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Created
by Todd Tripp of Ohio in the late 1990's.
My vision was to re-create
the Brabanter Bullenbeisser of the 1700’s in central Belgium province known as
Brabant. A strong working dog with a bully build, there legs still underneath
them they were believed to range from 40-80pds a slight under bite and mostly solid in color with
minimal white. My foundation consisted or dogs that were Boxer and of a working bull breed. Most of all was the
consistency of using a High percentage of Boxer in the foundation brood stock.
Being very selective in choosing dogs to be in my foundation and by using
selective breeding to reach the final goal.
This
information below helped me to begin to create our breed of dog known
as The Banter Bulldogge
The
Brabanter Bullenbeisser was the small Bullenbeisser type that was found as a family
guard and working dog in the 1700's early 1800's. The Brabanter Bullenbeisser was the
smaller more bull doggy type of Mastiff used to create the modern day Boxer in
conjunction with other Larger Bavarian mastiffs and the obvious infusion of the
"Old Time English Bulldogge's". It is also widely known that the
Brabanter carried very little if any White until the 1830's when the first
English type Bulldogge was first imported into Germany.

** John
Wagner's Book, The Boxer, first published in 1939 **
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" This Brabanter Bullenbeisser, once the sole property of the nobility,
became the butcher's and the cattle dealer's dog His intelligence and
tractability enabled the Bullenbeisser to reinvent himself as a family and a
guard dog. The Brabanter, was developed for use in close quarters on small game
and was bred in the central Belgian province of Brabant." Wagner, 1950) **
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"his remarkable intelligence and tractability endeared him to so large a
group of individuals that he carried on when so many breeds completely
disappeared. " (Wagner, 1950)**
Examples
of Brabanter's below
How
the Name came to be.
The Banter meaning in
definition “to address in a witty and teasing manner, Good-natured and usually
witty and animated joking" this uncanny word meaning to the description of
the temperament of our breed was interesting. Also coming from the Old Belgium dogs of the
1700's from the area in and around Brabant know as the Brabanter Bullenbeisser. This Helped to lead me to the name Banter Bulldogge.
Banter Bulldogge's are athletic and very capable of many of today's
canine sports such as weight pull, agility and personal protection. They are
also at home doing terrier work or just as a home pet/watchdog. They must be
loyal, great with children and never be overly Human aggressive but yet cautious
of strangers.
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