Kennel Club registered - Britishbullz Fat JackLast year, the UK Kennel Club registered over 60,000 Bulldog, French Bulldog and Pug puppies  and fewer than five per cent of these puppies were born to parents whose breathing had been tested before they were bred. This despite respiratory issues being their number one health issue. Today, Bulldogs, Frenchies...

(Click to enlarge)Eleven years ago, I wrote a post featuring the Neapolitan Mastiffs at Crufts 2011. It highlighted the dogs in the ring that year - so horrendous that I headlined it "A Parade of Mutants". The dog top-left above won Best of Breed that year - just heartbreaking. And the dog on the right won Best of Breed at Crufts today - Tommaso Goffredo's...

Last month, the above GSD bitch won Best of Breed at the delayed 2020 French Championship in Dijon, France. Am sure she's a lovely dog but, oh boy, that backend 👀  Perhaps it's just a bad photograph? Here's the link to the same dog being put through her paces in a working test in August this year - shocking for the the degree of disability that is...

Personally, I think the BBC should have been brave and gone with the original title for this programme - which was: "Will My Puppies Make Me Rich?" When the programme was announced last November (see here), the dog world lost its shit. The two young women who secured the commission as part of a pitching competition were bombarded with abuse online....

You're looking at a CT scan of a Chihuahua featured in a newly published study from researchers at the Universities of Helsinki and Surrey. The red circles mark where there are holes in the skull exposing the brain underneath and it raises big and urgent questions about the breeding of the world's smallest dog.  According to a pre-print of a linked...

I was so sad to hear of the passing of cynologist/writer/canine historian Colonel David Hancock MBE last weekend. I met him at his home in Oxfordshire in early 2008 where we interviewed him for Pedigree Dogs Exposed.  I remember climbing up the stairs to his office which was lined floor to ceiling with dog books, many very rare, and feeling acute library-envy....