During the Meeting of the Central Committee on February 19, the following important decisions were taken: "The newly founded Continental Bulldog Club Schweiz has been recognized as new breed club of Switzerland At the same time, the Breed Standard and the Breed and Selection Regulations of the newly founded club were approved as well as the attribution of the CAC and Reserve-CAC and the Junior-CAC and Reserve-Junior-CAC to Continental Bulldogs and the homologation of the titles Swiss Beauty Champion and Junior Swiss Beauty Champion."

 

Thus the immense work for the recognition of the new breed by the International Canine Federation FCI could start. The criterions hereof are very severe. Eight bloodlines which are completely independent  from one another are needed which means that no animal of the ancestors of one bloodline in three generations (parents, grand-parents and great-grand-parents) of the basic dogs may appear in one of the other seven bloodlines. Out of eight litters of each of these eight bloodlines two dogs and six bitches which are not siblings have to exist.

Of course I have in the passage of time been able to accumulate a lot of experiences with the new breed and compare these with the experiences I gained through the many years of English Bulldog breeding.

 By now I have come fairly close to my goal resp. fulfilment of the criterions set by FCI. The many encouraging statements I received from owners of the Continental Bulldog and other dog lovers have sustained me through all these years to go to the end of the chosen path despite the many negatives which practically all of them have nothing to do with breeding.

I am looking forward to the time when I can slow down and just create the phenotype I visualize which has not always been possible so far due to the rules of the eight blood lines.