Toy Bulldog
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Origin | England | ||||||||||||||||
Foundation stock | English Mastiff, French Bulldog, and Old English Bulldog | ||||||||||||||||
Breed status | Extinct. Not recognized as a breed by any major kennel club. | ||||||||||||||||
The toy bulldog is an extinct unrecognised breed of small bulldog that existed in England during the 18th and early 19th centuries. The same name is used for unrelated, but similar-appearing dogs, that are mostly modern crosses between bulldogs and pugs, which are also not a recognised dog breed. Original attemptsEarly dog breeders worked in two different directions, to decrease the weight to a desirable 20 pounds or so and create a new toy bulldog breed:
The breeding programs were dropped, and the line of dogs bred from these early attempts died out. Modern dogsNowadays, the term toy bulldog is occasionally used to describe a small variety of another cross also called a miniature bulldog. They are not an established breed, but rather a hybrid produced by crossbreeding bulldogs with pugs or the crossed offspring.[citation needed] References
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