English Bulldog Emporium
Bulldog History
The Dogger-type, as the Bulldog belongs to, is referred to as early as year 1121 b.c. in a chinese
document. The document tells us that some Tibetan delegators brought a dog as a gift for the Chinese
emperor. It was a Doggertype, in height 60 cm. at shoulder, and it was raised to hunt for people. At the
Inca-excavations dog-sculls of the Doggertype was found, but they are considered mainly to be of
Eastern origin. The dogger came to Greece from east about 500 b.c. and from there the Romans brought
some of them with them to the middle Europe some centuries later. In Liebfrauen Church in Arnstadt in
Germany you can see a Bulldog like dog on a tombstone from the year 1350. From 500-600 years back,
a German dog called Bullenbeisser or Bra banter is known. It wasn't very big, but rather compact, very
active and had longer legs than the English Bulldog, very much like the American Bulldog. It was used
for bear-, wolf-, wild boar and deer hunting.
The first time a Bulldog was named a Bulldog was in the year 1631. The dogs weighed about 45 kg and
butchers used them in relation to their occupation to catch or bring down game. Bulldogs quickly became
popular among gamblers, who placed bets on how long time it took one or several dogs to defeat a bull.
The bullfights however became prohibited in England in the year 1835, but continued many years after
that, secretly and in others countries. A German authority on dogs refers to the Bullenbeisser and the
Bulldog as being the same breed in the year 1876. These dogs have a faint resemblance to the American
Bulldog, where they from the last part of the nineteenth century has been bred towards the life-hampered
dogs they are today. Unfortunately not the only breed marked in that direction, where their ability to
survive exclusively is based on human care. Bulldog and Bullenbeisser are ancestors to the Boxer and is
also considered to be ancestors to a couple of other breeds.
John Kragenskjold
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