A lot of what is here is coming from the other side, the buyer’s perspective, but it will also give you a good idea of what you need to do to be a reputable breeder. It requires a lot more than just matching sperm and egg. Yes, even pets need to come from health tested breeding stock and dogs with nice pedigrees. Even pets need to look as much like what the French Bulldog Standard calls for as possible. The problem starts with your breeder. Whoever you got your dogs from. They should have been willing to mentor you and help you throughout every step of Frenchie ownership, showing, health testing, breeding and then finally, helping you write a contract, health guarantee and even with placement of pups if need be. This is what a RESPONSIBLE, caring breeder does. The fact that they are not there to answer your questions tells me that you got them from someone who is likely NOT a reputable breeder and also means you will sell your puppies (hopefully not) in the same irresponsible manner. The breeders that just “take the money and run” are doing our breed no favors. This creates more back yard breeders like yourself who will unknowingly sell these pups and they may very well end up in puppy mills beyond your worst nightmare. Other than doing your homework FIRST, before you breed, you are running the risk of making life or death mistakes with your babies.

Please get educated. Get on the Yahoo Group, Friends-of-Frenchies. There are caring, kind people on there with many years of experience in the breed who will be wiling to help you.

The fact that you state your dogs were not tested or shown, reflects your desire to get the cart before the horse, so to speak. The deed is done now, so learn from your mistakes. There is a right and wrong way to do everything. Do your research and realize that the right way to do be a reputable, responsible Frenchie breeder is to get educated about the breed first, find dogs from healthy lines and buy from reputable breeders (FBDCA members - good place to start), show your dogs, get them finished, health test them, get them OFA certified and THEN make educated decisions on which dogs would be a good match for which bitches. A nice pedigree for breeding on a frenchie is having at least 50 champions in a 5 generation pedigree. This is the NORM for reputable breeders. Find a reputable breeder who will be willing to mentor you and go forward from there.

I am only speaking to you from experience. I did not have any help or mentor at first either. But because of my struggle and years of learning, I want to be able to help you and possibly keep some of your babies out of rescue. We have plenty of foster frenchies as it is.

Good luck and hope you can get on the right track at some point. You can do it… but it is a lot of work. Anything worth having is and there is nothing more important than your good name/reputation. So work on it and it will be worth it down the road.

Best wishes FBD Mama

Also make sure that you let any buyer know the health risks that Frenchies have– they often have skin allergies and horrible gas depending on what they eat. They snore loudly and can’t handle the heat. They cannot handle lots of exercise (like jogging). They’re probably one of the most troublesome breeds– but their beauty and personalities make up for their heath problems.

PS. I don’t believe that they’re AKC registered… unless you did it at petsmart or something….. queenie

You could go to and make yourself a free web site for your ***Kennel***

Then you could go to google and google French Bull dogs for sale… that will bring up some sites that you can advertise on and get an idea of pricing and such.

Don’t put prices down as you don’t want to scare off prospective buyers…

Good Luck
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