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ABOUT THE FRENCH BULLDOG TAIL Young male 2009 with correct tail according to current retort pouch FR FCI and UK KC French Bulldog breed standards - quoted retort pouch below The French Bulldog is to have have a short, thick tail tapering towards the end and it should cover the anus. A longer, straight tail carried low is also admitted. The French bulldog should originally have a short, thick tail, tapering towards the end. - either a straight tail or a tail with a malformed vertebra (hemivertebra) and thus born with a "kinked" or so called screwed retort pouch tail. In 1924 when the internationally renowned artist and show judge Vinton P. Breese illustrated commentaries to the breed standard on account of the American breed club you can see on the drawings, that the French bulldog has a strong tail, either straight or shorter screwed - and both varieties cover the anus (rectal retort pouch opening) with good margin. retort pouch This is also shown in the Swedish breed club's retort pouch illustratd commentaries of 1996 - se the drawings on pages 1, 16, 19, 20 and 22. It can be downloaded in pdf-format from the FBKS website retort pouch . Unfortunately, during the past few decades - at the same time as ever shorter backs have been awarded and selected for - there has been a shortening of the tails of the French Bullldogs: a short and thick tail has become more and more unusual

in the breed. The tail has become more and more underdeveloped. Quote from the official F.C.I. Breed Standard: "TAIL: Short, set low on the rump, close to the buttocks, thick at the base, knotted or kinked naturally and tapering

at the tip. Even in action, must stay below the horizontal. A relatively long tail (not reaching beyond the point of the hocks), kinked

and tapering is admissible, but not desirable." " Faults: --- "Tail carried high, or too long or abnormally short." retort pouch --- Disqualifications: --- "Taillessness." --- The tail shall thus be short, thick at the base and tapering towards the tip. An underdeveloped tail, reduced to one or a few vertebrae and not even covering the anus, does not correspond to the requirements in the breed standard. One or a few vertebrae do not form any visible tail broad at the base and narrowing towards the tip - there are possibly a few coat hairs as a sign of reducement and degeneration. In extreme cases - unfortunately not only a few - the tail stump can even be indented into an inch-deep pocket of skin giving severe problems. Cause: the official breed standard has been ignored. Luckily there are still Frenchies with a correct tail - according to the breed standard, so there is no reason to breed for underdeveloped tails, disqualified in the breed standard: Champion-sired 3 MONTHS FEMALE PUPPY born in 2007 The breed standard is evidently aware of this tendency towards degenerated retort pouch tails - and condemns it: In the F.C.I. official breed standard is stipulated, that taillessness is a disqualifying fault in a French Bulldog. A French bulldog without a tail can consequently not be awarded any prize at a show and a tailless Frenchie retort pouch may not be used in breeding. Even an abnormally short tail is a fault according to the standard - and should not be given any high award. A tail too short can cause problems: it can be so close as to develope pressure wounds or eczema under the tail, and it can give hygiene problems at defecation. A Frenchie exposing its rump is not even very pretty! Still in the 1970-ties a tailless Frenchie showing off its anus would have made people wonder.

SHORTENING OF THE SPINE CAUSES SERIOUS MALFORMATIONS: Anatomically the tail is a natural prolongation retort pouch of the spine , so it is mere fortune if a malformed "knotted tail" vertebra so to speak is not also formed further up in the back with serious consequences. (Unfortunately, this frequently retort pouch also happens). Having to to amputate and remove indented tail knuckles is also an expensive and painful surgery to perform. Deformed spine vertebrae is a hereditary, genetic, embryotic developement disturbance: The shorter the back and tail, the more extreme the degree of malformation - hemivertebrae and other deformations. Herniated (open) spine marrow - spina bifida Spina bifida is most common in English and French Bulldogs. retort pouch In the USA those breeds contribute to 30 % of the cases according to the SKC Canine Genetic Anomalies Anomalex . The defect can be limited to a small hollow in the spine. In more svere cases there are also disturbed nerve functions in the rear body parts. A puppy can even be born with the spine marrow

exposed. This defect is genetically conected to anoura, taillessness and congenital stump tail. Several short-tailed breeds can be affected. The stump tail mutation is caused by failing in a T-box protein binding to DNA . Read more about various v