The unfortunate life of a pug

I was just talking to someone about Persian cats and similar issues last night.
Horrible.

Poor puggos...

Bulldogs, the whole bunch. Many breeds have a host of problems due to inbreeding as well.
I always wondered if any of these breeds are in constant pain, we have no way of knowing (then again, how many people care?). Tumbler pigeons - birds with vertigo, my gosh.

Most bulldog breeds are actually fine when it comes to breathing. They don't have collapsed sinuses like pugs do. Bulldogs were bread to be how they are for hunting purposes, so that they could latch on to the side of a game animal and still breath, without their nose being smothered by the animal's flank.

Their faces are nevertheless distorted to the point that comfort is in question.
Due to a who;e host of problems, general life expectancy is a mere 8 years.
They were originally bred to fight bulls in pits. However, pictures of the way they used to look over a century ago show a different animal. They were built more like it pit bulls today, not the compact malformed cumbersome creatures we see now.

That's true. My experience is more with European breeds that haven't changed much since the thirteenth century.