<div>Courtney's Story 
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<div>I was born in 1974 in Aurora, Illinois — a regular kid who didn’t know yet that bulldogs would eventually take over my entire life, my home, my bank account, and every inch of my heart. I loved them early, long before I ever owned one. But in 2005, everything changed. That’s when Meatball and Tatertot came barreling into my world.
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<div>They arrived sick, fragile, and nothing like what I’d been promised. I found out they’d been imported from Russia by a Texas broker named epuppypro — a puppymill operation hiding behind cute photos and fake promises. Most people would’ve cried and moved on. I built a website.
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<div>I called it Bulldog Voice, and I started collecting stories from other victims. Fifty families came forward. Fifty. Eventually, a Texas state attorney picked up our case, sued the broker, and shut her down. We won a judgment — never saw a dime — but we did stop her from hurting more dogs. 
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<div>That was the moment I realized something important:
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<div>When bulldogs need help, I don’t back down. I get louder.
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<div>That’s how I accidentally became an influencer back in the MySpace days. Before “influencer” was even a word, I was just a bulldog mom with a mission and a whole lot of opinions. And from that online chaos came my first rescue dog: Chubba.
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<div>Now picture this: Chubba, Meat, and Tater… all in a tiny condo in Maryland. Three One human. Zero space. A whole lot of snoring. I knew I needed land — a place where my dogs could wiggle freely without knocking over furniture or my sanity. So I packed up my life and moved to North Carolina.
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<div>That move changed everything.
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<div>I built a pet product website and began to dream of land for bulls and saving them.  And then I created something that would become legendary: a bulldog Secret Santa that broke every rule of Secret Santa.
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<div>Dogs sending gifts to other dogs. People who knew each other — or didn’t — all becoming one big family.  That’s when we coined the name: Bullie Nation.
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<div>From that community came the next big leap. I decided to start a rescue in North Carolina, and our group named it Bullies 2 the Rescue. Adele Batts came up with the name because on Facebook we were always talking in our dogs’ voices like they were comic book heroes. 
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<div>Our first superhero?
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<div>Captain Gasalot.
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<div>Then came Major Big Love, modeled after my bulldog Howie. And just like that, the rescue had a personality — bold, funny, full of heart.
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<div>Then came the next chapter:
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<div>Carolina Pet Pantry.
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<div>A store, an adoption hub, a community center, and eventually home to The Swagger Salon, our grooming operation where we groom puppy mill dogs for free, the community to come wash their dogs and a full service grooming center building funds for the rescue and to support our management staff.
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<div>But the dream — the real dream — took ten years to build.
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<div>A sanctuary.
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<div>A safe place.
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<div>A home for the broken, the old, the medically complicated, the ones who needed more than a foster home could give.
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<div>And finally, after a decade of hustling, fundraising, crying, laughing, and refusing to quit, it happened.
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<div>Meat and Tater’s Wiggle Ranch was born.
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<div>Six acres.
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<div>Room to roam.
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<div>Climate‑controlled buildings.
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<div>A medical barn on the way.
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<div>A place where bulldogs can heal, decompress, and wiggle their way back to life.
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<div>Named after the two dogs who started it all — the ones who were sick, exploited, and used by a broker… but who became the spark for a movement.
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<div>Now the mission is bigger than ever:
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<div>Rescue 400 bulldogs in 2026.
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<div>Back to pre‑pandemic numbers.
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<div>Back to proving that community, compassion, and a little bulldog stubbornness can change the world.
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<div>And if anyone doubts we can do it, well… they’ve clearly never met a bulldog. Or me.
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A Mission to Rescue 400 bulldogs in 2026

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