British Buldog, British Buldog's Tales, British Buldog's Nose

Some Marvelous British Buldog's Tales, British Buldog Bibliography, British Buldog Books, British Buldog Book, Delicacy Of A British Buldog's Nose

British Buldog - 1901

Amongst the most popular breeds of late years, has been one that would not be generally expected to be found in that capacity, although it is a very old & national breed. Perhaps I should say that, in reference to all the companionable breeds I have mentioned in these articles, I mean more especially kept by ladies, as when one speaks of such dogs, one naturally thinks of animals not chained to a dog box, or shut up in a kennel outside, but brought into the house, &, literally "treated as one of the family." I refer to the British Buldog, & having owned & had to do with a great many of these, I can testify to their usual good temper & placidity of disposition, in spite of the many unfavourable comments we frequently hear about them. Indeed, it is a rare thing to meet with a bad tempered British Buldog, & the majority of them will submit to great liberties being taken, even by smaller dogs, rather than attempt to take their own part, & have little idea of fighting in the style practised by some other breeds. But if they once make up their minds to go for any person, or animal, they are difficult to dislodge when they have taken hold. The British Buldog sizes are very various, the dogs running from under forty pounds to over fifty-five pounds, & the bitches from under thirty-five to under fifty pounds, & of late years a class of "Toy British Buldogs' have been brought out, which I mention elsewhere. The British Buldog head large, small ears, rather prominent eyes, very short nose, chin rather turned up & generally British Buldog pugilistic look of the face, with the body rather heavy in front, swung between legs placed widely apart, back short & curved, technically called "roached," with mean hindquarters & a short tail, with a downward turn in it if not "screwed," are familiar features of the breed to most people knowing anything of it, & the British Buldog colours are white, white & brindle, white & Hound tan, white & black, brindle, brindle & white, brindle & fallow, fawn with black muzzle, fawn & white, red, red & white, red & black, black, & black & white. Of course the brindies, reds, & fawns run into different shades of each, but I think the foregoing contain nearly all the colours allowed by the British Buldog Clubs. British Buldog is a fascinating breed, & when once it has been taken up, is seldom altogether dropped, & I have known several generations of the same family keeping up the strain. I should say the mortality amongst British Buldog is as great as, or probably greater than, in any other breed of dog, particularly before they are a year old. Whether their being so much inbred, to preserve certain characteristics, or being so short faced as to interfere with their organs of respiration, are the causes, I will not pretend to say, but if you ask any British Buldog breeder, he will tell you what considerable losses he suffers every year. Another difficulty which would not be suspected, is that many of them are such bad "doers," that is, do not seem to have any appetite for their food. I remember congratulating an enthusiast of the British Buldog breed on the condition of his favourite, a large brindle & white, at least fifty pounds weight. "Yes," he said, "he is looking well, but for the last fortnight he has been living entirely on veal cutlets." I thought he would be an expensive boarder on such fare, but from my experience of the British Buldog breed & its owners, I doubt very much if any other kind of dog is so much pampered. British Buldogs are naturally slow & lazy in their movements, do not, as a rule, take much exercise, or go much into the open air, so have not much healthy appetite, but as a thin British Buldog is an abomination, their "condition " must be kept up.

British Buldog Bibliography - British Buldog Books - British Buldog Book

OUR FRiend the Dog A Complete Practical Guide to all that is known about every breed of dog in the world by Gordon Stables (eighth edition Dean London 1902)

DOD SHOws and Doggy People by Charles hHenry Lane (Hutchinson London 1902)

British Dogs Their points, selection, & show preparation by W.D. Drury & others (third eidtion L. Upcott Gill London & Charles Scribner’s Sons NY 1903)

The ESSEntial Bull-dog by Ian Dunbar

The History of the French Bulldog by W.J. Stubbs (privately printed pamphlet 1903 facsimile reprint FBCE April 1979)

The TWENTieth Century Dog (Non-Sporting) Compiled from the contributions of over five hundred experts by Herbert Compton Vol 1 Non-Sporting (pp 47 to 63) (Grant Richards London 1904) [Compton was the first dog lover to conduct a massive survey & then publish the results in a two volume work]

DOGS of All Nations Their varieties, Chraacteristics, Points etc by Count Henri De Bylandt (third edition 2 vols A.E. Kluwer Deventer Holland 1904)

Our FRIEnd, the Dog by Maurice Maeterlinck (Dodd Mead NY 1904)

Pet Owner's Guide to the Bulldog by Judith Daws

KENNel Club Dog Breed Series, by Michael Dickerson

Toy Dogs Their Points & Management in Health & Disease by Frank Townend Barton (R.A. Everett 1904)

DIALogues de bêtes Colette (Mercure de France 1904 and Sept Dialogues de bêtes (1905))

THE BULL-dog: An Owner's Guide to a Happy, Healthy Pet, Marie Andree, John Wiley & Sons, 128 pag.

THE DOG Book A Popular History off the Dog with Practical Information as to Care & Management of House, Kennel, & Exhibition Dogs; & DESCRiptions of All the Important Breeds by James Watson 2 vols (Doubleday Page NY 1905; William Heineman London 1906)

Bull-dogs & Bull-dog Breeding H. St. John Cooper; Toy Bull-dogs by Carlo F.C. Clarke (Jarrold London; Field & Fancy NY 1905)

DIE DEUTschen Hunde und ihre Abstammung by Richard Strebel (Elise Ertel Munich 1905)

MY BOOK of Little Dogs by Frank Townend Barton with plates by G. Vernon Stokes (Jarrold London 1905)

MY DOG by Maurice Maeterlinck (George Allen London 1906)

Socrates: Memoirs for English Readers from Xenophon's Memorabilia. By Edw. Levien.

The New Book of the Dog ed Robert Leighton A Comprehensive Natural History of British Dogs & their Foreign Relations with Chapters on Law, Breeding, Kennel Management & Veterinary Treatment (Cassell London 1907)

THE KENnel Encyclopaedia general editor J. Sidney Turner (The Encyclopaedic Press Sheffield 1907)

Words of Wellington : Maxims and Opinions of the Great Duke

DOGS ed by Frederick Freemann Lloyd & Charles G. Hopton (G.A. Melbourne NY 1907) [erroneously known as Melbourne’s Dogs]

BULL-dogs & Bulldog Men by H. St. John Cooper (Jarrold London, Field & Fancy NY 1908) [including two chapters on "Miniature Bulldogs" and six on "The Bouledogue Francais" with writings by C. Jemmett Browne, Lady Lewis & others]

The ROAD to Oz by Lyman Frank Baum illustrated by John R Neill (Reilly & Lee Chicago 1909) [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) was followed by another 18 books about Dorothy’s journey to Oz with Toto the French Bulldog - but beware - some editions have a Cairn Terrier.]

YOUR Bulldog, Robert Berndt, Guide to Owning an English Bulldog,John Gallagher

Dog People Are Crazy, 1978, by Maxwell Riddle

BORIs by Giovanna Zoboli & Francesca Bazzurro

CINDErella by Keith Harrelson, Hylas NY 2005

BEST in Show The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today by Edgar Peters Bowron, Carolyn Rose Rebbert, Robert Rosenblum, & William Secord

O’KLEin Animal Cartoonist text by Denis Montaut, Éditions Montaut Bordeaux France 2006

Cornelia & the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by Lesley M.M. Blume (Alfred A Knopf NY 2006)

PRINce Jan, St. Bernard, 1947, by Forrestine C. Hooker.

Coleridge's Christabel, and other Imaginative Poems. With Preface by Algernon C. Swinburne.

GRIP, a Dog Story, 1978, by Helen Griffiths - Bull Terrier

FraAngehco,Masaccio, and Botticelli. Fra Bartolommeo. Albcrtinelli, and Andrea del Sarto. Gainsborough and Constable. Ghiberti and Donatello, 2s. 6d.

New KNOWledge of Dog Behavior, 1963, by Clarence Pfaffenberger

OBEDience and Watchdog Traiining, 1978, by Jay Rapp

HANDling Your Own Dog for Show, Obedience and Field Trials, 1979, by Martha Covington Thorne

TRAIning Your Retriever (1980) by James Lamb Free

MESSEngers from Ancient Civilizations, 1995, by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

Dog BREAKing, 1928, by Genneral WN Hutchinson

TRAINing You to Train Your Dog (1952) by Blanche Saunders

DOG Behavior - Why Dogs do what they do, 1979, by Dr. Ian Dunbar

OFF-Lead The National Dog Training Monthly - several magazine issues from 1973 to 1976

New Owner's Guide to Bull-dogs, Hannk Williams & Carol Williams, TFH Publications, 160 pag.

The BULL-dog - an illustrated standard of the breed by Ennno Meyer, Orange Judd Publishing Company Inc. 1948, 151p. incl. index, statistics bl 1943 - 1947, black&white photographs and drawings. 244p.

Le CHIEN et Ses Races by Pierre Mégnin Le Chien D’Appartement (Vol 4) (Vincennes Paris 1910)

Jenkins, R. (1997). The Story of the Real Bulldog.

McDonald, J. (1985). The Book of the Bulldog.

The FRENCH Bulldog ed O.F. Vedder (magazine - 9 issues 1913 - 1914) [important historically]

Barks & Purrs by Colette Willy (Desmond Fitzgerald NY 1913) [the first English translation of Colette’s 1905 Sept Dialogues de bêtes]

BULL-Dogs & all about them by Henry St. John Cooper with Special Sections, including “The French Bull-dog” by C. Jemmett Browne (Jarrold London, Field & Fancy NY 1914)

Correggio, by M. E. Heaton, 2s. 6d. Delia Robbia and Cellini, 2s. 6d. Albrecht Durer, by R. F. Heath. Figure Painters of Holland

MAETERrlink’s Dogs by Georgette Leblanc - Maeterllinck (Dodd Mead NY, Methuen London 1919)

DOGS & I by Harding Cox (Hutchinson London 1923, Putnam’s NY 1924))

Our FRIENd the Dog by Maurice Maeterlinck Retold for Children by John Martin (Dodd Mead NY 1924)

BuLLDogs & all about them by Henry St. John Cooperr a new edition revised & partly re-written by F. Barrett Fowler (Jarrolds London 1925)

Dogs & how to know them by Edward C. Ash (Epworth London 1925)

The Delicacy Of A British Buldog's Nose

Of salt, man can perceive one part in 640 through his sense of taste; of quinine, one part in 152.000. Likewise, his optic nerve becomes conscious of a change of color when one part in 1,000,000 of methyl violet is added to colorless water. The delicacy of a man's olfactory nerve surpasses that of his optic nerve, as his optic nerve is more sensitive than the nerves of taste. One grain of musk will go on & on for days & weeks & even years permeating a whole room & writing the image of its odor upon the brain of man without apparent diminution. Yet man's nose is as irresponsive to the scents that stir the trained British Buldog to action as a hippopotamus is irresponsive to a dissertation on the fourth dimension. To what astonishing delicacy, therefore, must a British Buldog's olfactory nerve attain to enable him to detect such infinitesimal emanations! One cannot too highly extol the work of the hunting dog. As a recent writer says, "We all applaud the stiff antics of the high-school-trained horse & wax enthusiastic over the tricks of the lion-tamer's tawny pupil, but not one in fifty of us steps to reflect that the bird-dog displays an intelligence far beyond these. He ranges over the country as free as the winter wind, but always under perfect control. No bit guides him, yet he turns to the right or the left at the wave of a hand. No snapping whip compels obedience, but he obeys the call of a whistle promptly & cheerfully".

Some Marvelous British Buldog's Tales

As before stated, the stories of exceptional intelligence in British Buldogs are without number; but, alas, many of these seem to reflect the enthusiasm of the British Buldog lover rather than the observations of the cold seeker after truth. The London Spectator some years ago published a book filled from cover to cover with claimed-to-be-authentic stories of dogs. One story published told of an old mastiff that, wanting a fresh egg for dinner, caught a hen & carried her to his kennel, where he kept her a prisoner until she laid one, after which captor & captive became inseparable friends. Another story alleged that a Dr. Bar-ford's dog was muzzled, but managed to get out of the nosepiece, which he promptly hid. A policeman found him & summoned his master to court. The children of the family told the dog how wicked he had been to get his master into so much trouble, & added the information that he, too, would have to appear in court on a given day. Later the case was postponed, but the dog was in court as per schedule. Then there is the story of a dog which, on being rewarded with a bun for rescuing a drowning child, pushed another into the water so that he might get another bun. Still another story has it that a man on a walking tour in the Maine woods left his note-book at a lodge. He didn't have time to go hack for it, so the lodgekeeper held the tourist's glove to the dog's nose & commanded him to go back to the camp & get the book. In due time the dog was back with the forgotten diary.

British Buldog Bibliography - British Buldog Books - British Buldog Book

IL BULL-dog Inglese E Francese by Dott. Ernesto Tron (Editore Ultico Hoepli Milano 1946)

THE BOOk of the Dog Edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald (Nicholson & Watson London 1948)

DOGS in Britain A description of all native breeds & most foreign breeds in England by Clifford L.B. Hubbard (Macmillan London 1948)

SHOW Dogs of New Zealand by S.H. Rastall (self-published Wellington NZ 1950) [New Zealand's first comprehensive textbook on dogs]

CREATures Great & Small (Secker & Warburg London 1951, Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy NY 1957) [some of Colette’s work]

THE COMplete Dog Breeders’ Manual A working treatise on the science of breeding, managing, exhibiting & selling pedigree dogs by Clifford L.B. Hubbard (Sampson Low London 1954)

The BULL-dog Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, John F. McGibbon, 1996, Howell Book House

BULL-dogs, A complete Pet Owner’s Manual, Phil Maggitti, 1997, Barron’s Educational Series

WOMEn & Dogs A persnoal history from Marilyn to Madonna by Judith Watt & Peter Dyer,2005

MEN & DOgs A personal history from Bogart to Bowie by Judith Watt & Peter Dyer (Sort of Books London 2005)

BULLDogs Today, Chris Thomas, 1995, Seven Hills Book Distributors, ISBN 1860540058

THE NATIOnal Geographic Book of Dogs (National Geographic Society Washington D.C. 1958)

BULL-dogs by Gabrielle Forbush, The New Bulldog, Col. Bailey C. Hanes, Fifth Edition Published 1991, reprint Prior Editions 1981, 1973, 1966, 1956

California. See "Nordhoff.,, Cambridge Staircase (A). By the Author of "A Day of my Life at Eton". Small crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. dd.

Toy Bull-dogs, Bull-dogs & Bull-dog Breeding (artcile Country Life 29 April 1899 London)

A HISTory & Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Non-Sporting Division) by Rawdon B. Lee (second edition Horace Cox London 1899) [Third edition The Kennel Gazette London 1903 1909 second impression has a French Bulldog chapter with four pages of text & pictures of frenchies]

The BULLDOg A Monograph by Edgar Farman (The Stock Keeper Co London 1899 facsimile reprint Nimrod 1989)

A MANUAL of Toy Dogs How to Breed, Rear, & Feed Them by Mrs Leslie Williams (Edward Arnold London 1900)

ALL ABOUt Dogs A Book for Doggy People by Charles Henry Lane (John Lane London & NY 1900)

The BULl-dog Kennel Book and Toy Bulldog Breeder by H. St. John Cooper & Carlo F.C. Clarke (Jarrold London 1901)

NICHOlas Guide to Dog Judging

BEHAVior Problems in Dogs, 1975, by William E. Campbell

BULL-dogs, Gabrielle E. Forbush, TFH Publiactions, Inc., April 1996

The PRACTical Dog Book A Comprehensive Work dealing with the Buying, Selling, Breeding, Showing, Care & Feeding of the Dog by Edward C. Ash (Simpkin Marshall London 1930)

BULly und Mini Eine heitere Katzen = und Hundegeschichte. In Bildern u. Reimen v. K. Rohr (Verlag von J.F. Schreiber, Esslingen a N. und München 1931)

The BULldog, (Terra Nova Series), Diane Morgan

BULLDOG, Liz Palika

Milton's L'Allegro. Poetry of Nature. Harrison Weir. Rogers' (Sam.) Pleasures of Memory. Shakespeare's Songs and Sonnets. Tennyson's May Queen. Elizabethan Poets. Wordsworth's Pastoral Poems.

Fleig, D. (1996). History of Fighting Dogs.

Homan, M. (2000). A Complete History of Fighting Dogs.

Bulldogs Today, (Books of the Breed), Chris Thomas

VELAZQUEZ and Murillo. By C. B. Curtis. With Original Etchings. Royal 8vo, 31s. 6d.; large paper, 63s.

Victoria (Queen) Life of. By Grace Greenwood. With numerous Illustrations. Small post 8vo, 6s.

An Owner's Companion, Christian Bruton

Hugo (Victor) "Ninety-Three". Illustrated. Crown 8vo, dr.

The Bulldog -Yesterday, John F. McGibbon

Bulldogs For Dummies, Susan M. Ewing

The Guide to Owning a Bulldog, Eve Adamson

TFH Publications, 64 pg

The New Complete Bulldog, Col. Bailey C. Hanes

Hutchisson (W. H.) Pen and Pencil Sketches: Eighteen Years in Bengal. 8vo, 18s. Hygiene and Public Health. Edited by A. H. Buck, M.D

The Book of the Bulldog, JoanMc Donald Brearley

The Bulldogger, quarterly publication of the Bulldog Club of America. Included with each BCA membership.

The Book of the Bulldog, Joan McDonald Brearley, 1985, T.F.H. Publications

The Bulldog: An Owner’s Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet, Marie Andree, 1998, Howell Book House, ISBN 0876054327

Poe (E. A.) The Raven. Illustr. by Dore Imperial folio, 63s. Poems of the Inner Life. Chiefly from Modern Authors.

The New Bulldog, Col. Bailey C. Hanes (5th edition), 1991, Howell Book House

The Bulldog Monograph 2002, John A. Little, Ph.D., 2002, hard cover & paperback, ISBN 0-9721126-1-8 and ISBN 0-9721126-2-6

Bulldog Legacy, Dr. Saul Schor, 1994, Dr. Schor

Bulldogs - The Gorgeous Sourmug (1934) by J. Ross Nugent

The Blue Book of Bulldogs (1938) by The Pacific Coast Bulldog Club The Complete Bulldog (1926) by Walter E. Simmonds

20th Century Bulldog, Marjorie Barnard, 1988, Nimrod Press (England)

Caninestein, Unleashing the Genius in Your Dog, Betty Fisher & Suzanne Delzio, 1997, HarperCollins Publishers

Shakespeeare. Edited by R. Grant White. 3 vols., crown 8vo, gilt top, 36s.; edition de luxe, 6 vols., 8vo, cloth extra, 63s.

So Your Dog’s Not Lassie, Betty Fisher & Suzanne Delzio, 1998, HarperCollins Publishers

The Shaman’s Bulldog, A Love Story, Renaldo Fischer, 1996, toExcel.

Mollett (J. W.) Illustrated Dictionary of Words used in Art & Archaeology. Terms in Architecture, Arms, Bronzes, Christian Art, Colour, Costume, Decoration, Devices, Emblems, Heraldry, Lace, Personal Ornaments, Pottery, Painting, Sculpture, etc. Small 4to, 15s.

The Bulldog Annual, Annual Hardcover Volumes, 1993 thru Current Year, Hoflin Publishing, Inc., Wheat Ridge, CO.

A New Owner’s Guide to Bulldogs, Hank & Carol Williams, 1998, T.F.H. Publications, Inc.

Bulldog, 1960, by Evelyn Miller

DOGGIE Homes Barkitecture for your best friend by Dr Karen Tobias & Kenny Alfonso DIY Network, 2006

The FRENCH Bulldog History of the Origin of the Breed, Its Cultivation and Development editor O.F. Vedder (The French Bulldog Club of America & The French Bulldog Club of New England 1926

SHOW Dogs Their Points & Characteristics How to Breed for Prizes & Profit by Theo Marples (third edition Our Dogs Manchester 1926)

DOGS: Their History & Development by Edward C. Ash 2 vols (Ernest Benn London 1927)

Morley (H.) English Literature in the Reign of Victoria* 2000th volume of the Tauchnitz Collection of Authors. 18mo, 2s. 6d.

The KENNel Encyclopaedia by Frank Townend Barton (second edition Virtue London 1928)

Dog ENCYclopedia by William Lewis Judy (Judy Chicago 1925) [the 1936 second edition is substantially bigger, from 184 to 462 pages]

Leonardo da Vinci's Literary Works. Edited by Dr. Jean Paul Richter, Containing his Writings on Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, his Philosophical Maxims, Humorous Writings, and Miscellaneous Notes on Personal Events, on his Contemporaries, on Literature, etc.; published from Manuscripts. 2 vols., imperial 8vo, containing about 200 Drawings in Autotype Reproductions, and numerous other Illustrations. Price: Twelve Guineas.

Robin Hood; Merry Adventures of. Written & illustrated by Howard Pyle. Imperial 8vo, 15s.

BULLdogs: Everything About Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, Behavior & Training, Phil Maggitti, Barrons Educational Series

The ARTFul Dog Canines from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chronicle Books San Francisco 2006

The LITTLEle Big Book of Dogs edited by Alice Wong and Lena Tabori, Welcome 2006

BEST in Show The World of Show Dogs and Dog Shows by Bo Bengtson, 2008