We are Hans, Cinderella, Jordi, Brody and Micah Snijders and live just under the smoke of Utrecht in a small town called Lopik in the Netherlands.
Our bullmastiffs live and grow up in our house and are very social, which the pictures on the site will show.

Why bullmastiffs ?

At the end of 1995 we moved from Spijkenisse to Lopik and we had two dogs at that time, a K9 from the Dutch Airforce named Frits and a briard Falco. On newyearsday of 1996 we discoverd that Frits had a swelling under his eye and he was diagnosed with cancer and we had to let him go within two weeks. Frits lived to be thirteen years old. While Frits was being treated for his cancer, Falco somehow misstepped in the kitchen and was paralyzed in his legs. Whe suspect that a bone fragment had entered his spinal marrow. Unfortunately Falco only lived to be two years old.

After nearly a year without dogs it started itching again. We started buying dogmagazines, books about dogbreeds and going to shows again. This so that we could see as many breeds as possible that interested us. Reading about the bullmastiff made our interest in them only bigger. After seeing them for real and speaking to some breeders at the shows in Utrecht and Amsterdam we were sold. It was going to be a bullmastiff.

We requested a breederslist from the NMMC and it seemed that there was a litter born at the Zypkaai kennel in Vianen. On a afternoon we went to go and take a look, the litter was just five weeks old and we were sold. After having a puppy in your hands you never want to let it go again. We made a choice and on januari 3rd 1997 we picked up Bono. Since then we are convinced that there is no better dog than a bullmastiff.

After weighing up the pro's and cons we decided that we would like to add a bully to our home, only this time we wanted to breed with her. Again we requested the actual litter info from the breedclub, but this time we studied it a little better and came to the conclusion that the lines in the Netherlands are quite small. We then decided to go for a bullmastiff who's lines were not that populair in the Netherlands.

Through internet we came in contact with different breeders from all kinds of countries. In the end we came in contact with Cath and Alan Ambler from Cathaljays Bullmastiffs in England. From the various e-mails and phone conversations we had, we were convinced that we were dealing with a very serious breeder, who only had the best interest in the breed. At that time she had a litter with excellent Bunsoro lines, and she was prepared to export a puppy to us in the Netherlands. After getting all the paperwork done we picked a date and on the 12th of may in 2000 we crossed the channel to go and pick up Cathaljay's Moonbeam, our Lola.

In 2003 we welcomed another bullylady to our home, Black Velvet v.d. Bullma Hoven. The Lenders family had decided to stop breeding and we were fortunate enough to be able to take Brenna, a beautiful brindle girl, over from them.
It was love at first sight, wat a great bitch this was. She had the best character you could wish for and adapted perfectly within our household.

In the summer of 2003 we welcomed our first New Sensation's litter in the Netherlands. Our Lola gave birth to two red boys. The father was Bullspirit's Heavy Chevy owned by the Family Hoek.

The love of the breed has only grown with the years. The bully's have been in our house for more than ten years now and the saying "once a bully allways a bully" is a definite for us. Our dogs live in our house and grow up with our kids as part of our family. We do not believe in kennels outside or a rotation system of letting the dogs in the house.
For years we have been using the following slogan: