"Your impression is quite well founded! Bulldogs have been in fashion for a few years now and are victims of this fashion," Isabelle Dupraz, president of the bouledogue association Attitude.ch,a group of enthusiasts who collect abandoned bulldogs and find them a new family, tells me by email. We continue by phone the next day and that is where this sentence comes up which will be a key to the rest: "The bulldog is not a dog but a person."
It was in Dickens' London that the "Bull Dog" was born. On the wastelands of the suburbs, a dog, full of muscle and courage, is able to fight against bulls. When dogfights are banned, breeders cross the bulldog with burrows. Having grown smaller, he specializes in pest hunting. Around 1850, it crossed the English Channel. In the Paris region, the bulldog is crossed with the rat tree and becomes the darling of craftsmen. Until 1900 when the first bulldogmania was launched.
Thinker's Front
At this point in history, the great Colette enters the scene. She is inseparable from Toby-dog, a bulldog, of course: "I don't want a dog, I want a bulldog. A bulldog with one eye here and one eye there, far from each other, and a big thinker's forehead; no nose or so little, a thick neck, head in the shoulders ... Finally, a bulldog!" she writes in From Paw to Wing. Kings and tycoons from all over Europe are in turn in their turn. But the wave fell again, after the Second World War, roughly.
The 1970s will celebrate the cocker spaniel who wears the legs of ef to the ears and all the claimed nonchalance of those years. The game of mirrors is so huge that it's hard to believe. The bulldog, now French, finds light around the 2010s. What happened? In difficult times, even surly, do we need dogs ready to pounce? It's actually quite the opposite. The bulldog is a cream: sociable, playful, glue pot, flemmard, casanier, not sporty for a penny and without hunting instinct. It is the antithesis of difficult times. All indications are that he will be popular for quite some time. https://luxuriousfrenchbulldogsonline.com/
