Bulldogs and All About Them (A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic - Bulldog / French Bulldog)

Henry St. John Cooper, F. Barrett Fowler

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BULLDOGS AND ALL ABOUT THEM By F.Barrett Fowler A VINTAGE DOG BOOKS CLASSIC REPRINT "Bulldogs" was originally written by Henry St. John Cooper in 1914. This new edition was revised, updated, and almost completely re-written by F. Barrett Fowler in 1925. Any edition of this book on the Bulldog is now both expensive and hard to find. VINTAGE DOG BOOKS have republished the revised edition, using the original text and photographs, as part of their CLASSIC BREED BOOKS series. The author was a well known and respected breeder who had much success with his show Bulldogs. He was also a prolific contributor to the dog press of that era. The book's two hundred and forty eight pages are divided into fourteen comprehensive chapters Early History of the Bulldog Comparison of the Dogs of Twenty Years Back With Those of Today. Standard Description of the Bulldog. How to Breed Choosing the Best Sort of Brood Bitch. Whelp Protecting, Foster Mothers and Weaning. The Best Class of Kennel. The Bulldog Instinct, Temper and Intelligence. House Dog and Guard Dog. Study of Pedigrees and How to Choose a Stud Dog. Ailments and Best Food. Exhibiting. Rules of the Show Ring and Judging. Early Dog Shows. Buying and Selling. Leading Bulldog Societies. Sending Dogs to Shows and Abroad. Regulations. The English Bulldog. The French Bulldog. Etc. The thirty six page chapter on the French Bulldog will prove of particular interest to some breeders. The book is well illustrated with many text drawings and numerous vintage black and white photographs of famous Bulldogs. This is a fascinating read for any Bulldog enthusiast or historian of the breed, but also contains much information that is still useful and practical today. Many of the earliest dog breed books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. VINTAGE DOG BOOKS are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 16 octobre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528769891
• Langue: English

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Bulldogs and all about them
by
Henry St. John Cooper
Vintage Dog Books
Home Farm
44 Evesham Road
Cookhill, Alcester
Warwickshire
B49 51J
www.vintagedogbooks.com
Read Country Books 2005
This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing
ISBN No. 1-905124-99-6 (Paperback)
ISBN No. 1-905124-98-8 (Hardback)
Published by Vintage Dog Books 2005
Vintage Dog Books is an imprint of Read Books
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Vintage Dog Books
Home Farm
44 Evesham Road
Cookhill, Alcester
Warwickshire
B49 51J
www.vintagebooks.com
BULLDOGS
AND ALL ABOUT THEM
LUNETTE OF NORK
Frontispiece
BULLDOGS
And all About Them
By HENRY ST. JOHN COOPER
A NEW EDITION REVISED
AND LARGELY RE-WRITTEN
By F. BARRETT FOWLER
Hon. Sec. London Bulldog Society
JARROLDS Publishers LONDON
Limited, 10 11 Warwick Lane, E.C .
1925
MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
The Mayflower Press, Plymouth , William Brendon Son Ltd.
CONTENTS
I NTRODUCTION
I. E ARLY H ISTORY OF THE B ULLDOG -C OMPARISON OF THE D OGS OF T WENTY Y EARS BACK WITH THOSE OF T O-DAY
II. S TANDARD D ESCRIPTION OF THE B ULLDOG
III. H OW TO B REED -T HE B EST S ORT OF B ROOD B ITCH TO C HOOSE TO R EAR P UPPIES S UCCESSFULLY
IV. W HELP P ROTECTING -N EED FOR F OSTER -M OTHERS -W EANING
V. T HE B EST C LASS OF K ENNEL FOR B REEDING AND H OUSING
VI. T HE B ULLDOG I NSTINCT , T EMPER , I NTELLIGENCE -W HY THE B ULLDOG MAKES A G OOD H OUSEDOG AND G UARD
VII. S TUDY OF P EDIGREES AND HOW TO C HOOSE A S TUD D OG
VIII. A ILMENTS AND B EST C LASS OF F OOD
IX. H OW TO E XHIBIT -R ULES OF THE S HOW R ING AND J UDGING -E ARLY D OG S HOWS
X. B UYING AND S ELLING -N EED OF C AUTION
XI. L EADING B ULLDOG S OCIETIES
XII. S ENDING D OGS TO S HOWS AND A BROAD -G OVERNMENT R EGULATIONS, ETC .
T HE E NGLISH B ULLDOG
T HE F RENCH B ULLDOG
I NDICES
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Lunette of Nork
A Head Study of Vinemount Neptune
Advance Guard
Ambrose
Barkston Fan Fan
Barkston Dinah
Barnard s Green Charity
Ben White running his Bulldog Tumbler and Lady Sandwich s Bess at the head of Bill Gibbons Bull
Billy
Buccaneer
Bulldogs and Badger
Caulfield Monarch
Charts
Clapham John
Clevelock Big Ben
Clevelock Britisher
Cloth o Gold
Cloverley Babette
Cloverley Baroness
Cloverley Blunderbuss
Cloverley Boswell
Cognac of Nork
Columba Rose
Crib and Rosa
Diagrams
England s Flag
Failsworth White Orry
Flying Colours
Fripon
Hainault Duchess
Hefty Benedict
Hefty Master Grumpy
Hefty Sincerity
Hefty Son o Mike
His Nibs of Nork
Hollycroft Courage
Hollycroft Gauntlet
Kilburn Bombshell
Kilburn Duke
Kilburn Frolic
Kilburn Reminder
Kilburn Tampius
King Kob
King s Own (Phyllis)
Koy Kolleen
Lancast Winifred Lady
L Enfant Prodigue
L Entente Jacques
L Entente Monsieur le Duc
Litter of Home-bred Puppies, photographed at five weeks old, showing Pet of the Regiment in the centre
Lunette of Nork
Mark of Nork
Master and Mistress Milgrange
Milgrange Marquis
Milgrange Royalist
Miss Spitfire s Family
Mon Tem Susie
Mrs. John Bull
Ospringe Suzanne
Pet of the Regiment
Photochrom Bunty
Photochrom Grundy
Rose
Roseville Ban
Roseville Blazer
Rodney Bon Chance
Rotherwood September
Smasher
Sweet September
The Jabberwock
Tiger
Tumbler
Valiant Vanguard
Valiant Vashti
Valiant Winnie
V nus
Verlaine Boy
Vinemount Neptune
Wenden Citizen
White Marquis
Woodend Wrangler
INTRODUCTION
I HAVE been honoured by the Publishers in having been asked to re-write and bring up to date, as far as possible, the book Bulldogs and all About Them by Mr. Henry St. John Cooper, which to-day is out of print. I have had thirty-five years experience of dogs, and have tried to give the novice the information he requires, in order to save him from falling into the pit-holes that others have fallen into in the past. I have read carefully all the books that have been written on Bulldogs, from the first one written by the late Edgar Farman, and feel that I cannot do better than quote a few pages from the original edition of this work.
That the Bulldog is undoubtedly a product of the British Islands I, for one, firmly believe; and though, of course, it has not been and never will be conclusively proved, this is a generally accepted fact. Old-time writers-de Langley, Dr. Caius, and Dame Julianna Berners-do not in their works mention the Bulldog, which, of course, is no proof that the dog did not exist under some other name. It was later in its history that the dog became known as the Bulldog, due, of course, to the fact that it was used for the purpose of bull-baiting.
Exactly when this old English sport first started it is hardly possible to say, but in The Survey of Stamford the following reference is made to its probable origin:-
William Earl Warren, Lord of this town in the reign of King John (1209), standing upon the walls of his castle at Stamford, saw two bulls fighting for a cow in the castle meadows, till all the butchers dogs pursued one of the bulls, which was maddened by the noise and multitude, through the town. This sight so pleased the Earl that he gave the castle meadow where the bulls combat began, for a common to the butchers of the town after the first grass was mowed, on condition that they should find a mad bull on a day six weeks before Christmas for the continuance of that sport for ever.
This may or may not have been the origin of the sport of bull-baiting. At any rate, whatever its origin, it became, with the passing of years, increasingly popular. Naturally, being a demand, there had to be a supply of dogs suitable for this sport. These dogs were carefully bred by selection; beauty and symmetry of form were in no way desirable, the appearance of the dog counting for nothing-courage, power and ferocity for everything. There can be little doubt about it but that from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries bull-baiting was as much the national sport of this country as bull-fighting with men and horses is in Spain to-day. There is on record the will of one George Staverton, dated May 15, 1661, by which he gave the whole rent of his house situated at Staines, near London, to buy a bull annually for ever, which bull he gave to the people of the town of Wokingham, in Berks, to be there baited, then killed and equitably divided, the money collected from the spectators to be laid out in shoes and stockings to be distributed among the children of the poor.

T HE C ELEBRATED E NGRAVING OF CRIB AND ROSA, BY A BRAHAM C OOPER AND J OHN S COTT .
From the collection of Alfred Benjamin, Esq .
In the year 1778 the Duke of Devonshire, then Steward of Tutbury, in Staffordshire, succeeded in abolishing the annual bull-baiting which took place in that town, originating in 1374. It is said that the complication of cruelties that were exercised at this particular baiting were of such a sickening character as to be too horrible to record.
With the advance of civilization and humanity, very strong feeling was raised against this barbarous sport. Clergymen and gentlemen commenced an attack upon it, while some, from whom better might have been expected, took up the cudgels in its defence. Mr. Windham in the House of Commons in the first year of the nineteenth century, stated that in his opinion the sport kept alive the spirit of the English character. He was, however, one of few, and the many being opposed, the sport declined, and in due course became illegal, to the great benefit of everyone concerned, with the possible exception of the ruffians who bred the dogs and made money from the exhibitions.
The extraordinary courage possessed by these dogs is hardly believable. Bred from a long line of fighting ancestors, a dog was at length arrived at of such ferocity and courage as to seem almost insensible to pain. In the very early years of the nineteenth century it is said that the owner of a Bulldog living in the North of England was so confident in the courage of his animal that he made some trifling wager that he would set his dog at a bull, and that at four distinct intervals he would cut off one of the animal s feet, yet that would not deter the dog from still attacking the bull. It is said that the experiment was made, and that in spite of the terrible suffering the animal must have undergone, it still continued to attack on its bleeding stumps with the same eagerness as before.
When the baiting of bulls and bears was made illegal by Act of Parliament in the year 1835, as well also as dog-fighting, the last-named sport -for so I must call it for want of another name-continued to flourish more or less sub rosa for another half century. If anything, this dogfight ng business was even more degrading and horrible than the bull-baiting. I do not propose in this little book to go very deeply into the subject. For those who would perfect their knowledge of the later history of the Bulldog as a fighting dog, I would warmly recommend a perusal of