Medium-sized, athletically built bulldog with a broad head, muscular compact body, and short coat, designed for improved health and breathing compared to traditional bulldogs with smooth movement and endurance
Developed in Switzerland in the early 2000s by breeder Imelda Angehrn to create a healthier more athletic bulldog with fewer respiratory issues by crossing English Bulldogs with Olde English Bulldogges, provisionally recognized by FCI in 2022
Males typically weigh 23-30 kg and stand 42-47 cm at the shoulder; females 20-27 kg and 38-44 cm.
“Attentive, self-confident, friendly, neither aggressive nor shy”
Quoted from FCI standard n°369. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Breed reference from The Dog API.
Nobody has written this side yet. It is a judgement rather than data, so it waits for a person — not for a missing source.
Drawn from sources rather than written as an opinion — cited health research, the registry’s own standard, and peer-reviewed longevity. FCI breed standard. One breeder’s animals can differ from any of it, and an empty column means we hold nothing for that side rather than that there is nothing to say.
FCI standard · Continental Bulldog
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged permissible and undesirable.
the top hair short, close, flat, glossy, not wiry.
The undercoat short, close and of fine texture.
The absence of undercoat is permissible
Preferred, permissible, undesirable and disqualifying are FCI’s own words about the breed. They describe what the standard asks for — not an assessment of any individual dog, and not ours.
Base colour
Fawn (all shades from sand to red), brindle, black
Shortened from FCI standard n°369 — each label is the standard’s own wording with the verdict lifted into the tag beside it. Read the full clause at source.
What a judge marks the Continental Bulldog down for, and what puts one out of the ring, in the registry’s own words. This describes the breed standard — it is not a checklist for the animal in front of you, and a pet with a disqualifying fault is an unshowable dog rather than an unhealthy one.
Marked heavily against a specimen in the ring.
Puts an animal out of the ring altogether.
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Continental Bulldog in general; any individual animal can differ.
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Continental Bulldog on this platform yet. That is a gap in our records, not a clean bill of health — ask the breeder which hereditary conditions their lines are tested for, and ask to see the results for both parents, dated and from a named laboratory.
This is where Continental Bulldog owners’ own photographs will go, from the pet profiles they keep here. Nobody has added one to a public page yet.
A photograph in a pet profile stays private to its owner. We will not put one here unless they ask us to.
No Continental Bulldog breeder has a record on this platform yet, so there is nothing to list. That is a gap in our coverage, not a fact about the breed.
