St. Margaret's Farm - Mollett Victorian Bulldogs
The ancient sporting games of bull baiting was abolished in 1835.





Mollett Victorian Bulldogs
We are a small kennel of Mollett Victorian Bulldog enthusiasts based near Edinburgh, Scotland. We are working under the guidance of Tony Mollett to produce a strong, healthy and athletic Bulldog similar to the dogs of the late Victorian period. We are privileged to be working with blood lines ranging back 25 years.

However, between the Bulldog of to-day and his ancestor of a hundred years ago, there is, it must be confessed, a considerable difference in appearance. The old type of Bulldog was that of an extremely powerful and active animal, far more active than it would be possible for the present day low-to-ground specimen to be.
The Bulldog of a hundred years ago was a sporting dog pure and simple; appearance counted for little, and all that was asked of him was that he should be active, determined, courage’s, and powerful. Nowadays the Bulldog is not a sporting dog, for the simple reason that his field of sport no longer exists, bull-baiting having been suppressed by Act of Parliament in the early part of the nineteenth century.

No longer required for the rough-and-tumble life of the pit or bull-ring, he has been allowed to live at his ease for generation after generation, possibly with no harder task to perform than to take a moderate walk at his masters heels; and so gradually his abnormal activity departed, his savage instincts were curbed, and the modern Bulldog was evolved.

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