We used to have a Boston Terrier at training, and it was a most handsome dog. The owner had gone to great lengths and expense to get a healthily bred one - he had a snout. I hope one can also source well bred French Bulldogs too otherwise what hope is there?
Brachycephalic dogs have been bred to have relatively short muzzles and noses and, because of this, the throat and breathing passages in these dogs are frequently undersized or flattened
Thanks, medically I understand it now. It makes me feel ill, if this was happening in agriculture ...
Oh no, what a terrible thing to have happened! Poor little dog indeed... What a horrible death, on his own too...
@selina27 It is awful that dogs are being bred with a shorter muzzle because it's what people want unfortunately you have exactly the same happening in the cat world as well.
Frenchies are extremely popular here, and the BYB market is huge...they are very expensive dogs. OH expressed some interest in them and it's a hard no from me. Very sad story...I have read too many
This is so tragic and all our fault that the dogs should be bred like that, just because humans like baby looking faces. No thought for the dogs welfare and so many people have jumped on the bandwagon and breed indiscriminately for the sake of money.
Oh dear, poor little dog, and poor owners too, what an awful thing to come home and discover. I've never seen a Frenchie "in the wild" in Wellington, only at the National Dog Show that I attended in 2015. None of them seemed obscenely flat-faced, but I admit that I wasn't looking at them critically. If you're looking at buying one here, they start at NZD4000 (UK2200), which is more than what most Kiwis are willing to pay for a dog. My cousin and her wife have a Puggle - which isn't my idea of cute - but is a good way of getting the personality of a Pug but with the much healthier snout and body shape of a Beagle.
Pleased to report that my step sons French Bulldog is having an operation on his nose . I say pleased , not pleased really as it should never be necessary to perform surgery on such a young dog because of man made problems , but at least it will enable him to breathe more easily . I think that the tragedy of the little dog dying has brought it home to them what an awful future these poor dogs might have , too late now of course , but my heart aches for these poor souls x
... unless of course you end up with the personality and training issues of a beagle, coupled with the snout and body of a pug.
They will notice he's a different dog after that he will be more energetic. Glad they are getting it done but sad they have to
