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Hi, many of you have had questions that I would like to take the opportunity to address for you.
As always if you should have any questions that are not answered here please feel free to contact us.
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ARE YOUR BULLDOGS "AKC" ENGLISH?
I WANT A DOG WITH A CHAMPIONSHIP PEDIGREE, WHY AREN'T YOURS?
WHY ARE YOUR PUPPIES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN A LOT OF OTHER ONES I SEE OUT THERE?
WHY DO YOU HAVE SO FEW LITTERS?
WHY DID YOU GET INTO THIS AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DOING IT?
WHEN I TALK TO OTHER PEOPLE, THEY TELL ME THAT THEIR PUPS ARE PERFECTLY HEALTHY, BECAUSE THE ARE OLDE ENGLISH. YOU DO NOT SAY THIS WHY? DOESN'T IT HURT YOU NOT TO STATE THAT ALL OF YOUR PUPS ARE PERFECT?
WHY DO YOU NOT ACCEPT CHECKS AS PAYMENT FOR YOUR PUPS?
WHY DO YOU NOT SELL YOUR DOGS TO ANYONE THAT HAS THE MONEY TO BUY THEM?
YOU DO NOT LET PEOPLE COME TO YOUR HOUSE TO SEE THE DOGS, WHY?
YOU HAVE STATED THAT BULLDOGS ARE LIKE POTATOE CHIPS THAT YOU CANNOT STOP WITH JUST ONE, THIS SEEMS A LITTLE PUSHY ARE YOU TRYING TO SELL ANOTHER DOG?
WHAT IS THE TEMPERMENT OF A BULLDOG ARE THEY GOOD WITH CHILDREN? OTHER ANIMALS?
ARE THEY GOOD GUARD DOGS?
I HAVE HEARD THAT BULLDOGS DROOL, FART, AND SNORE IS THIS TRUE?
OK I HAVE A SILLY QUESTION, WILL THE PUPPIES BITE AND CHEW WHEN THEY COME TO THEIR NEW HOME?
I HAVE BEEN TO OTHER BREEDER'S FACILITIES AND THEY KEEP THE PUPS CAGED UNTIL THEY ARE READY TO GO HOME. IS THIS HOW YOUR PUPS ARE RAISED?
I JUST WANT TO DEAL WITH YOU BY EMAIL, WHY DO I HAVE TO CALL AND TALK TO YOU IN PERSON?
ARE YOUR BULLDOGS "AKC" ENGLISH?
NO, OUR PUPS ARE DUAL REGISTERED WITH THE CKC AND WITH THE IOEBA AS PUREBRED OLDE ENGLISH BULLDOGGES. HOWEVER WE DO DIFFER FROM MANY OLDE BREEDERS IN THAT WE DO NOT WISH TO CREATE ANOTHER TYPE OF DOG, JUST A HEALTHIER BULLDOG. SO FAR SO GOOD, OUR DOGS ARE HEALTHIER, HEARTIER, CAN STAND TEMPERATURE EXTREMES. THEY CAN RUN,JUMP,CHASE FRISSBEE'S, SWIM (MOST OF THEM) PLAY OUT IN THE YARD WITH YOU OR THE KIDS ALL DAY WITHOUT DROPPING FROM HEAT EXHAUSTION. THEY HAVE A LONGER LIFE SPAN THAN THE ENGLISH, THEY FREE MATE AND FREE WHELP. THEY ARE ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME SIZE AS THE ENGLISH STANDARD AND THEY ARE 76% OR HIGHER ENGLISH WITHOUT ALL OF THE HEALTH DEFECTS AND HEARTBREAK NOT TO MENTION MEDICAL EXPENSES THAT CAN ACCOMPANY AN ENGLISH. ALSO WE DO NOT USE AGGRESSIVE BREEDS LIKE PITTBULLS, SO YOU KEEP THAT SAME WONDERFUL BULLY TEMPERMENT. I borrowed this information from Michael Weldon, it fits not only the AKC but all registries in my opinion:
You thought AKC registration meant good quality. NOPE.
The truth is...
The AKC will register any puppy whose parents are already registered.
The AKC registered those parents because their parents were already registered.
And the AKC registered their parents because...
You get the idea.
Registration is a mechanical process, a chain of numbers.
You send the AKC money.
If the owners of your puppy's parents and grandparents were all good doobies who kept the chain intact by sending in their own money, the AKC will insert your puppy's name into their database, too.
They will send you a piece of paper with a number on it. Voila...she's registered.
"But what about a pedigree? Doesn't that mean something?"
Send more money, and the AKC will access their database again. It will spit out the names of your puppy's parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, as many generations as you're willing to pay for. Voila -- her pedigree.
That's all a pedigree is -- a list of names.
Registration papers and pedigrees don't tell you a single thing about a dog other than its place in the chain of names.
To get registration papers or a pedigree, a dog doesn't have to meet any qualifications of health, temperament, behavior, or sound structure.
None whatsoever. A dog can be purple, sickly, aggressive, obese, ears pointing every which way -- and the AKC will give them the same kind of registration number they give to the Best of Breed winner at the Westminster Kennel Club show.
"Good grief! And here I thought AKC registered meant good!"
Don't be fooled. Registration papers don't suggest quality in a dog any more than they suggest quality in a car. Does buying a "registered" car mean it won't be a clunker? Of course not!
In fact, registration papers suggest quality in cars more than in dogs, because in most states a car can only be registered if it has passed a smog check or a mechanical safety check. The AKC registers dogs with no health or safety checks at all.
Every year, thousands of AKC registered litters are produced. The majority of them are of poor quality -- because good quality would require the breeder to have some knowledge of genetics.......
Hopefully you will never again
make the mistake of thinking that the
existence of AKC papers or a pedigree
has anything whatsoever to do
with a dog's quality.
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I WANT A DOG WITH A CHAMPIONSHIP PEDIGREE, WHY AREN'T YOURS?
Our dogs are not AKC registered as the AKC does not yet recognize the Olde English Bulldogge. Like we explained earlier about papers, championship bloodlines can be very misleading. If I have an AKC registered dog and I take it to a backwater town show and I am the only person with that breed that shows up, guess what my dog wins. All I have to do is enter several more of these shows and voila I have a champion dog! Just because you have champions in your pedigree DOES NOT mean that your dog or his ancesters were good enough for Westminister, it just means that they won a few shows. This is more a marketing tool for breeders to make you think you are getting a better dog and to justify them charging you more money for that pup. Over the years people have been paper trained into thinking that papers mean everything, and at one time MANY, MANY years ago they did, but not in today's market. Don't be fooled there are many ways to manipulate the registries and get dogs registered that should not be and to falsify info on pedigrees and don't think for a minute that there are not breeders out there who do it every day.
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WHY ARE YOUR PUPPIES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN A LOT OF OTHER ONES I SEE OUT THERE?
Well this is an easy one, but there are serveral answers. Keep in mind that they aren't any more expensive than an average "AKC" English. When you take into account the original cost, the probable medical bills that you may have to incur, and the shorter estimated life span of an English, you are actually coming out ahead. Number one, I found through trial and error, and at great loss both financially as well as emotionally that when it comes to Bulldogs, you get what you pay for. I have purchased dogs from as little as $600 and as expensive as $4000, I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE LOWER PRICED DOGS ANYMORE! They were either sick, defective, died, or unable to be bred. So we found them loving homes and had them fixed. Then there were those that we couldn't even identify as "Bulldogs" anymore once they grew up. This is not to say that all lower priced pups are not good dogs, this was just our unfortunate experience and that of many of our friends and patrons. The second reason is that our dogs are well worth the price, they are healthy, well adjusted, beautiful, very bully and full of wrinkles. We do not sacrifice the "Bulldog" look and structure to "improve" the breed, we didn't have to. We breed only from the best stock and therefore get only the best puppies. Our goal is not to create a new animal but to improve where we can on an already AWESOME dog. Also we do not breed our dogs back to breeds such as Pitts, Sharpei, Boxers, etc, and who knows what just to get a fast selling look, this is done in my opinion at the expense of the pups as these breeds have their own defects and by mixing the two you are potentially creating a VERY defective animal. Nor do we breed to certain other breeds in order to get big litters so that we can sell more pups. When people go to purchase a Bulldog they are looking for a specific type of animal with a specific temperment and look, we try our best to honor that in our choice of breedings. Our dogs are our family, they live with us and sleep with us, they are not money making machines. Finally and the most important reason to me, I charge what I do for our pups because I know that if you are willing to invest that much in your pup that you really want him/her and that you will keep them and love them as much as we love ours. We invest alot of time, money and emotion in our babies and we do not want them to end up in the wrong place with the wrong people.
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WHY DO YOU HAVE SO FEW LITTERS?
I do not breed my girls as a commodity, they are my babies and their health is ALWAYS my first concern. I am not running a puppy mill and my goal is not to get rich, as a matter of fact, if you are breeding your dogs properly and responsibly, you don't make a whole lot once you account for all of your expenses. I also do not own 30 females, we have just enough for each of us to have a bedmate! We are not a business these dogs are our hobby and our loves!
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WHY DID YOU GET INTO THIS AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DOING IT?
I started in this in 1995 when my father was diagnosed with Alzheimers. I chose to give up my career in order to care for him. Dad suggested after we had been blessed with Brady that I should breed puppies. At first I thought he was crazy, but he knew me so well. Dad understood that I had NEVER not worked and that sitting at home was driving me bonkers. He also knew that I loved Brady to destraction and that I would love to be able to take care of Dad and still make a little something just to feel that I was contributing to the family financially. The idea of making little Brady's was a big thrill until I started to do my research.
WOW, did I really want to do this, it wasn't just about playing with puppies and breeding animals together because they were cute or that they could make some money. What I found was that there was LITTLE money to be made, there were many responsible decisions that had to be made when breeding two dogs together. The time involved in taking care of a litter is litterally 24/7 for the first two weeks. Puppies can die! Sometimes breedings do not take. Dogs are EXPENSIVE to feed, take care of medically, and buy toys and accesseries for, etc., etc., etc. I also found that after 2 full years of research that I DIDN'T know JACK! I bought the wrong dogs, I was scammed, lied to and misled. I lost dogs to congenital illnesses. Some of the dogs we had didn't even look like a bulldog. I was heartbroken, nearly broke and ready to quit!
But I persisted, changed direction and found our niche. I also found that it WAS possible to do what I wanted without changing the breed entirely. That I could breed a bulldog that was healthier, more active, temperature tolerant, and that lived longer than the traditional "English". I also found that you do not have to invest thousands of dollars in medical expenses yearly to have a "BULLY" Bulldog. Our dogs are free breeding, and free whelping they do not need C-sections or Artificial Insemination in order to have a healthy litter of puppies. They romp in the yard with the kids, they swim (well some sink!). They run hard and jump high, they are regular dogs! They can be outside in 95 degree heat and they don't drop dead from heat exhaustion. They have all the personality of an English without many of the health issues.
I finally found IT, my answers, and I was creating healthy beautiful pups without all the other sacrifices. So here we are today helping our babies make these beautiful pups and being able provide people with the wonderful experience and unique joy of having a "BULLY" as an additional family member.
As long as we continue to do this I will keep on doing this thing that I have found and love so well.
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WHEN I TALK TO OTHER PEOPLE, THEY TELL ME THAT THEIR PUPS ARE PERFECTLY HEALTHY, BECAUSE THE ARE OLDE ENGLISH. YOU DO NOT SAY THIS WHY? DOESN'T IT HURT YOU NOT TO STATE THAT ALL OF YOUR PUPS ARE PERFECT?
Maybe it does, I am not really sure, and I do not really care. I was lied to and mislead so often in the beginning that I WILL NOT do this to another person. The truth is we are dealing with a potentially defective breed of animal and anyone that tells you that they have perfectly healthy dogs is LYING to you. You may produce litter after litter of healthy dogs but you CANNOT control genetics so somewhere down the line it could be two or ten generations into your lines, something awful could potentially happen. I do not kid myself or my patrons about this. Genetics are what they are. All you can do in my opinion as a responsible breeder is try your darndest not to make any errors in judgement, never repeat a defective breeding, and always remember that you are creating a living being and that all of your decisions will affect this little animal for its whole life and if you do it wrong you can kill, maim, or harm those pups. That is more than I could bare, breeding a litter knowingly aware that there could be problems and doing it anyway for the money. So I tell my patrons truthfully that I can not and will not tell them that these pups are perfect, that is why we offer a health agreement to protect our patrons from being taken advantage of. We only want everyone especially the puppies to be healthy and happy in their journey together. As far as the title of "OLDE ENGLISH" goes, I really do not think that my dogs totally fall into that catagory, there are so many varied differences, you can find "OLDIES" anywhere from 50 to 150 pounds, they can be 15 inches or 30 inches tall there are too many variables for my dogs to fit in, what do I call them? Just bulldogs that is what they truly are.
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WHY DO YOU NOT ACCEPT CHECKS AS PAYMENT FOR YOUR PUPS?
Easy I still have several bad checks that were written to me by various potential owners. Needless to say I am twice bitten and now much wiser. I do not mean for this to be a reflection on any of my patrons, I am simply protecting myself, I hope that you can understand. I do however take Paypal which protects both the buyer and the seller. Hopefully it also puts you at ease that your protection is just as important to me as my own!
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WHY DO YOU NOT SELL YOUR DOGS TO ANYONE THAT HAS THE MONEY TO BUY THEM?
I am very particular about the new family that our puppy is going to become a member of. I have invested myself into these babies since the day I knew that they were coming. I am very proud of what we produce and do not want them to end up in the wrong hands. I would never place any of my girls with a breeder that I did not know VERY well, they are not machines to be used and abused by overbreeding them. I never want to hear that any of our pups are sent to a shelter, or given to someone unknown to us, because the person who brought them home was not fully aware of all the unique qualities of the breed. I want to follow these pups through their life and see how they grow both because of my attachment to them as well as from a breeder's prospective. I want to know that they are everything that we hoped they would be. To me this is all part of being a responsible breeder, our pups are not on a shelf to fly out the door with just anyone never to be seen or heard from again. I have a responsiblilty to my patrons and our pups to continue to produce the very best pups possible. I will never know this if I do not keep track of them and make sure that all is well.
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YOU DO NOT LET PEOPLE COME TO YOUR HOUSE TO SEE THE DOGS, WHY?
This is strictly for safety reasons. As I have stated, our dogs are a part of our family, they live in our house with our family. There are a lot of crazy people in the world today and I do not want them to be able to harm my family or try to steal our babies. We did not always do this, but after that poor girl was murdered and her baby taken out of her body we decided that it just was not worth the risk. It also seems that monthly I am reading about someone else who has had all of their dogs stolen out of the yard. I have no problem showing any or all of our babies to anyone just not at my home.
When we made this decision, my first reaction was if I heard this from someone I would be very skeptical, I would want to see their "facilities" (we don't have any, just bedroom's and a yard) and I would want to see their dogs. I understand this totally, but my family and my dogs come first if people are uncomfortable with this decision there are more than enough breeders out there trying to sell them a dog.
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YOU HAVE STATED THAT BULLDOGS ARE LIKE POTATOE CHIPS THAT YOU CANNOT STOP WITH JUST ONE, THIS SEEMS A LITTLE PUSHY ARE YOU TRYING TO SELL ANOTHER DOG?
In my humble opinion this is simply a statement of FACT! I have yet to place a pup or talk to anyone who has a BULLY who has been able to stop with just one! They are just that amazing. You may not get a second pup from me (I would hope that you would of course), but you will more than likely get at least that second pup. I warn people about this becasue it can come as a surprise to some people just like it did to us! Each and every one of our babies is as different as can be from the next, they are each very much their own individual selves.
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WHAT IS THE TEMPERMENT OF A BULLDOG ARE THEY GOOD WITH CHILDREN? OTHER ANIMALS?
ARE THEY GOOD GUARD DOGS?
I would leave any one of our Bullies alone with a newborn baby and not think twice! They absolutely LOVE children. If they hear a child then they will drop what they are doing and go and find them. They get upset if they hear a child cry, they want to make it better. They are ideal for families with children of any age. They are just as ideal for singles in apartments, they are extremely adaptive and very versatile.
Our dogs get along well with the other animals in the house, they play with the cats and rarely go into dog/cat mode! However it can happen when they are in a large group.
NO Bullies ARE NOT GUARD DOGS! They are loyal and loving and very friendly but they are not made to go on the attack. They can be mildly protective but nothing like a dog mean't for protection, ie: a Dobie or Rottie, or Shepard,etc. If you are looking for a dog for protection this is probably not the breed for you.
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I HAVE HEARD THAT BULLDOGS DROOL, FART, AND SNORE IS THIS TRUE?
My dogs only drool at normal times, like when you are sitting in front of them and eating a T-bone! They do leak a bit after they have had some water, but I would not consider them "droolers". Yes Bullies fart, A LOT, I have changed food over the years and have never been able to "STOP" it totally, it is something you get used to and at times even have a good laugh about. Yes Bullies snore, some louder than others. Our family considers it our background symphony, I can no longer sleep at night without at least one of them in the room or on the bed with us making their own special music!
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OK I HAVE A SILLY QUESTION, WILL THE PUPPIES BITE AND CHEW WHEN THEY COME TO THEIR NEW HOME?
SILLY?????? I have a few choice words for this question, but YES they bite and chew. They are babies and they are teething. Human children will pick up anything and everything and put it into their mouth at this age. A puppy is no different. It is up to you to direct your pup as to what is ok to chew on and what is not. If this is a real concern then you do not need a BULLY or any other puppy for that matter!
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I HAVE BEEN TO OTHER BREEDER'S FACILITIES AND THEY KEEP THE PUPS CAGED UNTIL THEY ARE READY TO GO HOME. IS THIS HOW YOUR PUPS ARE RAISED?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Our pups are held, kissed, wiped and loved to distraction from day 1! We help mom birth them watch them 24/7 for the first week, They are with me and my husband, the kids, and the rest of our anilmals IN OUR HOME until they go home to you! They are socialized, spoiled rotten and very ready to enter almost any new situation with little or no anxiety. The first time they see a cage is when they are put into their travel kennel. We put in a blanket for comfort that has been rubbed on mom and their siblings, a toy, a bag of food. They have their health certificate and papers and are all ready to become a member of their new family.
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I JUST WANT TO DEAL WITH YOU BY EMAIL, WHY DO I HAVE TO CALL AND TALK TO YOU IN PERSON?
I "interview" all of our potential owners. It is more a casual conversation to answer any of your questions and for you to answer mine. I want my pups to go to the best families for all of the right reasons, if I feel that you are not the right family I will let you know that maybe you should find another source for your puppy.
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