The Dogger-type, as the Bulldog belongs to, is referredto as early as year 1121 b.c. in a chinese document. The document tellsus that some Tibetan delegators brought a dog as a gift for the Chineseemperor. It was a Doggertype, in height 60 cm. at shoulder, and it wasraised to hunt for people. At the Inca-excavations dog-sculls of the Doggertypewas found, but they are considered mainly to be of Eastern origin. Thedogger came to Greece from east about 500 b.c. and from there the Romansbrought some of them with them to the middle Europe some centuries later.In Liebfrauen Church in Arnstadt in Germany you can see a Bulldog likedog on a tombstone from the year 1350. From 500-600 years back, a Germandog called Bullenbeisser or Bra banter is known. It wasn't very big, butrather compact, very active and had longer legs than the English Bulldog,very much like the American Bulldog. It was used for bear-, wolf-, wildboar and deer hunting.

The first time a Bulldog was named a Bulldog was in theyear 1631. The dogs weighed about 45 kg and butchers used them in relationto their occupation to catch or bring down game. Bulldogs quickly becamepopular among gamblers, who placed bets on how long time it took one orseveral dogs to defeat a bull. The bullfights however became prohibitedin England in the year 1835, but continued many years after that, secretlyand in others countries. A German authority on dogs refers to the Bullenbeisserand the Bulldog as being the same breed in the year 1876. These dogs havea faint resemblance to the American Bulldog, where they from the last partof the nineteenth century has been bred towards the life-hampered dogsthey are today. Unfortunately not the only breed marked in that direction,where their ability to survive exclusively is based on human care. Bulldogand Bullenbeisser are ancestors to the Boxer and is also considered tobe ancestors to a couple of other breeds.