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Bantu Dog

One can clearly see the mother is an English Mastiff as has been reported in the Sporting Dog Journal. The "Bantu" pictured here though was not actually the first Swinford dog nor was he even the first "Swinford's Bantu." Earlier John Swinford bred them previously and produced the first Swinford's Bantu; unfortunately, the first Bantu died from a car accident. It was not until after John Swinford's death in October of 1971, that the second Swinford's Bantu became rather famous as a result of being published in both the July-August 1972 issue of Jack Kelly's Sporting Dog Journal and in Carl Semencic's first book. Hopefully this information will clear up some of the questioning about Swinford's actual breedings, for in Semencic's book the breeding of Bantu was not described, yet the breeding of some other Bandogs were. This incomplete information has mislead a number of people. Accurate reports of how Swinford's dogs were bred were reported in the Sporting Dog Journal but that was a very limited publication and was much harder for the general dog enthusiast to get a hold of. Many of the misconceptions pertaining to Swinford's breeding program originate from Semencic's book perhaps because a bandog named Thor was described as a first generation Bandog produced from a Neapolitan Mastiff and an APBT. This is true...and there were others with similar projects, but what was not mentioned by Semencic was the fact that Thor and many of these other types of Bandogs were not from the Swinford program.