ADBA’s Top Pointed Weight Pulling American Bully
JENSEN’S “A/A VIII” KING ROMEO”
Owned by Darren Jensen of Badland Kennel
The first APBT I ever owned was
around 1987. It was my first choice
when I become old enough to own
my own dog, I bought another
around 1996 and another soon
after that (a little brindle dog).
Tammy and I were married
in
2001
and
immediately
bought 2 dogs Bubafluff &
Aragon. One of the lady’ s that
helped me find “Aragon”, told me
about the ADBA dog shows. We
started going and doing a little
conformation with Aragon and a
third dog we bought “Q-Tip”.
At the second show we went
to, I noticed the weight pull and
watched a big Dagger dog pull a
cart that was over 10,000 lbs and
the way the dog pulled with all his
heart and I thought WOW!! I want
to do that with my dogs, I bought
a harness at that show and when
I went home I loaded up my dogs
with weight and couldn’t figure
dog show and found a puppy so she
could have a new companion…
“King Romeo” at 8 weeks.
Q-tip left, and Aragon right.
out why they would not pull it. So
after a few times I gave up and
put the harness in the garage….
Eight years later, my female
Bubafluff, was my only dog. She
was heartbroken after losing her
companion Aragon, so we went to a
I had never seen a dog with that
much energy, and around 4 months
old when trying to leash train him,
he would not stop yanking me
relentlessly. For some reason my
mind went back to the dog shows
and the weight pull harness and I
thought that maybe this dog would
pull weight, so I hooked up the
harnes, chain and weight and he ran
with it like he had nothing be
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