Pitsky

The Pitsky is a hybrid dog, a combination of the American Pit Bull Terrier, a loyal and sturdy canine with a true zest for life and the athletic and enduring Husky. This particular crossbreed is being developed with contributions from the American Pit Bull Terrier as it is recognized by the United Kennel Club of Britain. The history of this breed is a bit muddled and somewhat contested in certain circles. The prevailing theory is that the Pit Bull was a descendant of fighting bulldogs bred to sporting terriers, a combination known at the time as bull-and-terriers, but there are experts who believe that there is very little terrier contribution and this breed more closely related to the bulldogs of the 1800s. While the United States, via the American Kennel Club, does not have any breed recognized as a Pit Bull Terrier, they do recognize the American Staffordshire Terrier, a dog similar enough that some individual canines have been registered as both an American Staffordshire in the United States and as an American Pit Bull in the United Kingdom. The Husky referred to in this combination is most likely to be the Siberian Husky, a dog that was originally developed by the nomadic Chukchi people of Russia at some point in prehistory. The earliest ancestors of the Siberian Husky dogs were likely used to hunt as well as to pull the sleds that contained their homes and lives. They were hard-working dogs that were integrated deeply into the everyday lives of the Chukchi people, bred for their endurance and their companionable natures. In some cases, the Husky contribution is an Alaskan Husky rather than a Siberian Husky. When breeds like German Shorthaired Pointers, Greyhounds, and Siberian Huskies were mixed with the dogs that were found in the Inuit villages in the early 1900s, they proved to be excellent sled dogs, much like the Siberian Husky. These dogs were frequently employed in the cold, frozen landscape of Alaska, where dog sleds were frequently the best option for transporting people and goods. In 1925, when a diphtheria epidemic hit the small town of Nome, both Alaskan and Siberian Huskies were plentiful among the dogs that transported the life-saving medicine through 658 miles of blizzard conditions from Nulato to Nome.