Aussie Bulldog History

When searching the world wide web you will find several sites on the Aussie/Australian Bulldog.
The UABA web site holds the only entire photographic documentation of the beginnings of this breed /Jag Lines (Noel & Tina Green) correctly covering where ,why and how it first started and become known as today's bulldog of Australia. Below you will find photographs that document the full origins of the first foundation dogs used in the Jag / Greens breeding program right up to the generations of today that are mainly aussie to aussie matings. Starting from the first male (Banjo , staffy bully boxer) bred by greens in 1988 for the purpose of producing an attractive looking dog, solid build ,strong head type and unique colouring (white/brindle pied).A few pups from this first line of dogs were used in remote areas of QLD , NSW & NT for helping in the control and eradication of scrub bulls and feral pigs .These dogs had function , athleticism , tolerance ,controllability, intelligence, and productivity making them very capable for the job that was set out for them.
The first introduction of British bulldog blood in 1993 , was a straight cross bulldog / boxer called "Agro", bred back to our staffy boxer bullmastiff female "sally " born 1991, she was a daughter by "banjo", out of "brindle" a boxer bullmastiff female ,this generation onwards was entirely bred as family companions, later producing the litter that Jag Dishlex came from. Our main focus was on function , health temperament and type, laying a solid foundation for the future breeding of Jag line dogs .The introduction of 100% British Bulldog to the Jag /Green foundation line was "Jake" , also owned by A.Tropea ,this brought in heavier bone , squarer head types and increased the thickness of bodies, producing puppies that immediately resembled bulldogs of yesteryear .

The Greens intentions were to produce a whole line of dogs of bulldog type , larger in appearance to the British ,and smaller than the Bullmastiff but keeping both breeds quality traits , loyalty, personality and impressive build. These two breeds were chosen for the related similarities .The "Regency Bulldog" is documented as being the type of Bulldog bred to English Mastiffs to produce today's Bullmastiffs , and is partly responsible for the Greens idea of producing a modern breed that resembled these dogs.
The photo on the right is a Old -type Bulldog , bred by Mr C Derwent and this was the type of dog used in the bullmastiff foundations .Photo is from the Mastiff and Bullmastiff handbook written by Douglas B .Oliff

The Aussie/Australian Bulldog name came about simply by referring to a bulldog breed and the country in which it was established .
For eg: French Bulldogs ,British Bulldogs, American Bulldogs ,Brazilian Bulldogs ,Aussie / Australian Bulldog..

The only other modern bulldog that is similar in its choice of foundation breeds is the Victorian Bulldog that was foundered by the late Ken Mollett in England and continued on by his wife and the Unincorporated Victorian Bulldog Society as well as a large number of committed breeders with the Victorian Bulldog Association (VBA) .Both breeding programs began with the same amount of determination to create a more functional , versatile bulldog focusing very strongly on family dogs suitable for a home environment and avoiding individuals that have too much drive in the direction of catch dogs.
Photo on right taken of the late Ken Mollett with his two Victorian Bulldogs Boatswain and Nellie. Photo taken by Tim Rose from the editorial written by Claire Horton-Bussey in Dogs Today October 1997.

The original Jag / Greens lines contain Staffy, Boxer, Bullmastiff , Bulldog , eventually moving towards breeding heavily on Bullmastiff and British bulldog bloodlines which lay behind all related dogs today .
The Nobes line dogs were structured differently , which you can view on the Australian bulldog society web site for further information. We do not agree with the choice of breeds used in some lines of Nobes dogs , however we do support her lines based on Boxer , Bulldog and Bullmastiff Bulldog ancestry .

Greens breeding kicked off from a dog Angelo Tropea owned in Caboolture QLD , an impressively built dog called "Agro"who was a British Bulldog Boxer straight cross. Agro was bred in Caloundra , and was a full brother to Everus Rocky Road owned by Gavin Everus , who was later used back to Jag Paint in 1998 which a female from this litter called Jag Ginger Megs started the Yanco kennel owned by Julie Wickham. Everus rocky road was a half brother to Wingara Chippolata .They all had the same British Bulldog mother , but Chip was sired by a totally different male Boxer .Chippolata was purchased from Caloundra by P.Nobes .The female Nobes purchased become known as chippy , the second foundation female of the Nobes line .
The Greens used "Agro" over Jag Sallanne (Sally) in 1991 who was a daughter of Banjo & Brindle , this litter produced a well known productive female called Jag Dishlex. ( Dish) who built the platform for the future breeding plans that Greens had in mind. "Dish"was mated to a full British called Maxlyn Hercules Wrath , producing "Maggie" Then Miss margatitta went back to Teddy Bear long time comming to produce Paint and 8 other siblings , four of which were exported to Guam as the first Aussie Bulldogs to leave the country .This was the beginning of continual export of these dogs to a large number of countries , including United States ,Tahiti , Japan , China , Singapore , Hawaii , just to name a few .

The first introduction of pure Bullmastiff came from a female called Charlotte in 1991, a lovely large solid fawn crank tailed female who was initially owned by the Greens and sold to Angelo Tropea .Angelo then put his British Bulldog Jake to her, producing 9 pups,8 females and 1 male. These hybrid's were then used back into the program. Greens had a male from this called Moby who was later sold to Pip Nobes .Two females called Tropeas dressed in red & Tropeas Nikki were important females used for the next generation of breeding producing some good litters of which a couple of important dogs came about . Tropeas Dressed in red was put to another British Bulldog that Angelo owned called Jacko also known as Mityan Sir Anglo .This litter produced a male called Cashes Donk ,later changed to Donkey Tonk Eeore on Nobes registrar ."Donk " was bred by Dianne Cash and purchased by Haden Lowe from Brisbane who sold Donk to the Greens in 1999 , he was later sold to Pip Nobes .Mityan Sir Anglo was also used by Angelo Tropea in 1999 to a pied coloured full bred Staffy female called "Roma" , producing a large litter of puppies , some having natural screw tails .One of her daughters became known as Pukallis Dizzy also known as Bullstaff Dizzy bred by Jason & Trish Pukallis in Morayfield QLD .She was then mated to Jag Master Duncan who is from Jag Paint and Perciles Hero , producing Pukallis Fanny owned by Graeme and Mellisa Mc Allister of Mc Gramel Kennels.Fanny was mated to Bungalow Bronson Of Jag to produce Mc Gramel Prince Archer owned by Vaughn Cameron and 2 sisters Darma and Bindi owned by Peter & Tricia Pownceby Warra Kennels.

The other main introduction of Bullmastiff was from Rob Kestel in WA, a male called " Tiger Boy " who was red brindle , his breeding was Bullmastiff / Bulldog straight cross . This male was used by Greens on two occasions and by Rob personally for the start of his Kestels breeding program in September 1998 . Tiger boy was put to Jag Dishlex to produce Jag Tim Tam , 2 females from this litter started G'Day Aussie Bulldog kennels owned by John Franks .Jag Tim Tam who was later bred to Devass Gregory back in1999 continuing a line of healthy productive females starting Layleys Kennels with Jag Pepper and Jag Coco as well as producing Jag Cindy for the greens. Tiger was also used over Jag Miss Margarita to produce Holly who was put to Allipundi Lord Charles (Max) to produce dogs such as Jag Bundy for Malleebull owned by Fleur Marks, Jag Bronson and so on. Holly also had two previous litters ,11 puppies in the first litter and 8 in the second litter both sired by Cash's Donk. This tied in two lines of Bullmastiff ancestry. Massive amounts of breeding have been done from these original matings until today , January 2006, which involves hundreds of pups and dozens of new breeders .

The last introduction of Bullmastiff was in January 2005 when Bungalow Bronson was used over a big silver brindle bullmastiff female known as "Lillian" without papers and owned by Stockton Park Kennels .Lillian had 16 puppies natural whelp and reared 9 , 5 males and 4 females all females now placed in breeding programs with the intention of starting a fresh hybrid line for the purpose of producing well built females around 75% british blood and hopefully continuing on another generation to produce 7/8 british blood males for the purpose of stud dogs with the logic being that they only contain 2 breeds .By the third and fourth generation these dogs will be suitable for use back to select lines of well established aussie bulldogs.

The three British Bulldogs that were used by both lines initially were Hercules Wrath , a red male purchased from Gladstone by the Greens and later sold to Nobes in approximately 1994. The other dog ( teddy bear long time coming ) was a white dog ,offered to the Greens during a conversation with the owner breeder of Teddy at a Bundaberg Dog show in QLD and the contact details for this dog were forwarded to Pip Nobes at the time by the Greens and purchased by Nobes for future breeding as a stud dog to most foundation females including Miss Margarita (Maggie) The third male used was Allipundi lord Charles who was owned by a young fella in Pittsworth QLD , this dogs pet name was Max, used twice by the Greens and used overwhelmingly by Nobes. There are a number of british males used before and after these three males by nobes and greens but they were not commonly used by each other .Up to date more than 20 male British bulldogs in all states of Australia have been utilized for the purpose of creating and maintaining a typical bulldog appearance , remembering that the Aussie Bulldog is still probably 5 or 10 years away from completely holding its own breed type , Aussie Bulldog to Aussie Bulldog , because of the unexpected expansion of numbers giving us a lot greater challenge at hand . Saying that you are breeding Aussie Bulldog back to Aussie Bulldog at this stage means very little if you do not have thoroughly compatible bloodlines .This is possible , but very minimal .It is easy to mate two dogs together ( anyone can do that ) but the secret is knowing how to ensure that the litter will be correct. If we do not take some control of the matings being done , then the aussie bulldogs will more than likely in 50 years time be as inconsistent looking as a numbers of registered breeds .This can not be argued by the canine , because we have personally seen 230 bullmastiffs at 1 gathering and honestly you would have trouble finding 10 that look similar.

Greens & Nobes looking at the betterment of the breed from each a slightly different perspective formed an association with its name suggested by Noel & Tina known as the UABA ( United Aussie Bulldog Association) in Nov 2003 to bring all lines of Aussies together under the one association and concentrate on increasing consistency and breed type by getting breeders to work in together and to promote the breed to the general public . In 2005 Pip Nobes later formed the ABS ( Australian Bulldog Society). At that point Pip had approximately 10 years experience with this type of dog , and Noel & Tina had been heavily involved for more than 17 years .Pip Nobes earlier interest with introducing bullmastiff to her lines , came as a result of comparing her puppies to our heavy boned square headed aussies. Continually we found ourselves disagreeing with Pip or Pip disagreeing with us on a number of issues and now find it easier to do our own thing. Resulting in the two separate Breed Associations .In the last 13 years we have not really had a great lot to do with the Nobes dogs and our Aussie bulldogs were started completely independently before Pip Nobes and we have found continual success with the well thought direction in which we are heading .

Whether this breed becomes registered with the Australian National Kennel Council (ANKC) or not , they have already been recognised here for their improved function and lovable nature by all families that now own one.
The Aussie Bulldog has a lot better future if bred continually to the most compatible dogs. The percentage scale is in place working hand in hand with the number of generations and the record of particular breeds used to give us a thorough evaluation of a dogs breed certificate .Photos are requested from every litter bred before being excepted into the aussie Bulldog Register by the UABA

The Greens registrar was handled by the Cauchis for 18 mths due to Tina's Ill health . Joe & Louise Cauchi still run their personal registrar today , but the UABA breeder records and previous records dating back to 9-06-88 being Jag foundation dogs have always been personally held by Noel & Tina up to and including current breed details and registrations from 80 breeders .

The introduction of Cauchi breeding came into place in late1998 . Joe & Louise Cauchi's dogs were from mostly Johnson American Bulldog / British Bulldog origin and were later bred back to Jag / Green lines .
Devass Kennels owned by Mannie & Debbie Vassalo kicked off in 1999 by using American Bulldogs purchased from Cauchi Kennels and were very selectively put to quality male british bulldogs ,such as Devass Gregory and Perciles Hero and then continued to increase percentages as were seen necessary . These two Breeders lines are now interlinked to a lot of aussie bulldogs in Australia.

For the start of the Aussie Bulldog photographic records please click through the below pages to look at the breed developing from each generation onwards ,these are the exact records that have been kept by the Greens with each litter documented in a book starting from the 9-06-88.

Due to the large photo documentation of this breed these further pages are still under construction .
We appreciate your patience .

All information above was written by Noel & Tina Green and is proven to be true and correct in all aspects .
For all enquires regarding the Aussie Bulldog and the Beginning section please email: uaba@bigpond.net.au