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 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. Learn More
Ethical Guidlines
Our goal is to produce the healthiest bulldog possible – but how we get there also matters to us. We have ethical guidelines that focus on the quality of life of our bulldogs, overbreeding bulldog mom’s and rare color breeding. We feel well state ethics are often ignored in bulldog breeding and is something that is deeply tied to our passion for the breed. You are welcome to learn more on our ethics page. 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 โadopterโ 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
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 โknowโ 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 adopterโs home. Below is an example of the type of checklist of experiences that our puppies are introduced to at Bruiser Bulldogโs breeding program.
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. Our English Bulldog Puppies for sale are health tested and come from genetically clean bloodlines. 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 looking for an English Bulldog for sale but are not local – we have several options available to you!
“If you are interested in a specific color of Bulldog we have articles devoted to the details and history of each coat color we breed for along with opinions about health and ethics connnected to rare colors. You are also welcome to check out our ethics page for more info.”
Coat Color Articles
Where Do Our Bulldogs Live?
Check out the state pages devoted to each location that our Bulldog adopters live in.