Performance Testing Bandogs

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While the American Sentinel Canine Registry supports testing their dogs with protection work or legal hunting, we do NOT condone any illegal activities and certainly takes a strong position against dog fighting. Performance selection measures the quality of the dogs being tested. The American Sentinel Canine Registry (ASCR) only condones the use of humane measures of testing a dog's ability to sustain performance even in the face of stress by combining various testing measures of physical endurance (pre-exhaustion), mental endurance, and commitment to various threats as they can be applied in protection training scenarios for guard dog work or for catch dogs that are used to hunt dangerous game.

The ASCR chose to use the name American Sentinel to differentiate our program from the other “bandog” programs out there. This was done since the American Sentinel bandogs is proven to much higher standards than are the majority of "bandog programs" out there that lack strict performance selection requirements and have inconsistent breeding goals. 

The guidelines of the ASCR are a composite of carefully written works comprised of decades of study. The ASC breed standard establishes guidelines of breed selection based upon the grounds of performance measures including physical athleticism, mental determination, and protective performance in a ASC Breed Suitability Test (BST). The guidelines within the ASC Standard place performance above all else, but there are also guidelines of breed foundation as well as desired anatomical preferences described within the ASC Breed Standard. The only way a dog can be registered with the ASCR as a "American Sentinel Canine" is to pass the performance and type guidelines written within the ASCR Breed Standard.

If you are interested in obtaining more information about the ASCR, feel free to email me at americansentinelk9@gmail.com.  Breeders that register their dogs in the ASCR are expected to take no short cuts. They are expected to search for the best and model the breeding philosophies of the best. Combining this with the ASC Breed Suitability Test and an understanding of genetic principles, the ASCR hopes to continue the development of John's work, the performance bred American Sentinel Canines.

H. Lee Robinson, M.S.
Founder of the American Sentinel Canine Registry