Sturdy, thick-set, uncompromising in appearance, the Bulldog is supposed to represent our national characteristics. Certainly he has many admirable qualities, among which are to be numbered great devotion to his master or mistress, and an unfailing kindliness of temper unless insult be offered to those he loves. He is an excellent house dog, his worst habits being a tendency to snort and snore. He shares with the Fox Terrier the honour of being the most popular show dog of the day, and several have been sold of recent years for the goodly sum of £1000. In choosing one care has to be exercised in seeing that one is not buying a deformity that cannot walk a mile. A Bulldog can be active, and he can also be the reverse. Of this you may be sure, he is not so ugly as he is credited with being.

His Work

For many years past humanitarian feelings have decreed that the Bulldog shall be among the ranks of the unemployed. His occupation has gone, with cock-fighting and other diversions of a strenuous age.

His Points

Skull very large, broad, and square, flat on the top, with a deep stop between the eyes; the nose large and black, and set so far back as to come almost between the eyes; the jaw broad and square, the lower projecting beyond the upper and turning well up; the flews thick and deep; the head and face well wrinkled; eyes wide apart; ears high on the head, small and thin; back and neck short and powerful; chest very wide, with fore-legs short, heavy in bone, and set wide apart; hind-legs longer than the front, giving an arched appearance to the loins; tail set on low, and pointing downwards.