We simply call him terrier and the terrier part goes back to the Latin terra for earth. These dogs were supposed to dig up the earth and rout their quarry out of holes. The fox terrier was used for hunting foxes. The bull terrier is a mixture of the terrier and bull breeds. When we think of a bulldog we are apt to have in mind the modern English bull with the smashed-in face.
Old engravings show that the pit bull of that day actually had a long nose.
The derivation of the term bull is not certain but the dog probably received its title from bull-baiting, where dogs were set upon a bull in a fighting pit. There is a proud and intelligent dog, a hunter and retriever type, whose known history goes back almost 2000 years. This is the poodle, whose name comes straight from the German pudel , short for pudelhund. Time is fleeting. Madness takes its toll.