Welcome to RHBullbreeds, We would like to say first and foremost that we have never worked with Tony Mollett or the Mollett family. We are not in breeding programes with him nor have we ever met. We do own one of his dogs (Stella), which he bred and the rest of our dogs all come from Ken Molletts Original stock.
At RHbullbreeds we like to keep our breedings nice and strict with only Victorian Bulldog to Victorian Bulldog and only the best dogs and girls are picked. We have very few litters per year and are Very Respected Breeders with an untarneshed reputation.
Messers Reid and Hawthorn.
We hope you enjoy this site and what we stand for,
we want to be able to supply you with original, healthy and people friendly dogs. We are a family run kennel & currently have 6 Victorian bulldogs at the moment. 4 bitches & 2 stud dogs.
We do not tollirate dog fighting or animal cruelty. Remember a dog is for life, a best friend and companion, sometimes even part of the family, that gets treated better than the kids.
We are 1 of very few authentic Victorian Bulldog breeders north of the border, breeding these rare dogs and are privileged to be working with blood lines ranging back 25 years.
Our goal is to produce a strong, healthy and athletic Bulldog similar to the dogs of the late Victorian period.
Ken Mollett was saddened to see so many unhealthy Bulldogs and wanted to bring back the original healthier Bulldog of the Victorian era. Working to old photos, statues, written descriptions and engravings. He set out to remake the dog pictured in Victorian times, using only Bull breeds registered with the kennel club of Great Britain He called this dog the Victorian Bulldog.
Indeed in the mid 1980's the late Ken Mollett started a breeding program in the UK with the aim of creating a healthier Bulldog similar to the dog of the late Victorian period, only the healthiest dogs and those of sound temperament were used in the breeding programme.
The Victorian Bulldog as an active, playful and very loyal dog. They are ideal for apartment life as they are inactive indoors, but would benefit from a small yard.
Unfortunately we are now witnessing breeders of Bulldogs strains not related to the Mollett linage trying to have a free ride on the increasing popularity of the Victorian Bulldog, by using the name Victorian Bulldog when referring to there dogs. My advice would be to research on the breed/breeders, to save the disappointment of purchasing inferior dogs.
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. |
