"Mr. Jake was an old southern gentlemen that farmed along with his sons and grandsons. He always kept a WEB in the truck with him as he rounded up the cows, took a hog in the pen, or play with the babies to keep them from harms way. If nothing else, the dogs kept valuable things from growing legs and walking off. His dog of choice was a big headed WEB. He always said, 'the bigger the head the more sense they had'. Well, after 60-70 years of breeding dogs, you think he might know a thing or two about bulldogs.

Carr's Gus  The top surviving Carr dog known today.  Hedden's Buddy Roe of Carr  deceased

"One old dog off of Mr. Jake's Hammer Head was Rad Max a Million or Max for short. Max lived with by buddy Ashley. You really had to know Ashley to appreciate him. His dad was a farmer / horse trader and Ashley grew up topping off rough stock trying to get them to the sale. 'That old man could ride the hair off a horse.'  With old Ashley's eye for horses, he kept telling me that we had something special. Nobody else had dogs like these. I'd call him a liar and tell him that everyone had dogs like these. He'd say, 'Only 'round here, them Yankees ain't got no bulldogs. You're sitting in the middle of the best bulldogs in the world.'  "   John Conner

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The Carr dogs were bred for the 'header' type more than the heeler type for nearly 80 years. They are the embodiment of and define the White English Proper. Gus' phenotype and genotype define the Carr WEB. He is what we are breeding to preserve. At this point, Gus is the top Carr WEB known. Gus' inherent guarding abilities are nearly un-obtainable in any bull breed today. A Carr dog can no more beat a pit dog in the pit than could a pit dog beat a Carr dog working on a farm. These are completely different working dogs. Yet, the ability of WEBs to kill APBTs that come after livestock is well known. Many have made the mistake to think a fighting dog is a fighting dog, this is no more true than putting boxing gloves on a Karate expert and asking him to box.  Boxing and Karate are both forms of fighting, yet involving completely different characteristic techniques and thought processes. This is what the Carr dogs were all about, an inherent, very specific working and guarding ability involving a unique thought process and fighting style. These dogs are and were the most serious bulldogs anywhere around. They did not threaten a potential threat, they acted upon the threat, and unless called off of the attack by it's master or even a family member of his master, including a child, the Carr dogs proceeded upon the threat with a resoluteness and intensity that is frightening to behold.  The agility, speed, and utter stealthy ness of the attack is comparable to the attack of a feline more than of any canine. Unless called off or told to release once the threat is caught, the threat is quickly killed, typically with little to no injury to the Carr dog. The Carr dogs are kill dogs when it comes to guarding and protection. Yet even moments after killing a threat, a child can wallow, ride, and pull all over the dog. The Carr dogs immediately turn off when the threat is eliminated. they do not stay excited or pumped up, ready for more action, looking for another fight. They simply return to their post and lay back down, being once again a child's play toy.  I can remember my daddy's old Carr dog Spike. I judge all dogs against him to this day; only Gus has come close. I remember late one afternoon three stray dogs came wandering onto our place. Three big dogs, two mutts and one German Shepard. Spike and all of his 60 pounds watched their approach.  When they finally realized he was there, they were in range and it was too late. They engaged in a gruesome battle that we were certain Spike would not survive. But after about 10 minutes and with Spike on his back, we realized that he was tearing their chests open from underneath. He gored all three dogs while on his back, quickly and efficiently killing all three of them. Spike got up, shook off, and limped back up the steps and laid down on the porch. He had some bites on his legs and ears, but that was it. I'll never forget that day nor will I ever forget Spike. As old man Ashley put it, "Nobody else had dogs like these, You're sitting in the middle of the best bulldogs in the world."  This remains a true statement for the remaining pure Carr dogs left. They are almost completely gone and we are attempting to preserve and to protect the purity of the old Carr blood, 'the best bulldogs in the world.' The numbers of 100% pure Carr dogs dwindles below 100 dogs; and that is an exceptionally optimistic figure. "Most all WEBs in this area trace back to Mr. Jake Carr."  John Conner   Most simply trace back to the Carr dogs, they rarely if ever are still found in a pure state. When those few people who are familiar with the pure Carr blood comes upon a WEB in these parts, they can tell you from the first sight of the dog if it is a pure Carr or if it carries the Carr blood at all. It is the consistency of the genotype and phenotype that has lasted for nearly 80 years that sets the Carr dogs so far apart. The line is so pure that the genotype and phenotype has been set and remains to this day even after almost 80 years. Even with the out-crossing to other WEB lines, the Carr blood dominates in the offspring, even after generations of line crosses. This is a very pure, very  dominant strain of genes we're talking about here. Genes so pure that decades upon decades of out crossing to other WEB blood and even to other breeds has failed to over-ride the genetic prepotency of the Carr blood. Mr. Jake Carr was no geneticist, he was a country farmer that knew how to breed bulldogs, 'the best bulldogs in the world.'  "Well, after 60-70 years of breeding dogs, you think he might know a thing or two about bulldogs."