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As we already said, fighting dogs were used for different purposes:
- as wardogs
- for the hunting of dangerous game
- for fights against bears and lions
- for dog-fighting
- for chasing and killing rats
- for fights against badgers
- for other fights (monkeys, opossums, pigs, horses and donkeys, more rarely against man)
The foundation breed of these dogs were large, low-slung, massive dogs with very powerful build, large heads in comparison to their bodies and a tremendously threatening voice.