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After I read Mr. Jenkins book, I
wrote him a letter talking about bulldogs,
and
telling him of our history and dogs. We exchanged many
letters after that,
before e-mail made it a lot easier
to keep in touch! Thank you Robert for your
support!!
A message from Robert Jenkins
concerning
Sharon Nunley and the NBA:
I first heard of
Sharon Nunley and her bulldogs in the months
after I wrote the book with Ken Mollett about the
bulldog
She wrote to me
and sent some pictures of her dogs, and told me
all about the duties and work expected of them.
I was impressed.
It was after
the book, so she couldn’t get a mention in it,
but I carried her letter
and the pictures all
over the world, and for a year I meant to write
back.
I was traveling a lot at the time, and
looking at bull breeds all over the place.
When I got back
to England I looked for her web-site, half
expecting there
to be no mention of the dogs.
But there they were, and how!
So I wrote and
we got to talking through email and letters and
I was humbled by her love for the bulldog, and
impressed by
what was going on in her part of
the world.
"I have to say
that the bulldog belongs to people like Sharon
Nunley."
It
is people like her that
made them,
and keep on making
them.
And when she said she
was starting a club, and I figured I
couldn’t
talk her out of it, I was only too pleased to
offer
any help I could give.
Running a club like
this was always going to be tough.
Say the word
bulldog and you make an enemy.
Someone gets
upset. But in the end you know its true...
you
can measure how right you are by how many people
you’ve never met get angry at you!!! As it says
in the Bible,
“Woe to you, when all men speak
well of you!”
So don’t just browse
the NBA. Join it.
Be a friend to those with the
courage to make it happen.
Be like the Bulldog,
and be a part of the future.
And when you hear
people say things against
our breed and their
masters, tell them how the
dog was made, and
tell them of the ghosts of the
dogs and their masters who walk the English
speaking world, and tell them we are not done
yet.
Then smile and
walk away. We can do that, because
we know the
truth, and we know that deep down inside them,
those who criticize us know it too.