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Old 10-17-2010, 07:53 PM   #67
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Originally Posted by Britster View Post
This is true. I think it's terrible what they've done to the bulldog simply for aesthetics.

This was a bulldog in 1790.
File:Philip Reinagle - Bulldog.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This was 1889.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...27s_mascot.jpg
Looking more like today's Bulldog but a better figure and not such a smooshed face.

To todays bulldog...
File:Racibórz 2007 082.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Same with Pug's. Their faces were 'smooshed' simply because breeders wanted a more human-like expression.
What about the cocker spaniel with the small head? So small that there is no room for its brain?
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