WALKER'S CHERRY BOMB (PEDIGREE)
IDCR# IDC2069F; NKC# NKC09-900334074
HEIGHT AT WITHERS: 21"
WEIGHT: 76 LBS.

An Old School Johnson Girl

This is Walker's Cherry Bomb, purchased from Walker's American Bulldogs, Silver Creek, Georgia. The term "old school" may be played out, but when it fits, it fits, and Cherry is truly a very old school Johnson American Bulldog girl. From her zero fat, pure muscle frame, to her VERY bully head and body type, to her tenacious, no nonsense bulldog attitude, paired with a love for children, Cherry is the epidomy of a proper Johnson girl - fantastic structure too!

Cosmetic Faults

As you can see, our Cherry Bomb has a red nose. She also has amber eyes, both of these being cosmetic faults according to the NKC Breed Standard. We don't really care much about that. A good typey dog is a good typey dog, regardless of the color of its nose and eyes. Clearly the genetic possibility for red noses and amber eyes exist in the breed, so why should such things be used to further restrict the gene pool? It's just silliness. Whoever made that rule must have been drinking the AKC Kool Aid that afternoon, where highly technical cosmetic rules have restricted gene pools so badly as to outright destroy breeds of otherwise fine dogs through inbreeding depression.

 

I believe in breeding good dog to good dog, with no observance of such nonsense as pigment colors - nonsense that in fact harms a breed, not helps it - nonsense that bulldoggers used to mock AKC breeders over, always making new pretenteous rules that systematically destroy their own breeds. Some American Bulldogs have red noses and amber eyes - plain and simple, and we'll just keep breeding those dogs here at Blasco Family Bulldogs©, whenever they're remarkable enough to be worth breeding. Or alternatively, would you rather have dogs like our Cherry Bomb become extinct, and raise the COI on the breed still higher?

Anyway, end of my rant. Is Cherry just a pretty girl, or what? Gosh I love this little bulldog girl. She's hard as nails on my yard when she needs to be, and none of the bigger dogs even think of trying to push her around, but in her heart, she's just sweet as cherry pie, and Cherry basically gets along with everyone.

Unwilling to Move...

In this shot, Cherry has been laying there wide awake for over an hour as Kat sleeps, unwilling to move for fear of waking her. Judah used to do this exact same thing, as do a number of the others. American Bulldogs really are just very child oriented. Cherry is a sweet heart.

That's the Way They Do It...

Here Cherry is tied on with Doc. Dogs start out with the male on top, and then upon successful entry, climb off and turn themselves all the way around backwards. This shot is also good for a size comparison. Doc is 115 pounds and just over 27 1/2" at the withers (shoulders). Cherry is under 80 pounds, only 21" at the withers. Cherry is a little girl. That's common among American Bulldogs, the female being much smaller than the male. Doc and Lilly's mom, Bella, is small also, but produces dogs of at least 100 pounds exclusively. Cherry and Doc produced Nacho from this breeding. Nacho is a 100 pound dog.

Pack Whelping...

Cherry is great mom. Here she is with Nacho, small litters being common for very tightly bred dogs, such as Cherry. We had another female outright reject her puppies only hours after birth. Cherry adopted them too. For a while, Cherry's adopted litter, plus Nacho, and a different litter of Bellas, all nursed freely between both mothers. It made for some very fat little dogs - and a busy, hectic house with 18 puppies running back and forth between two nursing mothers! Take a look at Nacho's page to see how she and Doc produced.