post under the Pit Bull ads, it said Petey pups. They didn't want their
dogs to be labeled as Pits; but they advertised directly under Pits?
Hmmmmmm? Not as Staff? Anyway, local people knew the deal and picked
up a lot of her dogs. Joey, Edwin, Joey's pops, and their boys had a bunch of
these dogs. Even some old friends of Dave's Jerry and Gerrold had yards with
these dogs. They all had game stuff in the mix. Dave tapped into a lot of their
dogs as well. In Kimmar's yard he learned a lot about breeding and genetics.
Dave spent every weekend there for almost three years, and actually put on a
training class for all her buyers every Sunday. Razors Edge had been breeding
now for a few generations and even used a lot of her dogs from other people in
the mix. Ron, also had some York dogs, and some other AKC stuff, they
experimented with. Before they got Knuckles or any of them, Razors Edge was
already in the game. Kimmar actually used there dog Maxx for some breedings.
Eventually we purchased around 15 dogs from her line, including Knuckles and
Rage. While these pups were growing, Razors Edge already had it's formula.
They just wanted a different head. They were not given papers on some of
these dogs and they had to be UKC registered instead! This is where Razors
Edge became heavily involved in UKC. Dave started searching for a better
head and came into some Watchdog stuff. KC was not breeding anymore, so
he had to find that blood somewhere else. he bought dogs from Grapevine
Kennels, and also hit up Hughzee's, who he believe later on became Chaos
Kennels. They had been talking to Pam from Gaff Kennels for a few years, and
really liked a boy name Seiko! So they got a dog from her. So Dave
experimented with a lot of lines and different dogs. Razors Edge started having
a real consistent look. The heads were big, but they still wanted them to be a
little blockier. A few generations later it was pretty much there. So by taking
combinations of dogs and bloodlines Dave eventually got to the style of Pit Bull
he wanted, now called Bully Style of Pit Bulls, Meaning large in size, such as a
large head, wide chest, short blocky muzzles, large, but not over done bone,
and a shorter back, but at the same time correct as the United Kennel Club and
American Kennel Club judge by. Razors Edge purchased a pup from the
breeding of Kimmars Catt Man Roo and Pam's White Path China Black. These
two dogs produce a few dogs in the litter that helped to promote the Razors
Edge line, dogs such as: GR CH Razors Edge Throwin Knuckles, CH Razors
Edge Inna Rage, and Razors Edge Sapphire Lil. Another breeding that
produced one of the most famous Bitches in the history of Razors Edge was
between Ch. Jackson's GMJ Mr. Brooks and Razors Edge SilverSadey of ML
which produced GR. CH. Razors Edge Sadey's Paddington and also Kim's
Blue Dekota. Dave used Ch. CloverHill's Watuka Spirit AKA Paco and bred
him to Paddington, which produced the legendary CH. Razors Edge Purple
Rose of Cairo, the most famous dog of all the Razors Edge dogs today in my
opinion. Razors Edge Kenna Claddaugh, Razors Edge Top Notch Chino,
Razors Edge Chi Chi of Trueblue, Tonka and Jigga and Iced Mocha are also
productions from this breeding.When the time was right the grand champion
knuckles was bred to Paddington, which produced another female, named
Viagra. Viagra was bred to the legend Cairo and produced one of my favorite
males Razors Edge V's Lil Ro, AKA Ro. They also produced Cai, Diva, Caira
and a few more. Ro lives his own legacy today in producing some beautiful
dogs such as Suarez Bulls Paco and Genuine Edge's Toxic, and Titan Kennels
Titan, just to name a few of my favorite males out of him. A friend of mine at
Bully Loaded Kennels also has a son, Ripley, and daughter, Faith, off of him
that will be very nice when there older. Cairo was also bred to a few other
females but I will not name them all just ones that come to mind, some of the
important ones in my eyes, such as the Cairo and Koi Breeding. Koi who is out
of GR CH Knuckles and Dakota (Paddingtons sister), was bred to Cairo and
produced Rage, Neela, Brooklyn, Shamrock, Rolli, Rosetta, and Diamond.
Cairo was also bred to Tiki and produced a male by the name of Hennessey.
Cairo was also bred to my friends dog Trixie of blackout kennels in VA and
produced his male Gooda, Bo at Bow Wow Kennels, Denile at Razors Edge
Kennel, one of my personal favorite females of Razors Edge bloodline and two
others that go by Bosko and Bun. The Cairo side of Razors Edge is just a
fraction of the bloodline. The line has been taking in different directions but
everything basically stems from the knuckles, paddington, and rage
blood.Another well known producing dog is Razors Edge CLP's Short Shot,
Short Shot is off of Buckshot and Rage, and is also a grandson to Knuckles on
Buckshots side and Rage is Knuckles sister. Shortshot has done a few
breedings is his life, such as Diamond, and more recently Paradise and Steel.
there is also sections of the blood that are almost like a line in its own
depending on what your looking for, you got the Cairo side, the ShortShot side,
the you got Manu side, Dozer Daisy line breedings, which all of this basically
ties into each and every dog produced from Razors Edge yard in the very
beginning! You just have to connect them all together. It's the facts of
producing outstanding dogs from the start and putting time and effort and lots
of money into building a dream. Razors Edge Kennel has been involved in
learning, breeding, showing, training and raising the American Pit Bull Terrier
for well over 15 years and it keeps getting better! Razors Edge will not die! It
will live on through Dave, his kids, friends, and mainly in his dogs! Razors
Edge is a bloodline for everyone, it offers show quality dogs, bully correct
dogs, bully dogs, and overdone dogs, overdone meaning extreme bone, head,
and chest, at the same time very nice dogs, but dogs that would not be able to
win in the show ring. So if you want a real Pit Bull where there females out do
other kennels males go to Razors Edge Kennel and they can point you in the
right direction!

American Staffordshire Terrier. This was achieved through years of selective breeding. The American Bully The
American Bully is a combination of the desired traits of the ancestry of the American Pit Bull Terrier and the
American Staffordshire Terrier. This was achieved through years of selective breeding. The American Bully
possesses the loyalty and stability of the American Pit Bull Terrier while retaining the sociable, amiable, and
outgoing temperament of the American Staffordshire Terrier. This unique breed is noted for displaying extreme
tolerance toward children and an overwhelming eagerness to please its family. Confident, yet not aggressive, this
breed is all in all of a pleasant temperament. Physically, the American Bully has a defined, athletic build that is both
muscular and toned, and denotes strength as well and diverse in all tasks and abilities. The American Bully is a well
rounded, reliable, trustworthy, and all around the ideal family companion.
ideal family companion.

American Bully Breed Standard

General Impression
The American Bully should give the impression of great strength for its size. A medium size dog with a muscular
body. Agile and graceful in its movement, keenly alive to his surroundings. He should be stocky, not long-legged or
racy in outline. His courage is proverbial.

Head
Medium length, deep through, broad skull, very pronounced cheek muscles, distinct stop, and high set ears.
Ears – Natural or Cropped.
Eyes - All colors except albinism. Eye shape would be round to oval, low down in skull and set far apart.
Muzzle - Medium length rounded on upper side or slightly squared to fall away abruptly below eyes. Jaws well
defined. Under jaw to be strong and have biting power. Lips close and even, some looseness accepted, but not
preferred. Upper teeth to meet tightly outside lower teeth in front or scissor bite accepted. Nose all colors acceptable.

Neck
Heavy, slightly arched, tapering from shoulders to back of skull. No looseness of skin. Medium length.

Shoulders
Strong and muscular with blades wide and sloping.

Back
Fairly short. Slight sloping from withers to rump or straight accepted with gentle short slope at rump to base of tail.
Slightly higher rears accepted, but not encouraged.

Body
Well-sprung ribs, deep in rear and all ribs close together. Forelegs set rather wide apart to permit chest
development. Chest should be deep and broad.

Tail
Short in comparison to size, low set, tapering to a fine point; not curled. Not docked.

Legs
Front legs- should be straight a slight turning outwards of the feet is accepted but not desired, large or round
bones, pastern upright. No resemblance of bend in front.
Hindquarters- well-muscled, let down at hocks, turning neither in nor out.
Feet- of moderate size, well-arched and compact.
Gait- should be springy with drive off the rear.

Coat
Short, close, stiff to the touch, and glossy.

Color
All colors and patterns are permissible expect the color merle.

Size
Height and weight should be in proportion. A height of about 18 to 21 inches at shoulders for the male and 17 to 20
inches for the female is to be considered preferable. There is no particular weight for the breed.

Faults
Faults to be penalized are: kinked or knotted tails, pink eyes and any form of albinism, tail too long or curled,
undershot or overshot mouths, severe turned fronts, and aggressive behavior towards animals and humans.