The Buldogue Campeiro is a descendant of the old Bulldog of Great Britain,
brought to Rio Grande Do Sul and the Santa Catarina by the European Immigrants.
The Campeiro Bulldog was used for controlling bulls, and the breed were especially used when cattle, but also pigs,
were to be led from the fields and to the slaughterhouse. To this work there were always used five Bulldogs or more.
In the 1970's, when Mr. Ralf Schein Bender "discovered" the breed,
the Campeiro Bulldog were still is use, doing the bull-work they were bred for.
At left a picture from the Amaral family, San Francisco de Paula, from the beginning of the 1900's.
Picture contribution to Site Oficial do Buldogue Campeiro.
by Cristian Santana, Porto Alegre.
At right a picture from the 1950's from San Francisco de Paula,
which is showing a Campeiro Bulldog and
Mr. Dirceu and his wife Ruth.
In 1978 Mr. Ralf Schein Bender started his dedicated work to preserve the Buldogue Campeiro, and started a search for finding
true specimens in Rio Grande Do Sul and the neighbouring Santa Catarina. The breed had become rare, and the task proved
difficult, but Mr. Ralf Schein Bender succeeded finding some pure Campeiro Bulldogs.
In his search Mr. Bender talked to many people that had first hand knowledge about the Bulldog, and he were told many stories
from old people that still remembered the Buldogue Campeiro.
Campeiro Bulldog in the 1970's.
After collecting the few true remaining Campeiro Bulldogs that existed, Mr. Bender saw the neccessarity to introduce the
blood of the modern English Bulldog, in the purpose to save the breed, to recoup the ideal features of the Campeiro. In this work
Mr. Bender always choosed for further breeding the specimens that had most of the characteristics from the Campeiro.
Now, after nearly 25 years of work to preserve the breed for the future, the Buldogue Campeiro have been nationally recognized
by the CBKC (Confederação Brasileira de Cinofilia). The next step would be International recognizion by FCI.
