In order to maintain the performance of their dogs, it is certainly reasonable to recognize that selective breeding projects existed by isolating populations of dogs so working dogs could be bred on the basis of performing specialized tasks in order to produce progeny capable of such tasks. During "ancient times," even if pedigrees were not recorded, the families of dogs that had particular traits or abilities were surely recognized. Prior to these very recent times, the bulldogs and mastiff type dogs may have already been similar in type, and their divergence is not probably as "ancient" as some may suggest. The idea that bandogs are products of mix breeding really has nothing to do with the term bandog until much later, perhaps not until the Bullmastff came along. I say variants since breeds did not exactly exist in refined "registry" type forms until considerably later. Not even once have I seen any ancient test refer to the bandog as a cross bred dog or a mixed breed dog produced from two different variants of dogs. SPECULATORY BASED components of the term " bandog" - Many people are mislead to believe "the bandog is a cross bred dog " however, this statement is just not true.not historically speaking anyway.Summary of #2 - We believe somewhat mastiff like. It should also be mentioned that the historical descriptions of the various "mastiff" types also describe a much more active and less exaggerated dog than what we see in most mastiff breeds today. Given the tasks required of bandogs, it is certainly reasonable to believe power and size would be desired as long as it was a benefit to performance, and not a hindrance. All that said, the etymology of the word dog/dogge is not 100% conclusive even though it is suggestive, so regardless of what some breed "historians" of various breeds like to report about the term "dogge," etymologist actually report "dogge" to be a term of uncertain origin. Regardless, if it was exactly a mastiff or not, most people agree that "dogge" does refer to dogs with considerable size and power, while it has not remained completely synonymous with every use of the term hound/hund. Others refer to older variants like "docga," which may have described a dog of a certain color. There is debate about who is right because dogge was not just used in reference to "large dogs," but also used in reference to "doggefish" (formerly called the houndfish or hundfish) and "dogge" began to replace the use of the term "hound" in the 1400's. Others say dogge were larger or heavier than other hund. Some sources say it is just an outdated spelling of dog, others say it is a synonym with hound or hund (German). BELIEF BASED components of the term bandog - If one studies language, it isn't exactly as clear cut where "dogge" comes from as some speculate.Summary of #1 - We know restrained, released, & catch. "Band" means "to bind, "banda" refers to some type of tether, and "bande" is translated to English it means "bound servant." As a result, before going any further, we already know the bandog is a a bound canine servant that is a formidable dog capable of catching, fighting, and subduing its quarry. When one reviews the orgins of bandog, several versions of the prefix exist. Etymology is the study of origins of words. As a result, the idea of restraints being part of the history of bandogs should therefore be accepted without question. We see significant reference to the bandog being restrained by leash, chain, or some other type of tether, and we see the dogs were released to hunt and catch man or beast. FACTUALLY BASED components of the term bandog - In pretty much every use of the word bandog in ancient text, which has historically been spelled " bandogge," we see reference to a dog that is used to catch man or beast, so being used to catch man or beast should be considered without question.
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