The Backwoods Bulldog Club is the most comprehensive canine registry available.  We have easy to fill out registration forms for your convenience.  We also provide a photo of your pet on the registration certificate.  The Club has been holding shows since 1995 and started registering dogs in 2002 with the information from those pedigrees.  Our paperwork is the most accurate available!

    Our goal is to protect the breeders lineage!  We check signatures and photos to ensure your information is not abused by your customers or others.

    Why use the Backwoods Bulldog Club (BBC) as your registry?

 Let’s say you have a litter of ten pups and two of them are pets not to be bred, but too young to spay or neuter. You want them gone before they are too old to get rid of, but don’t trust the buyers to abide by their contract.  We have a section for the breeder to check which states this dog is a pet and not to be bred.  This decision can only be reversed by the breeder’s discretion.  A signed letter by the breeder must be provided and a new certificate will be issued.

                                                              History in the Making

  In England, the style of Bull Baiting was for the Bulldog to always attack from the front.  The Bulldog was developed for this so-called type of sport from Butcher’s Dogs, Ban-dogs, Alaunts, the original White Pug, and Terriers.  Of these breeds it was most likely the Hunting and Fighting Terriers of England that lead to the trait of Bulldogs fighting the Bull from the front. 

  Eventually, the breeding of Terriers into the large Bull-Baiting dogs of England led to the name “Pit Bulldog”.   As well, the further outcrosses to Terriers led to the “Pit Bull Terriers”.

  In Spain, bull fighting has a long history.  The fighting dogs remained on the larger side and more true to the Alaunt of the Butcher: a Mastiff type dog for working cattle.  In England the Sheppard’s Mastiff would be it’s Equal!  Spanish settled lands adopted Bull fighting and Dog fighting from the Homeland; however, there is no evidence this was practiced to any degree in La Florida.  In Florida, these dogs were used to work rough cattle, swine, and as War Dogs!  The Spanish settled lands of La Florida and into what is now Middle Georgia which compiled of settlements bordering the Frontier of the New Land.  The concentration of the breed known locally as “White English Bulldog” were used more as border control;  first from the Natives, then 200 years later from the invading English of 1733.  The English succeeded over time to push these borders as far south as Kississimi Florida.  As late as 1883, no white man lived south of this border despite the fact that Spain had sold out in 1819.  The last holdouts were known as Spanish Crackers, who were grazing large herds of cattle for both the Spanish and English.  They converged for Market at the border town Kississimi and a statue of a White English Bulldog stands in front of the courthouse today. 

  The name White English Bulldog was given to the breed by the English, while the name for the “Pit Bulldog” remains the same and a separate breed.  The “Pit Bulldogs” were brought by the English Settlers for the same reason as the Spanish brought the Alaunt type dogs 200 years prior.  The dogs duties were broad and functioned as part of the culture offered by their owners: the duties consisted of farm hand, hunter, and protector from man or beast.  These breeds being an important part of our history are slowly fading into the soup pot as ethnic dog lines are crossed and just as our past history, they too are forgotten.  The popularity of the breed known as the American Bulldog seems to have done more harm than good in many cases.  The reality  is that an algamation of several bull breeds both old and new are now defining this breed.  Only a few seem to remember the real “Pit Bulldog” as used with livestock, and now that duty is best defined by several catch weight American Pit Bull Terriers.  JDJ’s Dick the Bruiser was used by Mr. Johnson to protect his cattle.  The son of Dick was Scott’s Dixieman and he naturally heeled and caught cattle as well as protected the family and farm.  These dogs never required formal protection training.

  Has anyone since bred a better American Pit Bulldog.                         by Ray Lane  Arkabutla Farm’s Kennels