Welcome to our little slice of French Bulldog heaven in Kansas City, Missouri. As passionate, ethical breeders, we’re dedicated to upholding the highest standards of health and well-being for our pups. Through DNA testing with Animal Genetics, we ensure that our puppy parents are in the best of health, both physically and in their beautiful coat colors.

With our nest nearly empty, Brandy and I have happily transitioned to raising these adorable little companions. Before these precious pups find their forever homes, they receive top-notch potty training and are lovingly socialized by our nieces and nephews, providing the ultimate care and attention.

We can’t wait to welcome you into our extended family and share the joy of these wonderful puppies with you. It’s going to be so much fun!

When I came to faith in Christ I had just spent some considerable time in Mexico and Nicaragua.  My life was forever changed with an encounter in Costa Rica.   The eyes of my heart were opened to just how disgusting and sinful of a human being I was in reality.  Through this eye opening time, I eventually came to a real saving faith in Jesus Christ. He then called me to come back home, much like in the story of the prodigal son.   I was chasing the world, the things of the world, but God granted me a second chance to life.  I began to read the book of John, and the book of James, and with my eyes newly opened to the realness of Jesus Christ, I began to grow in faith.   This slow growing of faith has not been without my many failings, I don’t do things perfectly, but now I know Christ is walking with me.   We attempt to do all things, with Christ in mind.  Often we do it  imperfectly but our intent is to tell as many people as we can about the Good News of Jesus Christ.

We now attend Bethel Baptist Church —> https://bethelbaptistchurch

Although we don’t often consider it this way, dogs are really about people — those historical (or occasionally contemporary) figures who created specific breeds for specific purposes. Some breeds, including the Teddy Roosevelt Terrier, Cesky Terrier, and Doberman Pinscher, owe their existence to a single creative individual. Other breeds were developed by particular people or social groups.

A group of people and their environment come together to form civilization, and the same is true for their dogs. Our purebred dogs are living, breathing moments of history, reflections of the distant cultures that developed and nurtured them, with coats that have evolved to survive the local climate, body types developed to navigate native terrains, and personalities that fit into the social values of the day.   Through them, we rediscover our globe’s cultural diversity and heritage.

The Rise of the French Bull Dog

We’ll travel to Paris’ renowned Montmartre district on any given night in the 1890s to get a closer look at the French Bulldog’s rather unusual ancestry. During the Belle Époque, a period of economic prosperity that saw a boom in technology and the arts, medieval Paris was slowly but steadily being transformed into the stylish, modern city it is today.

Montmartre was a thriving nightlife area, despite the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré-Coeur rising on the hilltop above it, which was silently disapproving. Its affordable rents drew a diverse group of working-class Parisians, and its cabarets and cafes drew countless artists, including names deserving of inclusion in museums like Picasso, Renoir, Matisse, Degas, and so on.

Montmartre had a lot of brothels among its brasseries and bistros. The city’s belles de nuit frequently wore cartoonishly round, erect ears, plunging necklines, and silk stockings in addition to a small, snub-nosed dog with an exaggerated personality. French Bulldogs and sex workers in Paris became inextricably linked, to the point where the dogs started to appear in risque postcards from the late 19th and early 20th centuries alongside the sex workers’ scantily clad mistresses.

French Bulldogs from this era also appeared in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s post-Impressionist paintings, the so-called “recorder of Montmartre.” Bouboule, a French bulldog owned by Madame Palmyre, the proprietor of the renowned café La Souris (also known as “the Mouse”), was his most well-known canine subject. Palmyre was described by the poet Paul Leclerq as “a buxom woman with the ferocious appearance of a bulldog who, though in reality exceedingly kindhearted, always seemed to be on the point of biting.” When customers had the audacity to try to pet him, Bouboule was infamous for peeing on their ankles.

The French Bulldog’s journey, which included three countries, two continents, and essentially every social class before the breed was refined into the ideal companion we know today, began with our vignette in Montmartre and only reached its halfway point.

The French Bulldog, as its name implies, is descended from the native Bulldog of Britain, which, compared to its relatives, was bigger and, at least during the early 19th century, badder. Bulldogs were required to be bulldogs in order to compete in the dangerous sport of bull-baiting, which involved grabbing an enraged cow by the nose and holding on for dear life.

Bulldogs headed to the show ring when bull-baiting and other forms of animal combat were outlawed in England in the 1830s, where they were divided into size classes, even those for the tiniest of these charming creatures, the English Toy Bulldog.

The cottage industries of the English countryside were literally threatened with extinction as early as the 1810s by machines that could produce textile goods a hundred times faster than a human hand could. A mysterious figure with a similar rogue operating style emerged in Nottinghamshire, which had previously gained fame as the home of Robin Hood. An uprising of furious textile workers under Ned Ludd’s leadership saw them smash the cutting-edge machinery with sledgehammers in the dead of night and write letters of protest addressed to “Ned Ludd’s office, Sherwood Forest.” Although ultimately unsuccessful in his attempts to halt progress, Ludd lives on in the term “Luddite,” which now refers to someone who disapproves of technological advancements.

By the time the Toy Bulldog arrived, Ludd’s uprising had subsided and Nottingham’s highly skilled, self-employed artisans had been replaced by low-wage laborers who put in long hours in frequently unsafe mills. Nobody is quite sure why these female lacemakers developed a fondness for the Toy Bulldogs.

In the cramped quarters that were all the women could afford with their meager wages, perhaps these miniature bulldogs consumed less food and took up less space. They may have made an alluring detour for fleas that were otherwise human-bound because they fit comfortably on a lap.

What is known is that when the Industrial Revolution eliminated the lace workers’ amusing little Bulldogs, they were devastated. They left their jobs behind and traveled to the Normandy region of northern France, taking the dogs with them across the English Channel. There, the value of custom clothing persisted, and lacemakers’ aptitude with fabric and needles was still in high demand. The little dogs quickly gained favor with various echelons of society, including the aforementioned ladies of the evening. Some of the puppies even had wonky, erect ears as opposed to the traditional “rosed,” or crinkled, ears prized by Bulldog purists.

The Most Popular Dog Today

However, the popularity of the French Bulldog didn’t end there. Due to its courtesan history, it was fashionable among the ruling class and even the royals of the time. Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, a French bulldog named Ortipo, belonged to Tsar Nicholas II. Ortipo is thought to have suffered the same fate as the other members of the Russian imperial family. Fabergé created a quartz sculpture of the spirited dog that is now on display in a St. Petersburg museum.
The breed eventually caught the attention of American tourists, who brought it to the country, where it is now on its third and last leg of travel. Even a French Bulldog is known to have perished on the Titanic: She was insured by her owner, banker Robert Williams Daniel, for 150 British pounds, or approximately $17,000 in today’s U.S. dollars. Daniel survived the sinking. The dog, named Gamin de Pycombe, did not.

The Frenchies that did make it over to this side of the Atlantic always demonstrated how charming the breed was throughout the world. The first French Bulldog club in history was founded by Americans, who also codified the breed’s distinctive “bat” ears.

This adorable little bowling ball-shaped dog was created in England, made popular in France, and refined in America. It has charmed everyone from call girls to kings. Its rags-to-riches tale perfectly captures the American dream, which has always been about reinventing yourself and focusing on where you want to go rather than where you have been.