The Original Bulldogge was created in England between 1600 and 1700. They were the early ancestores
to many of the Bully breeds that exist today including the modern English Bulldog and the American Bulldog.They were bredto
take part in blood sports such as bull baiting. This became quite popular in England throughout the mid 18th
Century. Bull baiting was the staking out of a bull and allowing several Bulldogges to attack it. It took a brave and
agile dog for this sport. This dog was of medium size: larger dogs were considered to be the result of mastiff crosses.
Around 1835, laws were passed in England that made bull baiting illegal and
the Olde English Bulldogges' main purpose of existence vanished. Within a decade the numbers of Bulldogges declined drastically
almost to extinction. Dog show fanciers eventually decided to reconstruct the breed, but wanted to tone down the
aggressive temperament to the original English Bulldoge. They crossed the remaining Bulldogge stock with the pug
and over the years they developed the modern English Bulldog. Unfortunately though, this modern dog is wrought
with all kinds of genetic health problems.
The modern Olde English English Bulldogge is a reconstruction
of the original Olde Bulldogge of the 17th and 18th century. Various genetic crosses have been used in carefully and thoughtfully
planned breeding programs to obtain this goal. The foundation of most of today's Olde English Bulldogges can be
traced to English Bulldog, American Bulldog, APBT and Mastiff.
These dogs were used very selectively in various combination to obtain
the desired physical and mental traits of the original Olde English Bulldogge. The result has been a good looking Bulldogge
of great athleticd ability that is much healthier and physically fit without most or all of the problems that plague today's
modern English Bulldogs. The goal of TrendSetter Bulldogges is to produce genetically healthier Bulldogges that are
free breathers, free breeders, and free whelpers. Although the breed is a modern day recreation of a "Legendary Dogge
of The Past", it is still the same pet, compainion, herder, protector, guard, and all-around dogge that it was hundreds
of years ago.
