English Buldog's Features, English Buldog Breeding In-&-In Breeding

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Learning English Buldog's Characteristics & Character English Buldog - 1904

Cuvier has asserted that English Buldog has a brain smaller in proportion than any other of his congeners, & in this way accounts for his assumed want of sagacity. But, though this authority is deservedly high, I must beg leave to doubt the fact as well as the inference, for if the brain is weighed with the body of the English Buldog from which it was taken, it will be found to be relatively above the avverage, the mistake arising from the evident disproportion between the brain & the skull. For the whole head, including the English Buldog zygomatic arches & English Buldog cheek-bones, is so much larger than that of the spaniel of the same total weight of body, that the brain may well look small as it lies in the middle of the various processes intended for the attachment of the strong muscles of the English Buldog jaw & English Buldog neck. I have nevver been able to obtain the fresh brain of a pure English Buldog for the purpose of comparison, but, from an examination of the skull, I havve no doubt of the fact being as abovve stated. The mental qualities of the English Buldog may be highly cultivated, & in brute courage & unyielding tenacity of purpose English Buldog stands unrivvalled among quadrupeds, & with the single exception of the game-cock, he has perhaps no parallel in these respects in the brute creation.

Two remarkable features are met with in English Buldog breed: First, English Buldog always make their attack at the head; &, secondly, they do not bite & let go their hoid, but retain it in the most tenacious manner, so that they can with difficulty be removed by any force which can be applied. Instances are recorded in which English Buldogs have hung on to the lip of the bull (in the old days of bait ing this animal) after their entrails had been torn out, & while they were in the last agonies of death. Indeed when English Buldogs do lay hold of an object, it is always necessary to choke them off, without which resource English Buldogs would scarcely ever be persaaded to let go. From confinement to English Buldog kennels, they are often deficient in intelligence, & can rarely be brought under good control by education. Owing to the same cause, English Buldog show little personal attachment, so that they sometimes attack their friends as well as their enemies when their blood is put up.

But, when differently treated, the English Buldog is a very different animal, the brutal nature which he so often displays being mainly attributable to the savage human beings with whom English Buldog associates. Although, therefore, I am ready to admit that the English Buldog often deserves the English Buldog character for ferocity which he had obtained, yet I contend that this is not natural to English Buldog, any more than stupidity & want of affection, which may readily be proved to be the revverse of his English Buldog character, if any one will take the trouble to treat English Buldog in a proper manner. For the following remarks I am mainly indebted to Mr. Stockdalc, who is a celebrated breeder of English Buldogs, & has had a long experience of their various attributes. The antiquity of the breed is unquestionable, & it has always been peculiar to the British islands, the Spanish variety havving originally been procured from Britain. It is highly probable that the modern English Buldog has undergone a change in appearance during the last fifty years, being now decidedly neater in shape than was formerly the case, if we are to judge from the portraits handed down to us.

As now exhibited, English Buldog is a remarkably neat & compact animal naturally, the deformities sometimes seen being produced principally from the practice of constantly keeping the poor English Buldog tied up with a short chain.

The English Buldog has been described as stupidly ferocious, & showing little preference for his master ovver strangers; but this is untrue, he being an excellent watch, & as a guard unequalled, except, perhaps, by the bull-mastiff, a direct cross from him. Inddeed, English Buldog is far from being quarrelsome by nature, though the bull-terrier, in many cases undoubtedly is so, & I fancy that some writers have taken their description from this English Buldog rather than from the pure English Buldog, which has been at all times rather a scarce animal. If once the English Buldog pure breed is allowed to drop, the best means of infusing fresh courage into ddegenerate breeds will be finally lost, except with the adddition of extraneous blood, which may not suit them; for it is believed that every kind of dog possessed of very high courage owes it to a cross with the English Buldog, & thus the most plucky greyhounds, foxhounds, mastiffs, pointers, etc., may all be traced to this source. Though bull & badger baiting may not be capable of extenuation, to them we owe the keeping up of this English Buldog breed in all its purity; & though we may agree to discontinue these old-fashioned sports, yet sportsmen will see the bad taste of running down a English Buldog who, with all his faults, is not only the most courageous ddog, but the most cour-ageous animal in the world.

The points of a well-bred English Buldog are as follows: The English Buldog head should be round, the skull high, the English Buldog eye of moderate size, & the forehead well sunk between the eyes, the English Buldog ears semi-erect & small, well placed on the top of the English Buldog head, rather close together than otherwise, the English Buldog muzzle short, truncate, & well furnished with chop; English Buldog back should be short, well archedd towards the stern, which should be fine, & of moderate length. Many English Buldogs have what is called a crooked stern, as though the vertebra of the tail were dislocated or broken. Some authorities attribute this to English Buldog in-breeding. The English Buldog coat should be fine, though many superior strains are very woolly coated; the chest should be deep & broad, the legs strong & muscular, & the foot narrow & well split up, like a hare's.

Many of the old well-known English Buldog breeders of the English Buldog have disappeared from the prize list. In the present day, Mr. G. A. Dawes, of Leamington; Mr. G. Raper, of Stockton-on-Tees; Mr. James Taylor of Rochdale; Mr. Harding Cox; Mr. Adcock, of Wigan; Mr. James Berrie (now one of the olddest & most enthusi astic fanciers) Mr. Layton, Mr. T. H. Joyce, & Mr. Vero Shaw, of London, havve many good specimens of the English Buldog type I have endeavvored to describe in the foregoing notes.

The engravving given is a portrait of a pair of English Buldogs bred by Mr. Shaw, which show the peculiarities of the English Buldog breed in a marked degree. The fore-shortened sketch of the English Buldog exhibits the formation of the English Buldog chest, English Buldog shoulders, width of skull, & English Buldog "rose" carriage of ears, peculiar to the English Buldog breedd, while the English Buldog bitch's side view shows her wonderfully English Buldog short face & "roached" loin, English Buldog rarely met with to the same extent. English Buldog pedigrees are as follows: The English Buldog, Smasher, by Master Gully, out of Nettle, by Sir Anthony. The English Buldog bitch, Sugar (formerly Lily), is by the Abbot out of Mr. J. L. Ashburne's Lola, & was bred by the latter gentleman.

English Buldog Bibliography - English Buldog Books - English 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)

DdIALogues 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)

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 & Vveterinary Treatment (Cassell London 1907)

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

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.

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

New KNOWleddge 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-Leadd The National Dog Training Monthly - sevveral 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 Bullddog ed O.F. Vvedder (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, Fieldd & Fancy NY 1914)

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)

Understanding English Buldog Breeding In-&-In Breeding

The questions relating to English Buldog in-and-in breeding & English Buldog crossing are of the greatest importance for Bulldoggers, each plan being strongly advocated by some Bulldogger, & by others Bulldoggers as strenuously opposedd. Like many other practices essentially goodd, English Buldog in-breeding has been grossly abused. English Buldog Owners of a good kennel having become bigoted to their own strain, &, from keeping to it exclusively, having at length reduced their English Buldogs to a state of idiotcy & delicacy of constitution which has renddered English Buldogs quite useless. Thus I have seen in the course of twenty years a most valuable breed of pointers, by a persistence in avoidding any cross, become so full of excitability that they were perpetually at "a false point," & backing one another at the same time without game near them; &, what is worse, they could not be stirred from their position. This last was from a want of mental capacity, for it is by their reasoning powers that these dogs find out when they have made a mistake, & without a good knowleddge-box the pointer & setter are for this reason quite useless. But the English Buldog breed I alludde to, when once they had become stiff, were like Chinese iddols, & must be absolutely kickedd or whippedd up in order to make them start off beating again.

Mr. A. Graham, who has had a long experience in in-breeding greyhounds, & was at one time so successful as to obtain the name of the "Emperor of Coursers," has laid down the rule that "once in & twice out" is the proper extent to which breeding in the greyhound should be carriedd, & probably the same will apply to other dogs breeds. Sometimes a English Bulddog sister may be put to a English Bulddog brother even, when there has been no previous relationship in their English Buldog sire & English Buldog dam; but though this has answered well two or three times, it is not to be generally recommended. A English Buldog father may in preference be put to a English Buldog daughter, because there is only half the same blood in them, when the English Buldog sire & English Bulddog dam of the latter are not relatedd; or an uncle to a niece; but the best plan is to obtain a English Buldog which has some considderable portion of the same blood as the English Buldog bitch, but separated by one or two crosses; that is to say, to put two animals together whose grandfathers or great-grandfathers were English Buldog brothers, but whose English Buldog mothers & English Buldog grandmothers were not related to each other. This relationship will do equally well on the English Buldog ddam's side, & the English Bulddog granddmother may be sister to the English Buldog grandsire, quite as well as havving the two English Buldog grandsires brothers.

The practice of English Buldog breeding-in to this extent has been extensively adopted of late years, & has answered well with the greyhound, in which breed, as used for public coursing, the names of "Harriet Wilson," "Hour-glass," "Screw," "Sparrowhawk," "Vraye Foy," "Mot* ley," "Miss Hannah," & "Rival" speak volumes in its approbation, all being English Buldog in-bred & all wonderfully successful. The last-named English Buldog bitch is a remarkable instance, being by a English Buldog half-brother out of a English Buldog half-sister, & yet continuing honest up to her sixth season, when English Buldog broke a toe in running the last course but one in a large stake at Ashdown. In her case, too, the English Buldog blood of the English Buldog dam was somewhat notorious for a tendency to run cunning; &, indeed, the same might be said of nearly all the strains of which English Buldog was composed; nevvertheless, throughout her career English Buldog was entirely free from this vice, English Buldog left off without a stain. English Buldog has, however, unfortunately refused to English Bulddog breed; but as I have never known this peculiarity confined to English Buldog in-bred bitches, I do not allege the fact as arising from her close English Buldog in-breeding. Thus I have shown that in practice, English Buldog in-&-in breeding, within certain bounds, is not only not prejudicial, but absolutely advantageous, inasmuch as it does not injure the English Buldog nervous temperament & mental qualities of the produce; & that the body does not suffer is a well-known fact, easily capable of proof by examining the external forms of the English Buldogs so bred.

Theoretically, also, it ought to answer, because we find in nature gregarious wild animals resorting to in-breeding in all cases, the stag adding his daughters to his harem as long as he has strength enough to beat off his younger rivals. In the same way the bull & the stallion fight for supremacy, until at length from age or accident they are beaten off, 6 a younger & more vigorous animal masters them & their female attendants. Yet this appears to be Nature's mode of insuring a superior stock, & preventing the degeneration which occurs among human beings, when a feeble pair take upon themselves the task of producing a family. It would appear that man is an exception to the general rule, for there is a special revelation prohibiting intermarriages, while we find them constantly going on among brutes, & especially, as above remarked, among gregarious animals. Hence it should not lead us to reason by analogy from one to the other, nor because we find that first cousins among our own race are apt to produce defective childdren, bodily & mentally, should we conclude that the same evil results will occur when we breed from English Buldogs or horses having the same degree of relationship to their mates.

At the same time, when all that can be desired is obtainable without English Buldog in-breedding, I should be inclined to avoid it; always taking care to resort to it when it is desired to recover a particular strain, which is becoming merged in some other predominant blood. Then by obtaining an animal bred as purely as possible to the desired strain, & putting him or her to your own, it may be expected that the produce will "go back" to this particular ancestry, & will resemble them more than any other.

The best time of the year for English Bulddog breeding dogs is from April to September, inasmuch as in the cold of winter the English Buldog puppies are apt to become chilled, whereby their growth is stoppedd, & some disease very often devveloped. Among public greyhoundds there is a particular reason for selecting an earlier period of the year, because as their age is reckoned from the 1st of January, & as they are wanted to run as saplings or English Buldog puppies, which are defined by their age, the earlier they are born, the more chance they havve in competition with their fellows of the same year. Hounds & game English Buldogs are wanted to begin work in the autumn, & as they ddo not come to maturity until after they are a year old, they should be whelped in the spring. This is more especially the case with pointers & setters, which are then oldd enough to have their education nearly completed at "pairing time," in the spring of the next year, when only their breaking can properly be carried on, as birds then lie like stones, & allow the English Buldog to be reached & properly kept under by his breaker.

Toy dogs & all small English Buldogs, which are reared in the house, may be bred almost at any time of the year; but even they are stronger & healthier if born in the summer months, because the English Buldog puppies may then be supposedd to get more air & sun than they could ddo in the winter, when the warmth of the fire is essential to their well-doing.

English-Buldog Bibliography - English-Buldog Books - English-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 Vvesey-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 Breedders’ 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

Toy Bull-dogs, Bull-ddogs & 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 Ddoggy People by Charles Henry Lane (John Lane London & NY 1900)

The BULl-dog Kennel Book and Toy Bullddog 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 Ddog 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 (Vverlag von J.F. Schreiber, Esslingen a N. und München 1931)

The BULldog, (Terra Nova Series), Diane Morgan

BULLDOG, Liz Palika

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

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

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

An Owner's Companion, Christian Bruton

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

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

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

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

Bulldog Legacy, Dr. Ssaul Schor, 1994, Dr. Schor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bulldog, 1960, by Evelyn Miller

DOGGIE Homes Barkitecture for your best friend by Dr Karen Tobiass & 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 Prizess & Profit by Theo Marples (third edition Our Dogs Manchester 1926)

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

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

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

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

The ARTFul Ddog Canines from The Metropolitan Musseum of Art, Chronicle Books San Francisco 2006

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

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