Vets are calling for urgent change to English bulldog breeding, as a new study suggests that the dog’s signature traits are causing the breed to be significantly less healthy than other breeds.
“These findings suggest that the overall health of the English Bulldog is much lower than that of other dogs,” said study author Dan O’Neill in a media release. The biggest concern for O’Neil is that many of the health problems English bulldogs, which are also known as British bulldogs, suffer from “are directly linked to the extreme structure of their bodies that has been selectively bred for.”…