I don't remember if I have already posted a welcome so greetings and welcome to EBN. Tank is a very nice looking bulldog. You have received some helpful advice in this thread on your enquiry on breeding Tank. I have only been in this forum since the beginning of the year but as much as I can tell the folks here are really and sincerely interested in the well being of their dogs, bulldogs and all dogs in general. So if some of the comments have seemed pointed it is in light of their genuine concern. Many in this forum have seen the dark side of the bulldog world and the dog world in general in that too many dogs are ill cared for and abandoned to live miserable existences and many here have gone to great lengths to save as many as possible and to reduce those outcomes. About 3 to 4 million dogs are euthanized in the US alone every year. And I don't know the exact number but that many or more puppies are being born here as well. So it raises the question, one which I contemplated when I was searching for my next dog. That is should one get a puppy or get a shelter or rescue dog. I wish that all could be saved and may also myself rescue one in the future, but what about the millions of pups being born in the US each year? What will happen to them. I dearly love my Ace but if I didn't get him some one would have and what would have become of him? Every abandoned dog, shelter dog, rescue dog was once a puppy which either wound up in favorable or unfavorable circumstances. So either choice, to get a puppy or a rescue dog has behind the decision various considerations. Both or either can be considered thoughtfully and with best intentions. The well being of the dog and the owner and the likelihood of the well being of both. Your enquiry into the possible breeding of your dog and the responses you have received here are both commendable. To acquire as much knowledge as you can before you make the decision, and desire the best outcome, one that is in the best interest of the dog, the breed and to know what you are getting into is the proper attitude. Even if you decide not to, for whatever reasons, be it the possible heath issue in your dogs lineage, and hopefully there aren't any or for other reason then let us not kid ourselves, someone else WILL. Better to have breeders that have the best interest of the breed and the dogs that they are responsible for producing, with good health and temperaments than those breeders who really don't care so long as they can enrich themselves in one way or another. You could be one that helps by being a responsible breeder or choosing not to breed your dog as the case may be doing so for the right reasons. As for seeking advice, you have found a place here where you will get good and honest advice with the well being of dogs at heart. As far as seeking out a breeder who has bred AKC championship Bulldogs and bloodlines, I have mixed feelings on that. The health issues of Bulldogs runs much deeper that whether or not the dog is an AKC champion or from a champion lineage. Becoming an AKC champion is about conformation not necessarily health. If health and well being of the dogs and line is what is paramount a champion Bulldog in not necessarily the criterion in my opinion. They may be healthy and they may not. As I stated the health and well being of Bulldogs runs much deeper that championship titles. In fact I think that the conformation that tends to win the titles is not necessarily health promoting. The exaggerations in Bulldog conformation that wins championships is a much different look to what Bulldogs looked like many years ago and the changes were not promoted because of health or well being
