A HOME
OF
TRUE BULLDOGS 
WELCOME TO OUR SITE WHICH HAS BEEN MADE INFORMATIVE FOR NEW
AND OLD BULLDOGGERS ALIKE.
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Updated 18th August 2010 
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We
are Tony and Barbara Darmanin and live with our Bulldogs in the beautiful,
rolling countryside of rural Shropshire England...our three daughters and son
live in their own respective homes not too far away.
Leslie and Mary
Lewis , Barbara's parents owned Bulldogs before she was born, in fact, her dad
owned his first bulldog in 1925 when he was thirteen years old. Upon his
retirement in 1977 he decided to breed again and produced a litter which
contained our first Bulldog Earl Benjamin .
We had owned and bred Staffordshire
Bull Terriers but had just had a bad experience with a C section necessitating a
hysterectomy on a loved young Staffie Bitch (Jane) , who had just carried her
first litter (she subsequently mothered many Bulldog puppies until she
died aged thirteen) .This experience exposed us to C sections and it became
evident that all breeds from time to time needed this surgery to overcome birth
problems and was not as we had thought a unique risk when breeding Bulldogs.
Earl Benjamin proved a great show dog winning many trophies and prizes at
Open and Championship
Show level and we were overjoyed when he obtained his stud
book entry. He can be found on all our pedigrees. Of course we were now well and truly hooked. We bought a young
brindle bitch Leebarton Isis and under the tutelage of Ellen and Les Cotton
(Aldridge Bulldogs) we bred our first litter, joined several Bulldog Clubs and
became Committee members of The Birmingham and Midland Counties Bulldog Club ,
later Tony was invited onto the committee of The Bulldog Club Incorporated, enjoyed stewarding and also started his Judging career in the U.K..
In the mid eighties an opportunity arose for us to go and live in the USA and
together with ten Bulldogs a Peke and a Lhasa Apso we settled in Ottsville
Pennsylvania .We joined local Bulldog Clubs and attended as many shows as Tony's
busy schedule allowed .He was Manager of International for a New Jersey based
Multi National and was globe trotting for most of his working life.
In 1992 due to company acquisitions we elected to move back to England and
did so with ten
Bulldogs (some different to the ones with which we had arrived
in the USA)
a cat and a Lhasa Apso. We rejoined the UK Bulldog Clubs and were voted onto the
Committee of the 'Birmingham' where Tony later became the club's secretary from 1998
to 2010.In 1999 he accepted early retirement which enabled him to Judge the Breed at CC level
not only in the UK but so far , also in Australia ,Bulgaria, The Czech
Republic, Denmark. France, Holland,
Hungary, Spain , Switzerland and the USA.. Pictures of his winners are on
the "Judging" page .Our
hobby has made us many friends worldwide who share our love for this breed and
we invite you to view the following pages on this site for pictures of the dogs
we have living with us and those who have done so over the years but are sadly
no longer here.
You can contact us on:
Should you wish to comment
amdarmanin@btinternet.com
