10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Getting a French Bulldog (A Generalized List)
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hi welcome back to my channel my name is
misty for those that are new here and
probably wondering what type of channel
is a good question I’m not entirely sure
yet but today I am going to be talking
about my French bulldogs normally I
don’t have them in the videos because as
you can see here okay it’s pretty
excited pretty easy and Nigel’s just my
big bully
whenever he wrote this excited he tends
to get excited and and they want to do
this it’s a nice wonderful stormy day
outside fall day today has been a
filming day as you can probably guess
from the title of this video this is the
10 things I wish I knew before I got my
French bulldogs I’ve had many dogs in my
life I’ve had labs I’ve had chow chow
boxers lots of boxers healers basically
I always grew up with animals tons and
tons of animals yeah I was without a dog
for quite a while which was really odd
for me because I feel like animals
really fill a space at least in my heart
that nothing else can and so I really
wanted another dog and I did so much
research on what type of dog I wanted
and I eventually assembled upon these
guys uh-huh and I thought they were so
adorable I mean you see French cheese
all over Instagram you see them just
about everywhere you’ll see a French
Bulldog doing their cute yodels doing
their silly antics and pretty much
everybody knows that once you get one
it’s kind like Pringles you know you
have one you gotta have another very
many people talk about the the real
negatives of owning a French Bulldog and
if you if you’ve had a bulldog before
like an English and American Bulldog you
may be familiar with some of these
traits because they’re they’re very
similar to to those breeds as well
because they’re all the Bulldog but
French cheese definitely have their own
set of challenges
help with them and so today that’s what
I’m going to be talking about
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when they are possibly the most a
flatulent breed on the face of this
earth
period they are so gassy they are a
non-stop stream of gas they they will
fart you out of your vehicle when your
every night I spend a couple hours
laying in bed with my French cheese
before they get kenneled and they just
seriously just lay down and it’s just
like between the two of them just a
constant stream of gas
Nigel’s tend to smell really bad Heroes
doesn’t really have much of a smell to
them most of the time it doesn’t matter
what food you feed them what special
diets you put them on it it does not
matter and I have met lots of other
French Bulldog owners that feel the
exact same way they are just the most
gassy breed I have ever ever seen or
heard of so just know that if you decide
to get one of these guys um your nose is
gonna be assaulted on a regular basis
they just they just fart the funniest
thing though is when they will like
frighten themselves with their fart so
it’s like they have this like like
really aggressive fart and they like get
startled and start looking around like
oh my goodness what was that it’s like
yeah it was you dummy
they shed a lot a lot a lot I did not
realize how much they shed because there
are short haired fruit so you’d think
okay not that big of a deal yeah they’re
gonna shed a little bit no I can have
hero or Nigel on my lap and just pet
them for a couple of moments and my
entire front is just covered in hair I
sweep my floors in my house every single
day otherwise it is like a sheet of just
short hair everywhere and of course I
have a light haired one and I have a
dark-haired one
so basically no matter what I wear I’m
like it just I did there’s hair
everywhere I now do not purchase black
anything at least black that will show a
hair
I don’t purchase it I don’t I just nope
sorry no my thing I it just it’s gonna
be they’re just gonna be hair on it 24/7
I they are worse than any dog I’ve ever
owned
they’re not lassi they they’re not a
loyal breed at all if they see somebody
else they want to be run screw you
that’s where they’re going so I did a
lot of skydiving on the weekends and
when I’m at the drop zone there’s like
13 of us that have trailers out there
and Nigel specifically he’ll see someone
like walking over their trailer and he’s
like oh I’m just um he’s just like I’m
gone that’s my person now and he’ll just
follow them try it along like okay work
I’m gonna go with you that’s fun anybody
that has a treat anybody that nope just
they’re not a loyal breed if you’re
expecting like a good old lab or golden
retriever that’s gonna be by your side
that’s your best friend
you don’t get a Frenchie there they’re
just not a loyal breed they don’t care
if you have treats if you have food yeah
they’ll hang out with you they’ll be
your best friend but as soon as somebody
else seems more interesting they’re gone
drooling and they’re messy eating so you
know is it here is a female
she’s a three year about three years old
Nigel’s a male and he is about a year
and a half old here is not so bad about
the drooly and messy eating as much but
nigel is nigel on a regular basis has
these big old like sticky stringy pieces
of saliva that are just filled with junk
like dirt and debris and food and it’s
so gross and it’s all the time you just
constantly he doesn’t have any right now
I don’t think but if he gets into
something and when they go to play with
a toy she wanna have their the noises
they make are so gross it’s just like
like just constantly it is so gross
that’s just kind of how they are they’re
extremely messy
they are extremely kind of gross when
they eat so that’s just something to be
aware of
Frenchie’s have a little dog syndrome
especially my boy here
Nigel it hero can’t put a capital B in
the word bitch Nigel is an asshat they
just like will flip a switch and just I
don’t even know how to explain it so now
you’re gonna be fine one second playing
with another dog something happens he
just kind of snaps and he just kind of
tries to attack and it’s just they’re a
bully breed they try to bully other dogs
if you’ve ever seen two French bulldogs
play it’s a very aggressive style of
playing it would almost be like oh those
dogs fighting but they’re not fighting
they’re playing and it’s just it’s so
bizarre because other dogs don’t play
like that
and so they seem like they’re trying to
attack the other dog when they’re not
but they are I definitely say they have
little dog syndrome but Nigel we’re
really working on it with him he tends
to dislike any dog that’s larger than
him it’s kind of funny because he will
try to start kind of a fight with them
but then he also gets scared at the same
time and starts shaking so it’s like he
knows he’s smaller than the other dog
and can probably get his ass kicked but
he still feels like he needs to prove
himself like a big man on campus so that
is something to be really aware of when
you do get French bulldogs they tend to
be they are a bully breed they tend to
try to bully other dogs they can bully
kid Hiro loves children
loves them sees a kid she left with
moldy Nigel doesn’t like kids at all and
from what I’ve seen other people I know
that have French bulldogs that’s more
typical where your friend she is not
gonna really care for kids they do try
to bully them around quite a bit
so that is something to keep in mind if
you’re going to get a French Bulldog and
something I kind of wish that people had
really let me know how kind of I don’t
wanna say bad they are but just how much
of a bully breed they are
Rome they really do have because it is
really apparent and really noticeable
and if you have a household that already
has dogs and it expect there to be spats
expect there to be some fighting expect
your little Frenchie to try to dominate
the rest of the pack
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they’re small they’re cute but there’s
still a bull terrier bull and Terrier
breed which means they’re stubborn and
what I mean stubborn
I mean stubborn they are I don’t want to
say extremely hard to train but they are
really hard to train think just are they
just they want to do it when they want
to do it they don’t want to do it then
they don’t want to do it and they both
of them no come very very well you say
come they’ll come except for when they
don’t want to if they see someone else
they want to go hang out more or they
don’t want to listen to you strict they
won’t listen to you they just they
aren’t an extremely extremely stubborn
breed
good luck housebreaking them both of
them took over a year to housebreak and
that’s not just my housebreaking
technique everyone else I know that has
a French Bulldog
good luck housebreaking your God it
takes over a year they just don’t want
to do it here oh I mainly had issues
with urinating Nigel for some reason it
was the pooping but it took over a year
for both of them I first did the puppy
pads hero refused to use my pets period
refused to use them Fleur was fine for
her Nigel Nigel learn how to use foam
pads and then he kind of used the puppy
pads as a crutch because he’d go outside
but then he would know that there’s a
puppy pad available for him inside we
would try like eliminating the puppy pad
but then he would poop pee on the floor
and then we’re like what’s better it’s
just ever going to end is he ever going
to learn how to go outside and
eventually he did eventually he got it I
taught both of my dogs
how to go potty on command we do a lot
of traveling so when I take the dogs out
like when we’re in a vehicle and we
stopped somewhere and I need them to go
the bathroom I want them to go to the
bathroom on command so I’m not waiting
for a half an hour for them to go to the
bathroom so that is something I taught
them but they are extremely hard to
housebreak
the vent that they have anxiety problems
this is not something that’s talked
about very often Nigel when we leave
Nigel alone he will eat couches
he gets bored he gets anxious Hiro is
actually on anti-anxiety medication
because the sound of the icemaker in the
fridge causes her extreme anxiety
outside right now
leaves if she wasn’t on her medication
that would cause her extreme anxiety
Joran kids outside that she can’t see
causes her extreme anxiety and so both
adult dogs have some sort of anxiety
issue at first I’m like did I raise my
dogs in a way that contributed to them
having anxiety issues and it no it
wasn’t I talked to my dad in specializes
and Frenchie’s and he’s like no this is
a very common thing frenchies just
having sia tea problems so just be aware
that they’re not a dog you can leave at
home for 10 12 hours a day but I’m
really blessed that I have somebody else
that we can work different schedules a
little bit so they’re left home alone
for maybe 2 hours per day but they’re
definitely not a breed that you can just
leave at home and they’re gonna be fine
because they’re not
everybody knows that French shoes have
health issues it’s just common knowledge
I don’t think it’s a common knowledge it
pretty much if you came up if you search
water reasons not to get a French
Bulldog the health issues one of the
first things that come up and yes they
do have health issues both of my dogs
have health issues not extreme health
issues but they tend to have issues of
their eyes they have a lot of issues
with their joints and their spine spine
is a really big one for Frenchie’s um
thankfully both neither my friend Chi’s
have spinal issues I was very particular
about the breeder I went to to make sure
that no one in that lineage had issues
with their spine or their eyes or their
joints to try to ensure that my dog
wasn’t going to have those issues either
so here is biggest issue is she has an
inverted vulva basically what that does
is it causes her to have bladder
infections what nigel has cysts all over
his face that we’ve got to get
surgically removed at some point we
weren’t going to but the one next to his
eye keeps growing bigger and we’re
afraid it’s gonna kind of seem to go
blind eventually if we don’t Nigel is
also allergic to grass what we have to
put a steroid on his stomach every
single day otherwise it breaks out into
a rash which eventually turns into a
scab which is extremely painful for him
so that’s something we have to worry
about and allergies allergies are so big
for French bulldogs
that is also not something that’s talked
about very heavily but according to my
vet again he specializes in French
bulldogs that’s almost all French cheese
have some sort of allergy issue and both
my dogs have allergy issues here it has
to get ear infections from them and
again Nigel’s allergic to grass and
that’s just something you’re gonna have
to deal with I use healthy paws as my
pet insurance I pay about $100 a month
it’s $100 deductible and then they cover
80% there is no way I’d have a French
Bulldog without some sort of pet
insurance but all the issues that I
talked about just now are things that
that insurance covers so what I have to
have surgery for both hero and Nigel in
the next couple years insurance is going
to cover all the 80% of that so
something that just we were
I wanted to leave it off on a high note
so like I said earlier French is like
Pringles once pop just can’t stop gotta
have more it’s true I don’t know very
many people they have one Frenchy you
want more than one because they’re
wonderful I want one in every color
and there’s a lot of colors Nigel’s a
Brendel but there’s also a tiger striped
which is very similar to him except
instead of being the brindle the colours
are more in a striped fashion a lot of
times they can look black at first
glance you have like hero with which is
I’ve gone with a black mask you can also
just have regular font
there’s sable with a blast black mask or
there’s just regular table
there’s also blue um however blue or
grey silver depending on what you call
it it’s a recessive gene and so people
will try to sell you a blue or silver
French Bulldog under the guise that it
is rare and yes it is rare because it’s
recessive but it’s a not a desirable
trait because those that are blue or
silver tend to have a lot more health
issues such as being blank or death
similar to an all-white Dalmatian er
all-white boxer they just have higher
risk event and so if you see a breeder
trying to say hey I’m gonna charge ten
twenty thousand dollars for this rare
blue Frenchy tell him to buzz off and
that’s not a in my opinion stainer the
green assault I don’t think that’s a
responsible breeder there’s a lot of
different types the only colour the
Frenchy absolutely cannot be as black
and white black and white as a Boston
trait if a friend choose black and white
most likely they have a Boston genes in
their lineage somewhere but they cannot
be black and white that’s the only color
combination that a Frenchy can
absolutely not be that’s just not Sunday
Frenchie’s
can have um so yeah you can’t just have
one gotta have multiple like I said I
would love to have one of every color if
I could but that’s not responsible of me
either two is more than enough they are
a hell of a lot to handle from being sex
smell baths they really are like having
a big dog cramped into a very small dog
body I hope this was informative and I
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