Ferocia Kennels

12/08/2024

A pic of handsome big boy Cooper I got from his owners 🎄 Cooper is from the Vivid x Knuckles A litter ❤️

11/30/2024

There is a lot of great information here - especially where he touches on the findings of Dr Hilliard. There is a reason that you don't see the formal type of "temperament testing" done here - I have not found them to be very accurate or helpful in the long run. Most of what I am looking at and observing is personality and character traits with a few specific things in the working picks I have learned to look for specifically in my litters (that may not apply to other lines or breeds).

Something to note in this, his breed is the Malinois. So when he mentions success in working and looking at a litter for how many dogs were accomplished in sport or the desired endeavors - unfortunately that does not apply to the American Bulldog. It is very difficult to find more than one or two dogs from a litter that have been worked or accomplish things that show what I want to see. I also look much further into pedigrees than just the parents and siblings of parents. I look not only at working traits but at the hip/elbow results of the full/half siblings of the parents and grandparents and also THEIR offspring. I look for if the lines involved have been crossed before and what the results of that were. I look at the trends of type/conformation, size, etc.

There is so much that goes into breeding dogs and selecting puppies. The things I look at and look for in my litters may not be what someone else looks for. What I look for in an American Bulldog is not what I would look for in another breed, either.

11/26/2024

Early Thanksgiving treat for the beasts - some amazing local grass fed free range beef heart and tongue 😋

11/18/2024

This lovely girl is Olive! She's from the 2023 Vivid x Mucho B litter and is owned by a veterinarian that says Olive is a wonderful intern 😂 The second and third pics are from back in May when the litter turned a year - I forgot to post them! Her owner says Olive is "More than we could've hoped for, she's truly a great dog." And as a breeder nothing makes me more proud than happy dogs in happy homes ❤️

11/04/2024

Tractor Supply trip with Beefcake today, here's a shopping cart size comparison 🤣

10/28/2024

Happy Birthday Mack!! Can't believe you are 2 years old already ❤️ His owners took him yurt camping at the beach for his birthday and he's enjoying a nap in the first pic 😴 The second pic is from August when he was at an airshow with his owners 🎉

09/21/2024

Small - Large $28 XLarge - XXLarge $32

09/19/2024

Really missing this boy today, he was something else

Please pardon the junk on the property... my landlord moved onto the property in a motorhome after his divorce and brought a lot of JUNK with him. Just a sup...

09/18/2024

Testing, testing.. got a new phone and Instagram won't share to Facebook

09/08/2024

Instagram won’t share the post since I included videos🙄

Dragon is a good sized male at 90 # and a touch under 26”. He has a big hybrid type head with a little less muzzle than I prefer but still plenty to bite with. He has good teeth with a tight undershot bite.

This boy has excellent nerve and is a very serious, stoic kind of dog. He has his moments of bulldog silliness with me and can absolutely be a typical clownish bulldog but only about 15% of the time 😆 He is my quiet and steady shadow, always near.

He is socially neutral, watchful and calmly observant with strange people in public. Dragon is not a suspicious dog, but I would call him “ready.” He is highly territorial and unwelcoming of strangers at home. And though he is safe for formal on leash introductions both at home and in public, accepting pets if I say so, he’s not your friend lol.

Dragon is not dog aggressive and is fairly neutral to strange dogs in public unless he has reason not to be. He has plenty of animal aggression and is an excellent critter and vermin hunter.

This boy is very biddable and absolutely loves to do things with me. He is naturally a very handler focused dog and is not easily distracted by other dogs or busy environments (tasty critters and helpers/decoys are another matter😂). He is hard to correction as is typical for a bulldog, and is extremely resilient to pressure from the handler. Dragon is the type of dog that tries harder and often comes up in drive with physical correction, responding best to personal pressure from me which can be challenging to balance at times. He has high food drive and is very easy to motivate, seeking the faux fight and interaction with equipment with me vs an obsession with the equipment itself.

In bitework he has good prey drive but his primary motivation is the fight and opposition with the helper. He has proven himself not to be equipment focused but is a safe dog to work. (Just don’t kick at him if you don’t want your leg bit 😂)

Dragon is my go everywhere dog, he is the dog that rides loose on road trips and that I take out with me at stops. He is an excellent house dog, being very calm and has zero destructive or problematic tendencies.

Dragons IS available at stud to approved bi***es for puppy back arrangements, my sole interest in him used by others is to continue the line and have offspring from him for myself

09/01/2024

Glory at almost 2.5 years 🥰 She is a good sized female at 78 #, she is tall with plenty of leg under her. Pictured next to Beefcake in the second picture gives a better idea of her height and type.

I’m going to do posts about each dog and their traits over the next couple weeks, I will start with this girl.

Glory is very intelligent, trainable, and biddable. She has some fire in her belly and loves to work. She pushes me to work and train, to do things. Glory has high prey drive and has so far shown to be clear headed and very forward in her work, with nice full grips and good object possession. She has nice quick strikes and puts her entire body into thrashing in true bulldog fashion.

She has nice large teeth and a scissors bite. She is a problem solver without being problematic, she generalizes behaviors very quickly (which is typical of my dogs). She is moderately hard, as expected of a bulldog, and handler sensitive just enough to buffer that hardness without being soft. She is highly resilient to stress from the handler and in general.

Socially, she is not friends with strange dogs (which is normal and expected behavior for bulldogs) but is unproblematic with the other dogs in the household (with proper training and management!) and she absolutely ADORES puppies. When it comes to humans, she is intensely bonded to her person(me) and is happy and welcoming of family she knows. She is not an outwardly social dog with strangers, she is fairly neutral and has no real interest in getting any affection from strangers. If you have food she will pretend for a moment to be your friend until you give her the food 😆

I am beyond excited to continue to work her and I have breeding plans for her next spring ❤️

08/29/2024

Updated pic of Mack, the singleton male from Vivid x Mucho 1.0 (fka Baby Brick) this boy is 22mo old now! He is much loved and his amazing owners take him on adventures in the wilderness

08/15/2024

Beefcake, from the Vivid x Mucho B2.0 litter is already 99 # at only 15mo 😅😳 This boy is one of the working picks, my keeper/co-own only boy. He is quite a juggernaut, and while I would absolutely love for him to have a one-on-one type working home, his placement requirements are very specific as he needs an experienced bulldog owner. Between him and the other two males that I had my eye on as working picks, he stayed due to his pushy and very possessive nature. He has strong territorial and guardian instincts, and is very bonded and attached to me as his handler/owner. He loves affection, follows me everywhere, and is biddable and willing, but he is also very hard to correction(as many good bulldogs are) and requires very firm boundaries and rules with strong handling. He is far too large and powerful of a dog to exist without pressure and control. Bulldogs thrive with balanced guidance and pressure.

This guy will eventually make his way down to Maximum Power Kennels and hopefully convince Kraig to let him snow plow some decoys 😆

08/03/2024

Another big handsome standard boy from the A litter - Cooper! 103 # of adventure loving bulldog. This lucky guy gets to explore our beautiful state with his owners ❤️

07/30/2024

This is Diesel from the A Litter(Vivid x Knuckles)! His owners report he just tipped the vet scale at 130 # 😳 I don’t breed for size, but Vivid produced large males in the A and B litters