Southern Style Bulldogs

[Spike]

Although bulldog breeds can be found in most countries around the world and throughout North America, nowhere on Earth are bulldogs more popular than in the Southeastern U.S.A. Thus the Georgia Bulldogs. The Georgia Bulldogs football program represents the University of Georgia in the sport of American football. Their mascot is a bulldog commonly called the English or British bulldog. His name is Uga.

Here is a list of dog breeds which originated in the South:

1- American bulldog.
2- Catahoula Bulldog.
3- Alapaha Blue-Blood Bulldog.
4- Antebellum Bulldog.
5- American Pitbull Terrier - ?
6- Plott Hound.
7- Redbone Coonhound.
8- Catahoula Leopard Dog.
9- Carolina Dog.
10- Mountain Cur.
11- Black Mouth Cur.



*All bulldog breeds have above average popularity in the South.

[Spike]

Nov 6, 2022 13:41:08 GMT Spike said:

2- Carolina Dogs.

Things we love in the South: Moon Pies, SEC football, Otis Redding, Flannery O’Connor, Cheerwine and, probably more than anything else, our dogs.
What is it about Southerners and our dogs?

Maybe it's because in the South, we're a bit more country than our cousins to the north. Perhaps we are a generation or two fewer removed from the time when having a dog was essential to surviving and living off the land. Our four-legged brethren are a bridge between that wild past and a civilized present. We take them into the woods with us and let them sniff out our game and then retrieve it for us. We train them to protect our property. And they do this in exchange for a warm place to sleep, a full belly and the love of a human family.

We love dogs because they were shaped by us and their history runs concurrently with ours. They're a part of our heritage. The Plott Hound was brought to North Carolina from Germany in the 18th century to hunt wild boars. The Redbone Coonhound was brought to the South by Scottish immigrants, then selectively bred by Southerners to create a dog with amazing stamina and tenacity. The Catahoula Leopard Dog is theorized to have been first bred in 16th century Louisiana — a cross between the Native Americans' dogs and Fernando de Soto's Greyhounds. These dogs were bred by Southerners to thrive in the South. They typify our love affair with man's best friend.

But you may have never heard of the most Southern dog alive.

This dog's ancient bloodlines were never altered by humans. Its ancestors crossed the Bering Strait with the first humans ever to settle this land — I'm talking about North America, not just the South. These dogs traveled the expanse of this great continent and went as far they could, finally creating a home on the border of Georgia and South Carolina, hidden from human eyes under longleaf pine and in cypress swamp for thousands of years. They scratched and survived and were molded by the land, made by natural selection into the perfect vessel for survival in the wild South. Unlike most dogs, they don't exist because people needed help with a job or wanted a companion. They exist only because Mother Nature decided they earned that right. And a motley crew of folks gathers every year, deep in the South Carolina woods, to help keep these mangy, yellow dogs thriving.

They're called Carolina Dogs — some folks call them Dixie Dingoes — and I have one.

I'm Southern all the way. Yes, we love our dawgs.