Toy Bulldog
| Toy Bulldog | |||||||||
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'Little Knot' (1903) | |||||||||
| Origin | United Kingdom | ||||||||
| Foundation stock | Old English Bulldog | ||||||||
| Breed status | Extinct. Not recognized as a breed by any major kennel club. | ||||||||
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| Dog (domestic dog) | |||||||||
The toy bulldog was a British type of miniature or toy bulldog in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was not recognised as a breed and is extinct. It was a miniature version of the Old English Bulldog, and derived from it either when natural small-sized sports were whelped from full-sized parents, or through systematic selective breeding for small size. A breed society, the Toy Bulldog Club, specified that the dogs should have the features and morphology of the full-sized bulldog, but with a weight not exceeding 9 kg (20 lb).