Size: Males and females: Height: 66-73cm. Weight: 120-140lbs Drives: Natural guardian ability is required.

Specials characteristic: Companionable with the family, intelligent, loyal and devoted to their master.

Temperament: A fearless adversary to anyone who threatens the Bandog’s master or property. Friendly with other animals and dogs. Displays a definite preference for its family, children included, but it is not a dog that gets along very well with a visitor to the home if his master is not at present.

Disposition: The Bandog protects their master against any danger, even to give their own life to protect him.

Body: Much more typical of the compact “Mastiffs” with a structure of a giant APBT, also retains a good deal of the agility passed on to it by the APBT.

Color: Different mixes of colors are acceptable, but most common colors are: yellowish or sandy grey, any brindle color, black, golden fawn, fawn and red. Other colors are allowed too, as is red and black on their noses.

Coat: Short, close and medium fine.

Ears: Cropped or natural.

Neck: Very strong, muscular and robust.

Eyes: Dark preferable, but should bear some relation to coat color.

Faults: Failure to be worked, failure to work successfully, producer of genetic problems in pups, poor immune system, affected by hip and elbow dysplasia. Excessively undershot to avoid difficult to eat and some diseases related to them.