Our daughter with
Rio Bravo's Haley
Rio Bravo's Haley
a daughter of Rio Bravo's Sisco
Rio Bravo Bulldogges was established for the most part in early 1992, however we began our journey in the dog world earlier by competing in the conformation show ring, obedience training and breeding various bully breeds in 1987 with the United Kennel Club.
In those early years we owned and produced several UKC & ADBA
conformation Champions and Grand Champions. We also have
produced several dogs that have gone on to earn titles in
agility, obedience, the German canine sport of schutzhund and
weight pulling.
Over
the past 20 plus years we have had the pleasure of owning or
being closely associated with a diverse variety of Bull and
Molosser breeds such as the American Pit Bull Terrier, American
Bulldogs, Boxers, Dogue De Bordeauxs (French Mastiff),
Neapolitan Mastiffs, Valley Bulldogs, English Bantam Bulldogges, English Bulldogs, French Bulldogs, Olde Boston Bulldogges and
our favorite the Olde English Bulldogge.
In 1992 along with a few friends we began working
on a small breeding program of our own line of Olde English Bulldogges. We
initially purchased our first generational Olde English Bulldog
from our friend Mr. Craig Green (R.I.P.) of Gallant Farms, this dog was a
brother to the famous Hermes Dio, his name was Gallant's Angus.
Shortly afterwards we also acquired a few dogs from Vera Rangel
of Crossbow Farms and the MacIntoshs of Mighty Mac Kennels.
However for the most part the majority of our Olde English
Bulldogges in those early years were the result of our own
foundation crosses / breedings.
Today the Rio Bravo
bloodline still carries the genetics from many of those original
combinations that we did in the early 1990s with Ruffhaus
Kennels.
After a year or so of working with our Olde English Bulldogge
breeding program, in 1995 we with a friend came up
with the conceptual idea of founding and establishing the world's first
breed specific registry for Olde English Bulldogges, where all Olde English Bulldogges
regardless of bloodline could be recognized.
This new registry would allow
other breeders to document the heritage and develop their own
lines of Olde English Bulldogges as a result the
International
Olde English Bulldogge Association (IOEBA) was established in
1995.
In the year 2002 two huge changes took place in our families' lives.
The first was our family became followers of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ. We were baptized as a family in El
Paso, Texas. The second change was that we became the exclusive
owners of the International Olde English Bulldogge
Association (IOEBA) and were to became solely
responsible for its day to day operations. Both of these
changes were very dramatic and brought about great changes in our
lives.
