Common questions › Colors
The short answer
Most of what gets sold as "rare" (blue merle, chocolate merle, lilac, blue tri, fluffy, Isabella) is mass-produced now. A color doesn't make a bulldog elite.
What's actually rare is great structure, real health and perfect temperament in one dog. Get that first. Then, if you want a certain color, that's the sugar on top. I like every color: it's just never the priority.
Everyone wants a rare bulldog these days. But none of the colors mean anything if the dog falls apart by age three, or looks like every overhyped, underbuilt bulldog online. Most of what's considered rare is mass-produced now.
A lot of people get tricked, because bulldogs are so cute as puppies that it's hard to see bad health and bad structure, especially without a trained eye. That's why I tell people to look at the parents.
What's actually rare: great structure, real health and perfect temperament in one package. Thickness, compactness, strong backs, strong rear ends, no tail pockets, proper ears, dogs that run, jump and play. A color doesn't make a dog elite. It's like painting a 2002 Honda Civic Ferrari red and calling it a Ferrari. What makes a Ferrari is the engine and the build. The paint is sugar on top.
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Those colors used to be rare. Now people breed just to get them and put a price tag on the color, and you shouldn't be paying for color. It's not the hard part and not the important part. Anyone can copy color. You can't fake quality.
How does the dog move, stand and look? The compactness, the ratios, the movement: that's what makes a dog stand out. Add a dog that's good with kids, family and other dogs, and real mini or micro size, and now you're talking about rare.
My biggest advice for getting anything: never get it from someone who doesn't already have what you want, in multiple examples, not just one.
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The question I hate: "Do you have any blue tri merles? Any lilacs?" Right off the bat, it hurts you. Ask it only after you know the dogs' temperament, health, structure and functionality, and then you want all that in blue tri.
Ask instead: Are they socialized? Who are the parents, how do they move, how long do they live? Did you produce the parents, and their parents? How many minis or micros do you have? How are their hearts, hips, kneecaps and breathing? How are the parents with kids, and were the puppies raised around kids?
Don't get me wrong: I like fawn, white, black, blue, merle, every color. What I like is structure, health, temperament and functionality all combined, and then the color.
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This is Mac, Fury's son, a lilac tri merle. To be lilac a dog has to be double blue and double chocolate. Tri means double tri. Those are recessive and have to be doubled up. Merle is dominant, so one copy does it. He's double chocolate, double blue, double tri and single merle, with greenish-blue eyes and great structure.
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Want a certain color? Tell me, and I'll tell you honestly what I have, health first.
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