Lewis, sorry, I didn't get your complete meaning of your post. This is how I explain it to people, if you don't want a dog to jump in the water don't get a Lab, if you don't want your dog to fight, don't get a pit. The AB as a breed is infact so diversified as to working drives due to all the crossbreeding, but look at those first papered, JDJs Dick the Brusier was known for fighting packs of wild dogs comming after livestock, his son Scott's Dixi-man would heel and catch cattle and was one serious guard dog that needed no trainning, no sport protection titles, in Allen's words, "He could smell a crook." Selective breeding is the key. This is why I went back to the farm to start all over again. These WEBs are neither Scott nor JDJ and are the same as any old farmer remembers them. They are a completly different breed and were even when JDJ and AS were crossbreeding. Note the old ABs are shown in pics being kept chainned like ban-dogs. They could not be kept together except a male and female and even then they'd often fight each other.