Full Grown Miniature English Bulldog Information
There are much misleading information about the full grown miniature English bulldog breed. There seems to be a lot of confusion about the miniature English bulldog and I’m going to clear some of those misunderstandings up.
Hybrid mixes and small full-sized bulldogs are NOT the same thing as the miniature bulldog breed! The hybrid mixes do not have the same personalities as the original miniature English bulldogs that were established in the 1980s.
The firsts miniature bulldog offered on the world wide web (www) was in the Spring of 1999 by Protective Companions, pool website representing all of the purebred breeders. English Bulldog Miniature .com was and is the site for the purebred breeders. The Breed description includes two classifications of Classic and Athletic with the athletic looking more like the bulldog of the early 1900 era and the classic more like the current English bulldog. How ever modern show bulldog looks are limited for improved health reasons. The behavior description is a loving, loyal, sweet, healthy, high IQ highly trainable want to please you, take every where protective companion.The purebred breeder-owner association did genetic health tracking which lead to the new genetic tracking registry in the International Kennel Club, IKC, Inc. that registers the Purebred Miniature and is open to AKC breeds and new rare breeds being developed to AKC standards wanting genetic tracking. IKC registry may be claimed after a probation period with successful health tracking.
Miniature-Full-size Controversy
The Bulldog Club of America put on line a page that said there was no such thing as a miniature bulldog creating a controversy. The Miniature Bulldog Association site www.miniaturebulldogs.org provides information on the Purebred Miniature with owner pictures and information about hybrid or mixes and full-size health issues.
MBCOA, Miniature Bulldog Club of America , a new site formed by Florida breeders is composed of breeders of the small full-size, both of US and Australian bloodline breeders and the French English Pug combination breeders. This club, of these different breeds, seek to have the miniature bulldog become one AKC breed. The site offers background on toy and small bulldogs in England and France. It claims a history “Since 1980” which is not evident based on internet research, but does coincides with the history of the US Purebred Miniature Bulldog development which implies this group was a functioning group at the time of US development of the US Purebred Miniature Bulldog. In fact this group is an association of breeders of several different small bulldog breeds and bloodlines foreign and domestic that was formed in 2004 and 2005 to compete with the US Purebred English Bulldog Miniature for which there have been complaints on some MBCOA breeders that the pups have grown up to be full-size bulldogs with full-size bulldog behaviors that include lovingly bumping over small children.*
Purebred Miniature Bulldog behavior is different from the full-size regular bulldog. Its description is very sweet and loving but does include stubborn, independent and slow in learning and training because of its independent persevering nature. And the French bulldog is also similar. Individual owners report exceptions with faster cooperative behavior.
FRENCH ENGLISH PUG COMBINATION MINIATURE
The next Miniature bulldog offering came in late 2001 from three breeders in Minnesota, one offering a French English combination, and the other two offered an English Pug mix. This evolved into the French English Pug combination because of the size and shape of the French. These were less expensive and sold as “miniature bulldogs”. The breed description suggested similarity to the full-size, sweet loving and comical. From these other breeders showed up in New York and Florida.
AUSTRAILAN MINIATURE BULLDOG
In around 2003 Australians begin developing there own hybrid mixes a few of which were imported to the U.S. And allegedly some Australian breeders reduced the size of the regular English and also imported some of these to the U.S. including a Florida family.
SMALL REGULAR MINIATURE ENGLISH BULLDOG
And in 2004 Florida family breeders offered a miniature bulldog from a regular Australian small bulldog allegedly 20 to 32 pounds in an claimed these were the original miniature bulldogs. This was followed by a Texas breeder offering small regular bulldogs who started an Arkansas breeder in small regular bulldogs.
CONSUMER COMPLAINTS ON SIZE AND BEHAVIOR
*Regular bulldog mini complaints have emerged that some of these were growing to regular bulldog size bumping over small children in loving play. Allegedly legal action is beginning taken is some of these complaints based on size and behavior fraud. The misunderstanding seems to emerge from these regular bulldog bloodlines being advertised under the purebred miniature description as above and buyers are assuming they are getting a purebred English Bulldog Miniature when they order these allegedly small regular bulldogs claimed to be the original miniature bulldogs. In defense of such breeders dogs, it is difficult to change a breed in a short time that is several hundred years old with a trend to breed larger specimens, with out having through backs, in this case size. There was no claim in personality change other than to place ads under the purebred description with a breeder page linked to the purebred breeder description.
A miniature bulldog of the type and description you want is well worth the planning. Read and talk to breeders long enough to know what you are being offered in behavior, personality, and look for an appropriate price. If you feel you are being spun because you don’t yet know enough, do more research and verify. Don’t let puppy love and the desire for a quick fast good deal push you into a fast credit card decision. Don’t just buy a puppy; Adopt your puppy for Life so you be as happy with miniature bulldog all of the way as in first week puppy love!