Bulldog Lore, Stories and Legends
Article 1 "A Good Bulldog is any Colour"
circa 2000-3000 BC The Bulldog is recorded in History
The Bulldog was created at least 3000 years ago has been known by many names (not a re-creation). Some of those are familiar to us some not and still others are lost in time, For example Bulldog, Bullenbeiser, Boxer and Pugnace are all names for the same breed (now canine family) of dog once upon a time. But what does that name mean . It means a dog that catches bulls (a Bull Biter, not a Bull Herder as well as horses etc). The very first Bulldogs were brindle. The Bulldog is a creation of the Ancient Britons. It is thousands of years old. It is written about by the Romans when they invaded Britain two thousand years ago. By then it came with brindle stripes (forest camouflage) or not and with or without a black mask. It's original Celtic name is lost in time but the Romans called it the "Pugnace" (Pug meaning "fist", "Fighter", Fighting Dog. aka Boxer). Its function now as then was as a fearless "holding dog" or "catch dog" (not a utility farm dog). Around 54 BC it is described as being used by the Britons to disrupt Roman cavalry units. The Bulldogs would run in, jump up and grab the Roman cavalry horses on the nose or jaw and hold on for grim death. The result was total chaos and effectively neutralized the cavalry as horses and riders were scattered. The Romans took the Briton's dogs back to Rome and pitted them against every kind of beast. Their conclusion was that The Bulldog (The Pugnace) was far superior to every other dog of the known world! The Briton's dog of course seeded many other breeds through the millennia. The modernist re-creation theory is a leftist lie. They try to re-write our history and destroy our hero's! Just as modernists try to change our language to "Standard" and "Classic". it's "Johnson & Performance" and so it will stay. There are of course those who are hardcore White Bulldog enthusiasts - I was one myself. As you dig deeper you find that a "Good Bulldog is any colour". And some Bulldogs became white fairly late in their development, approximately 2000+ years later.
Necessity is the mother of invention. The "Bulldog of History" has a continuous unbroken lineage from that time. How do we know? Because its purpose for which it was created for till this day is still needed. It became known as the "English Bulldog" or English White long after the infusion of blood from The "Alanis" from eastern Europe (no doubt itself descended from the Pugnace). In modern times it is called the "American Bulldog" or the "Boxer" and other less known names. Though both of these "modern" breed types have been greatly diminished in ability by the "The Show Fanciers". Their are still "fit for purpose" lines of these two "brother and sister" breeds available. Romans record two types of Pugnace. The smaller, hunter and the larger home protector. Nothing has changed. today we have the Johnson and the Performance. The lighter 60 pound hunters and the 90/100+ pound guardians were around from day dot and never vanished despite uneducated belief. There is a 100 pound Bulldog recorded in the creation of the Bull Mastiff. And you can see my Great Granddad's Boxer/Bulldog Baron below (at least 90-100 pounds). In fact The Pugnace is obviously the progenitor of The UK Mastiff. But that is the subject of another article.
Contrary to popular belief the English Bulldog never died out and neither did the original coloured Bulldogs. They were merely re-branded as they were in the 1980's in America. When the name "American Bulldog" was first coined. Below is a lithograph from 1791. And then a photo from the late 1950's showing the very same Brindle Bulldog. The later photo is of my great granddad and his bulldog "Baron". They look just like the Bulldogs I have today! As seen in the next photo. And further on, coincidentally the "Berwick Bulldog" looks exactly like my typical stock, That is the typical stock from "Grand Georgia Giants", Family Bulldogs with an Edge (not for fighting).
1790's AD
The DeepBlack Brindle Bulldog above and the Berwick Bulldog below (with white points)
1958 Approx "Baron" with my Great Granddad, "Valentine"
2025 AD Grand Georgia Giants "Ace Jack" owned by James Johnson
Above is a Black Brindle Bulldog and below another, GGG Black Betty with a "Berwick Bulldog Pattern" and look.
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