I tell you what, Nibble- you won't believe it but there is in fact an EXTREMELY helpful website out there for lovers of French Bulldogs.
Their Contact Us page looks like the IDEAL place to email them with many, many questions you may have about these fine animals, or in fact any other burning world issue that springs to mind. Here is the link
http://www.worldoffrenchies.com/contact-us/
They look like the right folks, how did you hear of them?
My cousin just got a Cockapoo, and very cute it is too!
Getting a new dog in March. Any recommendations? Needs to be good around livestock. We've had a couple of French bulldogs but tbh they were a bit of a pain so we had them put down.
Not sure what you mean by, "Needs to be good around livestock" - if you mean working with livestock then a Border Collie as suggested by OzMike is a good bet.
If however you mean dogs that will 'accept' livestock without chasing or worrying them then your choice is very wide. We decided against going for pedigree dogs after having two Old English Sheepdogs, both of which had medical prolems due to the constant in-breeding.
We have now got two Border Collie/Labrador/Lurcher crosses - perfect around horses/cattle and sheep but not so keen on doing a lot of 'work'
Apologies, was a spoof thread towards a spammer. I am in actual fact moving to my smallholding in Cornwall in March and will be getting a couple of dogs so your advice wasn't wasted. A farmer neighbour will help me source a couple of gooduns. Cheers though .
All French bulldogs will do is hump your jambe gauche and leave steaming piles of merde all over the tapis.