About Us
Welcome to Southside American Bulldogs.
We hope you enjoy browsing through our website as our dogs are very special to us. Southside American Bulldogs are an American Bulldog kennel born in South Australia, and currently reside in Melbourne, Victoria.
We are registered breeders who are actively involved in the AB community. We have dogs that have been involved in obedience, weight pull, and pig hunting.
We love this breed and waste no opportunity to promote and educate others about the American Bulldog. We are proud of all of our dogs and each dog we have produced. We take a great amount of care to ensure our dogs are healthy, well socialised, well balanced and have great temperaments and are of correct type.
Further information about owning a Southside family member can be found on our Price & Co-ownership page.
Here at Southside American Bulldogs we breed for quality not quantity with health, temperament and type being the most important. Aiming to produce quality family oriented American bulldogs with the ability to function and work.
Breeding program consists of old school Australian bloodlines mixed with imported lines from New Zealand and America.
We strive to produce quality family and working class dogs with:
We hope you enjoy browsing through our website as our dogs are very special to us. Southside American Bulldogs are an American Bulldog kennel born in South Australia, and currently reside in Melbourne, Victoria.
We are registered breeders who are actively involved in the AB community. We have dogs that have been involved in obedience, weight pull, and pig hunting.
We love this breed and waste no opportunity to promote and educate others about the American Bulldog. We are proud of all of our dogs and each dog we have produced. We take a great amount of care to ensure our dogs are healthy, well socialised, well balanced and have great temperaments and are of correct type.
Further information about owning a Southside family member can be found on our Price & Co-ownership page.
Here at Southside American Bulldogs we breed for quality not quantity with health, temperament and type being the most important. Aiming to produce quality family oriented American bulldogs with the ability to function and work.
Breeding program consists of old school Australian bloodlines mixed with imported lines from New Zealand and America.
We strive to produce quality family and working class dogs with:
- Social, Sound and Outgoing Temperament
- Stable levels of Drive
- Strong Desire to work
- Healthy and Athletic with good wind
- Intelligent and easy to train with a confident nature
- Great structure and conformation
- Always eager to please
Our Aim |
Our Aim is to produce true American Bulldogs with the heart, strength and ability to work and do any task required of it. We wish to keep the bulldog true to its original purpose.
We strive to breed only the best quality of American Bulldogs. All of our Bulldogs are 100% health tested before any breeding's take place, Hip/Elbow scored, DNA Profiled, and tested for all genetic defects and diseases within the breed. We strive to breed with not only health tested dogs but field tested also. For Studs and Bitches see the side bar. REGISTERED BREEDERS WITH ABRA |
Our History
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Our kennel was founded/established in 2010, but our first introduction to the breed dates back years before. As a child growing up in the 90's it isn't surprising that I (Alana) fell in love with Chance, the American Bulldog from the Homeward Bound movies (1993 & 1996), but for me it was the 1994 remake of The Little Rascals. Petey was played by an American Bulldog and he was my first love in the breed.
I met my first American Bulldog at a service station in North Adelaide, South Australia in 2008. He was the father of my very first dog Ava. From that moment I was in awe of the magnificence of what this breed represents, I couldn't believe I was meeting a real AB and it was then that I truly became determined to learn more and have a purebred bulldog of my own. In 2010 we purchased our first "purebred" American Bulldog named Blaze. He was riddled with issues and had a very questionable temperament. Based on our own experience with backyard breeders we soon realised that the representation of the breed in Australia wasn't that great. We continued to research for months about breeders, types, standards, registries, the history etc. Because our first bulldog wasn't the greatest example, we became determined to better the quality of American Bulldogs in Australia. We knew exactly what we wanted the next time round and by June 2011 we had purchased what would become the beginning of our breeding program. Southside's Foundation bitch was Hay's Snow Queen. She was purchased from Performance American Bulldogs NZ. Bred by Rose & Stuart Hay, she grew up to be an exceptional addition to not only our family but to the breeding program. Without Eira (Hay's Snow Queen) we wouldn't have the dogs we do today and for that we are eternally grateful. She was the heart and soul of our home and our lives right up until her last breath. Everything we do moving forward is in her honour. She truly was the greatest American Bulldog. We aim to keep her spirit alive in each generation of her progeny. She is gone but never forgotten! |
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