About bulldogs
Useful information
You can find more useful information from the home pages of the Bulldog Club of Finland.
A good source of information for finding out more about the pedigree of your bulldog is the Winsey Bulldog Pedigree Index where you can find information of over 200 bulldogs.
http://theblueposts.org/wimsey
Also a very good pedigree data is the Spanish Englsih Bulldog Pedigree Database. It consists thousands of pedigrees from all over the world.
English Bulldog Pedigree Database
There is some good literature about bulldogs to be found. The book Bulldogs today by the english breeder Chris Thomas (kennel Kingrock), the book Bulldogs, An owner's companion by Christian Bruton (kennel Kelloe) and the book Pet Owner's Guide to the Bulldog by Judith Daws (kennel Outdoors) offer matter-of-fact useful information of the breed.
Chris Thomas: Bulldogs today, Chris Thomas and Ringpress Books, Gloucestershire 1995
Christian Bruton: Bulldogs, An owner's companion, The Crowood Press, Wiltshire 1998
Judith Daws: Pet Owner's Guide to the Bulldog, Ringpress Books Limited, Gloucestershire 2000
Marjorie Barnard's book 20th Century Bulldog offers widely information about the history of the breed and bulldogs in various countries.
Marjorie Barnard: 20th Century Bulldog, Nimrod Press 1988
J. Hay Hutchinson's book from 1908 and colonel Bailey's book are classics of bulldog literature.
J. Hay Hutchinson: The Perfect Bulldog (1908)
Colonel Bailey C. Hanes: The New Complete Bulldog (fifth edition), Howell Book House Inc., New York 1991
Interesting things about bulldog breeding were written over a hundred years ago. Much of what is said in the book Bull-Dogs and Bull-Dog Breeding by H. St. John Cooper is important to know also today.
H. St. John Cooper: Bulldogs and Bulldog Breeding (new edition), Vintage Dog Books, Warwickshire, 2005
Dutch molosser breed specialist Bas Bosch has written a good book about bulldogs in various countries in 2008 and 2009. Some of our bulldogs and bulldogs bred by us have had the honour of being presented in the book.
Bas Bosch: The World of Bulldogs in 2008 and 2009, BBpress, The Netherlands, 2010
Much literature has been written about dog care and feeding the dog. The bulldog does not live only on dry doog food and his owners love. It can be useful to get acquinted also with natural care of the dog.
Alexandra Bastedo, Jeannie Kemnitzer: The Healthy Dog Book, Robson Books, London 1999
Can you train the bulldog? Yes you can as you can train the other dogs, but it requires much patience from the owner because the bulldog usually consideres carefully what he does and what he does not want to do.
Jan Fennell: The Dog Listener, Harper Collins Publishers, London 2000
Patricia B. McConnell: The Other End of the Leash, Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs, Random House Inc., New York 2002
