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Posted by Fenland Joe Link: Owl Hollow Kennels
on December 15, 2008, 4:36 pm, in reply to "The American Bulldog"
Message modified by board administrator December 20, 2008, 7:07 pm
A few links for the true working American Bulldog,
Joshua Kennels
White Knight American Bulldogs
Laura Kennels
Rowlands Doggehouse
Home of the original Bulldogs
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: The American Bulldog holds a certain
: fascination for me, i love to research the
: breed in depth like no other breed. I hope
: to aquire myself with one or two dogs
: sometime in the future,but until that time i
: have enjoyed researching the breed and will
: continue to do so. I've been to a few AB
: shows here in the UK, i've seen some good
: dogs, others not so good. It's this enormous
: variation that should make the buyer do some
: serious research. The main thing i'm after
: is the AB in it's most true, original and
: untouched form, the true working bulldog,
: the truest continuation of the original
: Bulldog of old England. As most of us know
: John d Johnson started out with these
: original Bulldogs bred in the deep south of
: America for a hundred years or so, described
: by some as looking like an oversized, white
: pitbull type. JDJ desired a bigger, bullier
: dog so began to change what he had by adding
: English Bulldog blood and Bullmastiff blood
: in the form of two pups he aquired from
: David Leavitt and breeding them into his
: strain, giving us the Johnson type American
: Bulldog. I agree that JDJ showed the world
: the American Bulldog by registering his dogs
: and by creating a market for these bigger,
: bullier looking dogs but i feel that this
: has been done at a serious price. By using
: EB blood and creating a bullier dog it has
: given modern breeders permission to breed
: from the bulliest to the bulliest and even
: in some cases adding more English Bulldog
: blood thus creating a dog that now looks
: more like an English Bulldog than an
: athletic, tough working Bulldog meant to
: work cattle and hunt wild boar. The truth is
: this, it doesn't take a genious to see that
: the same thing that happened to the original
: Bulldog of England is happening right here
: before our very eyes with the American
: Bulldog. In the EB'S case it was pug blood
: that was added and the extreme breeding for
: shorter faces and wider fronts that led to
: the demise of the original English Bulldog.
: And now in 2008 more than a hundred years
: on,modern EB blood has been added with it's
: miriad of health issues, a list so long it
: would take me an hour to write them out,
: modern breeders continue to breed for wide
: fronts, short bodies and the most extreme
: squashed in faces,
: with the
: breed that iconsider the nearest thing to
: the original Bulldog of England, the true
: working Bulldog. The truth is i love many
: Bully type AB'S but if we're talking about
: what the AB truely is and should be, it's
: not what these extreme Bully dogs are, there
: just heading in the wrong direction with
: regards to health and athleticism.
:
: So we know that Johnson/Bully types are the
: type that has been created for the buyers
: market,
: then who are the breeders that have held
: onto the original dogs, the true working
: AB'S?
: Some of the names and kennels to look out
: for to find the American Bulldog in it's
: most true, working original form :Scott,
: Hines,Williamson, Joshua
: Kennels, White Knights, Rowlands
: Doggehouse(UK),Caldeys(UK),Laura Kennels,
: Dorsey, Jones-Sandvalley,Stout,Stover.
:
: As i have said i really love the look of
: some of the bullier dogs, i can see why
: people want to breed these dogs, but some of
: these dogs should no longer be classed as
: American Bulldogs, they have turned into the
: recreation breed, the Olde English Bulldog
: and maybe they'll continue to change, ending
: up like the KC pug cross!!
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