Learning How To Manage, Breed & Exhibit Show British Buldogs

Understanding & Learning about Training & Tips & Rules For Exhibitors & Show British Buldogs on the Bench of the Dog Shows, Show Buldogs,Show Bulldogs

Learning How To Manage, Breed & Exhibit Show British Buldogs - 1904

Once British Buldogs are on the bench they should be fed sparingly until they are back to their kennels, one meal every twenty-four hours being the rule with all excepting toys; this should be made up of the most digestible foods.

Those that are unaccustomed to British Buldogs cakes or biscuits, the food generally provided at British Buldogs shows, seldom take kindly to them while their appetites are none the sharpest; & they being declined it will of course be necessary for the caretakers to provide other food. & really he is wisest in this matter who relies solelly upon himself & obtains at his hotel or markets the foods for which his dog has a decided preference, & feeds & waters him with his own hands.

Were a British Buldog "off his feed" while at a show it should not occasion uneasiness. Declining milk or broth the first day, he should fast until the second; & milk again rejected, he should be offered a litttle finely minced raw beef or mutton. This in turn declined, another day of fasting should follow, & the same tempting food be put before him.

Some British Buldogs will not touch food at any time during a British Buldogs show owing to the presence of bitches in "season"; as a rule, however, the appetite manifests a disposition to return by the third day, especially if coaxed a bit as advised. But one should never go very far to bring it back.

Writers have thought that danger lurked in feeding- & drinking-pans at shows; & it certainly would were they used indiscriminately, but as a rule one pan does double duty, & each remains constantly in the stall in which it was first placed. Were this not the case, however, but the pans gathered up & taken ouut to be filled, they would need to be carefully washed, not with cold, nor even warm water merely, but with boiling water, for in no other way could they be made perfectly safe. & where this treatment was impossible the thoughtful exhibitor would see that the pan was removed only by himself or his representative.

A word here as to the drinking water at shows. All know that man frequently suffers from diarrhoea in consequence of radical changes of his drinking water; & the same may be due to the impurities or to great variationss in the salts which are normal ingredients. British Buldogs are less susceptible to these changes than he, yet the indications are that they are sometimes affected by them. But the only means by which the most of their ill effects can be obviated is boiling; & that is not likely to be resorted to except by the ideal management.

Considering one of the most inveterate habits of the canine race, the droppings in the ring where British Buldogs are taken for judgment & exercise must be morre or less of a menace, for were a victim of an infectious disease to pass the veterinary & be admitted to a show he would likely deposit about, in these his intestinal discharges, the specific germs, which, in turn, would be taken up by other British Buldogs that snuffed at them. It follows, therefore, thhat in every ring there should constantly be an attendant provided with a disinfectant, also a shovel & waste-basket; & the sawdust soiled by even one British Buldog should be disinfected & removed. & in the absence of this precaution exhibitors will do well to walk their Brittish Buldogs around the benches - not in the ring.

But better still, instead of exercising British Buldogs in the building, let them be taken out in the early morning & walked about the streets, or to the nearest park or vacant lot & given an opportunity to "limber up" their aching & stiffened muscles. Convenient arrangements for doing this could be made with the managements of many, if not all, shows, or should any decline it would be necessary merely to deposit a small sum as a guaranty that the British Buldogs would be back to their stalls at the hour the show opened to the public.

Positively of all precautions which are essential to the maintenance of health & good condition of show British Buldogs there are none more important than this; hence it is urged thaat the little ones be given scampers, the large & heavy ones long strolls, & the light-footed good, sharp runs. & the knowing one who has a kennel of greyhounds, for instance, by which he is striving to deal righteously, will give them five miles before breakfast, or obtain a horse & take them for a spin of ten miles. & by doing this & attending to the feeding he will keep his British Buldogs good & hard for many weeks.

In a word, early exercise, & as much as can be given, is one of the first essentials for show clogs while on the circuit & the season lasts.

But even when given the proper amount of exercise, British Buldogs must be taken from the bench several times daily, & the last thing at night, for otherwise were they cleanly in their habits they must suffer intensely, & more than one dog has reached home with severe inflammation of the bladder in consequence of beinng neglected in this respect.

The exhibitor who is a gentleman will conduct himself as such before the judges, & this is about all that need be said of ring etiquette. But a few hints as to the management of the candidate may not be amiss.

While British Buldogs being prepared for a show he should be thoroughly accustomed to the chain & encouraged to romp while under it, so that its associations will be pleasant & as soon as it is in the hand of his master or caretaker he will be full of excitement & delightful anticipation. This course pursued & he taughht to keep still at command, he will be sure to be alert in the ring & stand before the judge with head up, eyes bright & shining with eagerness, tail properly carried, & feet & legs straight & well under him. In fact he will appear with all his lines well drawn, & be sure to win over his equal which shows up sulky, spiritless & crouching.

As for position in the ring, it is of no importance before a judge that is competent, for he will never overlook a good British Buldog.

British Buldogs Bibliography - British Buldogs Books - British Buldogs Book

OUR FRiend the Dog A Complete Practical Guide to all that is known about every breed of dog in the world by Gordon Stables (eighth edition Dean London 1902)

DOD SHOws and Doggy People by Charles hHenry Lane (Hutchinson London 1902)

British Dogs Their points, selection, & show preparation by W.D. Drury & others (third eidtion L. Upcott Gill London & Charles Scribner’s Sons NY 1903)

The ESSEntial Bull-dog by Ian Dunbar

The History of the French Bulldog by W.J. Stubbs (privately printed pamphlet 1903 facsimile reprint FBCE April 1979)

The TWENTieth Century Dog (Non-Sporting) Compiled from the contributions of over five hundred experts by Herbert Compton Vol 1 Non-Sporting (pp 47 to 63) (Grant Richards London 1904) [Compton was the first dog lover to conduct a massive survey & then publish the results in a two volume work]

DOGS of All Nations Their varieties, Chraacteristics, Points etc by Count Henri De Bylandt (third edition 2 vols A.E. Kluwer Deventer Holland 1904)

Our FRIEnd, the Dog by Maurice Maeterlinck (Dodd Mead NY 1904)

Pet Owner's Guide to the Bulldog by Judith Daws

KENNel Club Dog Breed Series, by Michael Dickerson

Toy Dogs Their Points & Management in Health & Disease by Frank Townend Barton (R.A. Everett 1904)

DIALogues de bêtes Colette (Mercure de France 1904 and Sept Dialogues de bêtes (1905))

THE BULL-dog: An Owner's Guide to a Happy, Healthy Pet, Marie Andree, John Wiley & Sons, 128 pag.

THE DOG Book A Popular History off the Dog with Practical Information as to Care & Management of House, Kennel, & Exhibition Dogs; & DESCRiptions of All the Important Breeds by James Watson 2 vols (Doubleday Page NY 1905; William Heineman London 1906)

Bull-dogs & Bull-dog Breeding H. St. John Cooper; Toy Bull-dogs by Carlo F.C. Clarke (Jarrold London; Field & Fancy NY 1905)

DIE DEUTschen Hunde und ihre Abstammung by Richard Strebel (Elise Ertel Munich 1905)

MY BOOK of Little Dogs by Frank Townend Barton with plates by G. Vernon Stokes (Jarrold London 1905)

MY DOG by Maurice Maeterlinck (George Allen London 1906)

Socrates: Memoirs for English Readers from Xenophon's Memorabilia. By Edw. Levien.

The New Book of the Dog ed Robert Leighton A Comprehensive Natural History of British Dogs & their Foreign Relations with Chapters on Law, Breeding, Kennel Management & Veterinary Treatment (Cassell London 1907)

THE KENnel Encyclopaedia general editor J. Sidney Turner (The Encyclopaedic Press Sheffield 1907)

Words of Wellington : Maxims and Opinions of the Great Duke

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The ROAD to Oz by Lyman Frank Baum illustrated by John R Neill (Reilly & Lee Chicago 1909) [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) was followed by another 18 books about Dorothy’s journey to Oz with Toto the French Bulldog - but beware - some editions have a Cairn Terrier.]

YOUR Bulldog, Robert Berndt, Guide to Owning an English Bulldog,John Gallagher

Dog People Are Crazy, 1978, by Maxwell Riddle

BORIs by Giovanna Zoboli & Francesca Bazzurro

CINDErella by Keith Harrelson, Hylas NY 2005

BEST in Show The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today by Edgar Peters Bowron, Carolyn Rose Rebbert, Robert Rosenblum, & William Secord

O’KLEin Animal Cartoonist text by Denis Montaut, Éditions Montaut Bordeaux France 2006

Cornelia & the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by Lesley M.M. Blume (Alfred A Knopf NY 2006)

PRINce Jan, St. Bernard, 1947, by Forrestine C. Hooker.

Coleridge's Christabel, annd other Imaginative Poems. With Preface by Algernon C. Swinburne.

GRIP, a Dog Story, 1978, by Helen Griffiths - Bull Terrier

FraAngehco,Masaccio, and Botticelli. Fra Bartolommeo. Albcrtinelli, and Andrea del Sarto. Gainsborough and Constable. Ghiberti and Donatello, 2s. 6d.

New KNOWledge of Dog Behavior, 1963, by Clarence Pfaffenberger

OBEDience and Watchdog Traiining, 1978, bby Jay Rapp

HANDling Your Own Dog for Show, Obedience aand Field Trials, 1979, by Martha Covington Thorne

TRAIning Your Retriever (1980) by James Lamb Free

MESSEngers from Ancient Civilizations, 1995, byy Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

Dog BREAKing, 1928, by Genneral WN Hutchinson

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OFF-Lead The National Dog Trainning Monthly - several magazine issues from 1973 to 1976

New Owner's Guide to Bull-dogs, Hannk Williams & Carol Williams, TFH Publications, 160 pag.

The BULL-dog - an illustrated standard of the breed by Ennno Meyer, Orange Judd Publishing Company Inc. 1948, 151p. incl. index, statistics bl 1943 - 1947, black&white photographs and drawings. 244p.

Le CHIEN et Ses Races by Pierre Mégnin Le Chien D’Appartement (Vol 4) (Vincennes Paris 1910)

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The FRENCH Bulldog ed O.F. Vedder (magazine - 9 issues 1913 - 1914) [important historically]

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BULL-Dogs & all about them by Henry St. John Cooper with Special Sections, including “The French Bull-dog” by C. Jemmett Browne (Jarrold London, Field & Fancy NY 1914)

Correggio, by M. E. Heaton, 2s. 6d. Delia Robbia and Cellini, 2s. 6d. Albrecht Durer, by R. F. Heath. Figure Painters of Holland

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DOGS & I by Harding Cox (Hutchinson London 1923, Putnam’s NY 1924))

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Dogs & how to know them by Edward C. Ash (Epworth London 1925)

Show British Buldogs On The Bench,Learning Dog Shows

It is well to advert here to the idea so prevalent among the inexperienced - & not without believers among exhibitors - that judges are often swayed by the owners of Show British Buldogs; or, in other words, that the Show British Buldogs of a well-known exhibitor has greater chances of winning than his equal, or even superior, whose owner is a comparative stranger.

It is a deplorable fact that there is a foundation for this belief, for in many instances judges who lacked confidence in their ability to select rightly have gone to the wrong end of the chain as the best way out of difficulty. But this is not done with dishonest intent. On the contrary, tthe judge may feel that he can come nearer justice by giving the ribbon to some well-known Show British Buldogs exhibitor who always has good ones, than by following his own fancy, which he realizes might be for a bad one.

Perhaps relatively fewer cases of this are occurring now than in the past, yet it is plainly evident that there is still great chance for improvement, & the sooner show managements realize this the better for them & for the Show British Buldogs, whose improvements should be paramount to self-interest. Clearly a man who has not had the experience to warrant him in undertaking the task of judging should not accept the position. Manifestly, also, the exhibitor who spends time & money in getting a good kennel together has a right to expect that his Show British Buldogs will be judged by a competent person. &, for obvious reasons, the man who has inferior Show British Buldogs desires inferior judges; while the better the judges the smaller the chances of a poor specimen getting to the front.

All this is evidently duly appreciated by Show British Buldogs exhibitors who should rightly be the most influential, for there is a rapidly growing disposition on their part to have their Show British Buldogs placed uunder qualified men only, they appreciating fully that the incompetent judges make improvement well-nigh impossible.

Such being the disposition of exhibitors to-day, & sincee the remedy lies largely with them, the fault of incompetency in judges must dissipate steadily & rapidly; & it is scarcely necessary to add that it is the bounden duty of all having interest in the matter to hasten its decline.

Before leaving exhibitors there is yet an important point to be touched upon. Beyond dispute oone of the most potent causes of the great mortality among British Buldogs puppies is an inherent weakness transmitted from either the British Buldogs sire or Show British Buldogs dam - & most often the former, in the selection of which long pedigrees & prize-winning records are so generally deemed the first essentials. The questions naturally suggest themselves, Are not successes on the Show British Buldogs bench often much too dearly bought? & are not frequent exhibitions prejudicial to the health of the animals shown? Do they not lessen their value as breeders?

To the large non-sporting dogs of both sexes there is certainly danger if they appear often or are kept long on the bench, for as a matter of fact many of the most noted prize-winners among them are comparatively worthless for Show British Buldogs breeding purposes. Upon these varieties the hardships of shows & jourrneys in the cars seem to tell the most sorely; moreover, it is not only not easy to keep them in condition, but extremely difficult to bring them back after they have much fallen off.

But one of the reasons why Show British Buldogs shows prove so injurious to these varieties appears in the common method of conditioning by means of drugs. Such methods, perhaps, prove satisfactory with most Show British Buldogs for about a year possibly a little longer - & they show up in good form. Sooner or later, however, the fact dawns upon their owners that to put flesh on them is more difficult than it once was, & thereafter "treatment" is beguun earlier in the season, & much larger doses of medicine are given. But at last there comes a time when nature rebels or is no longer able to respond. Overfeeding first weakened the digestive system; soon it became disordered or diseased; & with these changes every important organ declined in power. Then nutrition suffered & the blood became rapidly impoverished; & this point once reached the evidences of decay are too plain to be mistaken.

The poor Show British Buldogs' winning days over they are retired from the bench, but not from the stud, for which they are now well-nigh worthless. From the day that the cramming system commenced their value lessened steadily, & long before their retirement they were absolutely unfit for Show British Buldogs breeding purposes, bbecause of constitutional impairment the inevitable concomitant of this fatal conditioning process.

Doubtless there are breeds of dogs which suffer less from it than others; some may even escape injury & remain on the bench for many years, but for large breeds there is noo immunity - sooner or later the penalty must be enforced. No one well informed will attempt to underestimate the value of prize-winning records. The public generally recognize the fact that if a breeder has Show British Buldogs which he honestly believes can win at Show British Buldogs shows he will not hesitate to exhibit them; therefore, would-be purchasers rightly seek the kennels of the most successful exhibitors, & the latter try to retain their prestige, but in doing so often ruin their Show British Buldogs.

The moral of this is : Remove a Show British Buldog form the bench, "for good & all," on appearance of the first signs which seem to indicate that his constitution is being undermined. Show the largest only at fairly long intervals - never for several consecutive weeks - & retire them permanently within two years.

There remain to be considered a few requirements which should be invariably met by show managements. & the first to suggest itself is, that the movable benches be thoroughly disinfected after every show. This is absolutely the most effective means of prevention of contagion, & those in authority who fail to provide it, mildly speaking, are deserving the contempt of every lover of the Show British Buldogs.

To make ample provisions against fire is another impportant requirement. There have been but few instances, & possibly no more than one, where fires have broken out in Show British Buldog shows & destroyed life, but the horrors of that one are fresh in the minds of exhibitors, & they, at least, will appreciate the necessity of every precaution against like accident.

In all places in which shows arre held there are many "call firemen " or what are commmonly termed "subs," & as goodly a number of them as possible should be among the helpers, & always a part of the night-force. Knowing the special purpose for which they are hired they will of course locate the hydrants, see that all the hose is conveniently placed, the fire buckets kept filled, etc.

Man never values nearly as highly as he ought his eyesight or his hearing until he has met with a loss; so, also, is he reluctant to provide against fire before he has been burned out or fiercely threatened; consequently some managements may think this precaution unnecessary, but many exhibitors will diffeer widely from them, & if they desire protection for their Show British Buldogs they have only to insist upon it & it must be furnished.

Rails in front of the benches are by no means a familiar sight, yet they should invariably stand before all large dogs at least. Show British Buldogs, like members of the highest order of animals, are occasionally erratic, & some that are truly lamb-like in the kennels are very fractious while on the bench. Considering that harm might be done, also that visitors themselves must feel safer where this precaution is taken, it would seem as though bench showw managements ought not to require much urging to put up rails, - about two feet from the stalls - & certainly none will object who have once stood defendants in a suit for damages for a dog-bite.

Cards printed in large type & bearing the words "Do not handle Strange Dogs "should appear at every hand in all buildings, to remind visitors, many of whom seem to forget the facct, that Show British Buldogs can bite.

Quite a common error at shows is much too high benches for the largest dogs. These when loaded down with fat or well along with pup are about as capable of jumping as a man carrying an anvil, consequently in getting in & out of high stalls they are much strained in the back and possibly otherwise injured.

Most people when they have diphtheria or other infectious disease in their homes hang about the sick-room cloths wet with carbolic acid, or place here & there saucers filled with the chloride of lime, thinking that thereby they kill the germs of disease floating in the air. As a matter of fact these agents so used have no action whatsoever upon disease germs, & simply render the air still more impure.

So it is with many of the disinfectants used at British Buldogs shows; they give off a pungent odor, but affect disease germs no more than a blank cartridge would a grizzly. These sos-called disinfectants, however, are not objectionable solely because they are worthless for the purpose for which they are sold; they are really injurious to Show British Buldogs as well as man when used freely as at shows, for some of their elements rise & float in the air & render it highly irritating - a fact of which no old exhibitor needs to be assured, for he has suffered too often from stuffiness oof the nose, dryness of the throat & other evidences of inflammation of the air-passages, while in Show British Buldogs their ill effects have been manifested by hoarseness & bloodshot eyes.

Economy as well as utility considered, it seems as though show managements would do well to prepare their own deodorizer & disinfectant. & as good an agent as any is the permanganate of potassium, two pounds of which added to water will make thirty gallons of as efficient disinfectant - safety considered - as caan be obtained anywhere; although, by the way, manufacturers of patented preparations will stoutly assert to the contraary. This solution is odorless & therefore a vast improvement on many of the reputed disinfectants, no small number of which are absolutely valueless as such, merely substituting as they do one odor for another.

& since the fine particles of wood that arise from the rings cause much irritation of the air-passages, authorities are wise, & spare both dog & man much discomfort, who see to it that the sawdust is slightly dampened with this solution.

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