Greetings from Bruiser Bulldogs and The Wysongs
We are a family absolutely in love with the Bulldog breed and are dedicated to breeding genetically healthy English Bulldog puppies. As responsible AKC English Bulldog breeders, our extensive experience and unique take on the need for a healthier English Bulldog has positioned our breeding program as a visionary leader for adopters in search of a higher quality Bulldog. At our core, we love placing healthy, properly socialized puppies into loving families. There is no greater joy than to be able to share our lifelong passion for English Bulldogs with our adopter families. Feel free to read our blog, watch our videos and learn why Bruiser Bulldogs is producing a better bulldog.
Our Focus
Superior Health
Our approach to breeding AKC English Bulldogs has always been a little bit different from most breeders. Instead of focusing on maximizing wrinkles or winning in the show ring, we have built our foundational bloodlines over the past decade with a focus on health first and foremost. Sires and Dams are health tested with a unique criteria. Bruiser Bulldogs must breathe freely, move athletically while still maintaining that classic English Bulldog look that people around the world have come to love. Our goal has always been consistently produce puppies that are both a head turner and fundamentally healthy.
Bloodline development is the key to producing healthy bulldogs. We believe that foundational genetics are created through layer after layer of breeding healthy generations of bulldogs. Over the course of a decade, we have focused on a stringent set of health criteria to gradually improve the health and quality of the dogs we produce. The rare combination of experience, repetition, and ethical awareness of correct breeding practices have set our breeding program at the forefront of responsible breeding practices. Learn More >
Recognized and supported by Dr. Neils Pedersen, veterinary researcher at UC Davis and featured in National Geographic’s article on the state of the Bulldog.
Adopter Support
We intentionally use the word “adopter” because it sheds light on our philosophy behind the families that our puppies eventually go home to. The process truly is an adoption that affects the time, focus, and schedules of each household that gets a puppy from us. After a healthy puppy, the single most critical factor for a successful bulldog adoption is adopter support. The English Bulldog is unique breed with a unique set of caretaking criteria. Previous dog ownership, while helpful, is not enough to fully prepare an adopter for English Bulldog ownership. We always say the adoption is just the beginning of our journey. Our commitment to each adopter family and their Bulldog is 24/7/365.
Adopter Education – Bruiser Bulldog University
Every Bruiser Bulldog adopter is provided a foundation of Bulldog education that creates the groundwork for a successful adoption. Through blog articles and email prep, we focus on such topics as socialization, crate training, disease prevention, potty training, nutrition, and basic puppy supplies to ensure that each adopter will be fully prepared for their new puppy.
Socialization
Our emphasis on socialization rounds out the third leg of focus within our breeding program after healthy genetics and adopter support. Our comprehensive socialization program ensures that each Bruiser Bulldog is prepared to flourish in their new home. We have built our socialization program to specifically address the strengths and weaknesses of the English Bulldog breed and prepare each puppy for the experiences that they will face as they transition to their new home.
As a top AKC English Bulldog breeder, one of our goals is to prepare every one of our puppy’s for their future life while they are at our home. We want to ensure they are provided with as many experiences as possible in their early life so they adjust to their new homes as smoothly as possible. A proper socialization program will provide the building blocks for future training, improve human/canine relationships as the puppy grows, and will even help foster positive relationships with other dogs and pets in their new home. These positive benefits are possible because socialization replaces fear with experience. An effective program creates personalities that are calm and confident instead of cautious and suspicious. By allowing each puppy to “know” more of the world through experiences, positive life responses are opened and made possible.
We base our socialization program on unique experiences that build confident and positive behavior. This method of socialization was first introduced by Dr. Carmen Battaglia and is a requirement for every puppy that is placed into an adopter’s home. Below is an example of the type of checklist of experiences that our puppies are introduced to at Bruiser Bulldog’s breeding program.
Greetings from the Wysongs!
Northern Indiana based, Bruiser Bulldogs offers purebred English Bulldogs to loving adopters seeking to find a higher quality English Bulldog. Mitch and Erica Wysong have dedicated themselves to a lifelong journey of changing the culture and societal pressures of poor breeding practices within the English Bulldog Community.
Mitch and Erica believe in producing a healthy puppy first and foremost. Through years of research and development, Bruiser Bulldogs is leading a new movement away from the overdone, wrinkled bulldog that has been long plagued by health problems. By embracing a healthier, more athletic look they are able to ensure that each and every English Bulldog produced by Bruiser Bulldogs is supported by a platform of health tested, clean genetics.
Upon adoption, each family that takes on the responsibility of a Bruiser Bulldog enters into an active and vibrant communal family of bulldog owners. Mitch and Erica believe it is their responsibility to provide emotional and mental support for the lifetime of each and every puppy they produce. To ensure the success of every adoption, Bruiser Bulldogs will always be committed to helping Bruiser Bulldog adopters care for their English Bulldogs to the best of their ability.
Bruiser Bulldog’s Reviews
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Bruiser Bulldogs are known to be healthy. As English Bulldog Breeders, how do you breed for a healthier English Bulldog?
Like all things in life, breeding for health is simply a matter of priority. We are blind to many of the breed priorities that distract other AKC bulldog breeders from improving the health of the English Bulldog. We focus on health and personality and very little else. We are not interested in winning a blue ribbon in the show ring. Rather, we test for things like elongated soft palates, narrow tracheas, stenotic nares, luxation in the patellar tendons, heart defects, cherry eye, optic cilia, entropion, ect. We focus and prioritize creating healthy bloodlines, therefore our bulldogs are typically much healthier than the breed as a whole. While it’s not rocket science, it is a uniquely different take within bulldog breeders.
After breeding for health, what other priorities are you focused on?
Our true desire is to create the perfect family bulldog. We believe a healthy bulldog = a happy family. We also believe a bulldog bred for the correct personality is essential to the family unit as well. A Bruiser Bulldog is bred for intelligence and playfulness. We want our bulldogs to be full of personality and some quirk. We believe a full personality along with a little stubbornness is the true North star of the bulldog breed and is what makes them unique among other breeds. We look for these personality traits in our adult bulldogs and continue to create bloodlines that reflect these qualities.
I am looking for English Bulldog Breeders near me. Where are you located?
We are located in the Northeast corner of Indiana. We just happen to be about 2.5 hour drive from the Illinois state line and specifically Chicago. We are also about a 30 minute drive from the Michigan and Ohio state lines. Other major cities within 2.5 hour driving distance are Indianapolis, Detroit, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Cleveland. If you are looking for an English Bulldog breeder near you and happen to be in one of these areas we are certainly within close proximity.
What if I am not located locally? Do you offer delivery services?
A large portion of our adopters are located on the East Coast and Southern states. While many do make the drive to pickup, we also offer a delivery service to those with extremely busy schedules or limited ability to travel. We personally hand delivery our AKC bulldogs to our East Coast and Southern adopter’s homes to ensure they arrive safe and stress free. We also utilize our own flight nanny for our West Coast adopters looking to have their puppy hand delivered. Whether through pickup or through delivery service, we try to be the type of bulldog breeder that is ethical and responsible to both our bulldogs and adopters.
“If you are interested in learning more about our breeding philosophies here at Bruiser Bulldogs, the following articles that we have written might be helpful”
1. How does a top Bulldog Breeder think and act?
2. What are the specific Bulldog coat colors that we offer at Bruiser?
3. Want to check out our page specifically devoted to Chicago adopters?
4. Learn about our foundational females.
5. Check out our stud page to learn about our top male bulldogs.
6. Learn about the week by week growth a bulldog puppy.
7. What to look for in a bulldog breeder.
8. Should you adopt from a local breeder?
“Lastly, If you are interested in a specific color of Bulldog we have specific articles devoted to each color we breed for along with opinion of each coat color. If you are interested in a specific color, we suggest it is worth your time to read up on our first-hand opinions.”
Coat Color Articles
Where Do Our Bulldogs Live?
Check out the state pages devoted to each location that our Bulldog adopters live in.