I've noticed that some dogs in the gallery are of "fighting lines". Please let me say first that I am not familiar with those Sarplaninac fighting lines at all, nor am I interested in starting the typically charged debate "Why dog fighting?". My curiousity is rather "Why do some people in the Balkan areas use Sarplaninac dogs for fighting?". I do understand that there is a difference between "testing" working dogs for selection, which apparently some shepherds perform to test their males, and blunt "pit fighting" for money. So only with regard to "pit fights", wouldn't people quickly resort to APBT for example, if money's at stake? So, why fighting guard dogs if in today's time it's not a problem to get an APBT instead? I'd appreciate some expert opinion on this. Thanks.