History of the Bulldog
Name of the Race: The word Bulldog, of English bull (bull) and dog (dog), appeared to principles XVII, to designate to those dogs that destined themselves to the brutal spectacle of fights against bear, bulls, etc.
Country of Origin: The Bulldog is a canine race of unquestionable English origin, for that reason before also English Bulldog denominated itself .
Historical review: The history of the Bulldog includes/understands two stages different divided clearly by the prohibition from the animal fights .
Old Bulldog of fight: Originally, before the prohibition, the raising of the Bulldog was developed in England of fight. This one was an animal lacking in physical definite forms, which only was differing for his terrible ferocity induced by the man to destine it to brutal combats with beasts and beasts, especially bears and bulls, which were using as entertainment for the public in seats and amphitheatres.
Like it was a produced animal to fight, his ferocity in the harassment and their tenacity in the combat was the criteria that were used to determine the quality of such dogs.
In 1835 the British parliament prohibited those Barbarian spectacles, fact that produced the declination of the ferocious Bulldog of fight.
Modern Bulldog of exhibition: after the prohibition, they appeared in the middle of century XIX the canine exhibitions. The Bulldog, legally prevented to fight, soon began to be exhibited simultaneously that was put under crossings with calm dogs to eliminate their ferocity.
But as the Bulldog lacked a defined physical form took place a great disorder in the raising of the race, when existing disparity of criteria on which they were his typical forms. In order to solve the conflict, the English breeders founded on 1875 the club of the Bulldog, deciding in 1876 to uniform the physical characteristics of the Bulldog by means of the approval of a standard. By the end of the last century the race began to spread by the world, being based on the U.S.A. the Bulldog Club of America. Since then the race has not experienced many changes except for the tendency every smaller day towards more robust, heavy and vry short lines animals.
At the moment, the Bulldog of exhibition is a docile animal (for to facilitate its raising and exhibition) submissive rigorous exigencies of form. Its quality depends in that measured corporally materializes the prescriptions anticipated in the standard.
One is not due to fall in the frequent error to confuse the present Bulldog, Pacific, heavy, and subject to sophisticated rules of aesthetic corporal with his predecessor the old Bulldog; agile, ferocious and atypical. The Bulldog of long ago lacked a defined form and it was characterized by his excessive ferocity, the present Bulldog lacks her and it is distinguished by his typical forms and properly standardized.
