Color: White or white with black mask or muzzle, brindle, red, fawns
(fallows, occasionally pied and mixed colors).
Weight: A. exceeding 55 lbs.; B. exceeding 45 lbs.; C. not exceeding 45
lbs.
Until by law abolished, the Bulldog was used for bull baiting. In
general appearance the bulldog should be a low-set, heavy-boned,
smooth-coated dog built on broad and powerful lines. His head should be
strikingly massive and large in proportion to the dog’s size, the face
extremely short, muzzle very broad, blunt and inclined upwards, body
short and well knit, the limbs stout and muscular, hind quarters very
high and strong, but rather lightly made in comparison with its heavily
made foreparts. The dog conveys an impression of determination, strength
and activity.
The Bulldog may be said to occupy the pride of place amongst the
non-sporting varieties. Furthermore, it is one of the oldest of them and
has been selected by the British themselves to typify the national
character and is often termed the national breed. Certain it is that he
conveys a “what we have we’ll hold” impression, and for a dogged,
determined, courageous and tenacious symbol one could not imagine any
breed filling the role more aptly.