I’ve been digging around looking at the breed standards for the French Bulldog both in the UK and the USA. In the UK it is The Kennel Club which sets the breed standard and, in the USA, the American Kennel Club also sets a breed standard. Both have got themselves into a mess with regard …
French Bulldog breed standard in America and the UK is a mess and abused by breeders Read More »
NEWS AND COMMENT: The labrador retriever is no longer America’s best friend because the French bulldog is now the most popular dog breed surpassing the labrador retriever which held the record for 31 years. And it seems to me that Americans and the Brits in the UK are bewitched by the appearance of this small …
It is difficult for humans to imagine the olfactory experiences of a domestic dog as they walk around the park with their human caregiver. We are as distanced from imagining what that feels like as the dog is in imagining what it’s like for a human to do calculus! They are different worlds. And some …
NEWS AND COMMENT: under pressure from PETA, Moonpig has withdrawn cards featuring pugs and French Bulldog from sale. In truth, there has been pressure for a long time against manufacturers exploiting the popular but unhealthy faces of pugs and French bulldogs and other similar dog breeds with brachycephalic heads and abnormally flat faces. It is …
PETA successfully compels Moonpig to pull pug cards from sale Read More »
This is an amusing photo but I guess also instructive to someone like me. Firstly, it tells us how bloody cold it is in Yakutsk which is the capital city of Sakha, Russia, located about 450 km south of the Arctic Circle. It is in East Siberia. Fueled by the mining industry, Yakutsk has become …
-31F/-35C in Yakutsk, Russia. Heat pipe warms Siberian husky Read More »
