No responsible breeder would breed against their breed standard.

ECFBC is bringing up the issue of fad colors in order to:

• educate and protect the dog-buying public,
• preserve our breed standard,
• protect the work of the many outstanding and responsible breeders who adhere to our breed standard.

A reputable and responsible Frenchie breeder should only breed dogs conforming to his or her country’s parent club French Bulldog Breed Standard.

Those irresponsible breeders who breed for and advertise rare colors are intentionally spreading unacceptable color genes through the gene pool and causing problems for reputable breeders whose main concern is to produce quality puppies that conform to our Standard.

These irresponsible breeders producing fad colors are motivated by greed, since by calling their disqualified colors rare they are able to sell them for very inflated prices.

Merle French Bulldogs and Mexican Frenchies – Just Say No!       

Say No To Misery MerlesThis website is dedicated to asking people who care about French Bulldogs to say NO to Merle French Bulldogs – also known as Mexican Frenchies, Merle Mexican Frenchies, Mexican French Bulldogs, Miniature Merle French Bulldogs and French Merle Bulldog. Please do not buy Merle French Bulldogs for sale, or purchase French Bulldogs of any other colors from breeders of Merle French Bulldogs or Mexican Frenchies. Merles mean misery for too many of the French Bulldogs produced.

The recent trend of breeding Merle French Bulldogs is deeply disturbing to anyone who cares about the breed. While French Bulldogs can come in many colors and patterns, the gene for Merle patterning is the one that is not found in purebred French Bulldogs. Breeders produce so called Merle “French Bulldogs” by cross breeding a French Bulldog to a dog of a breed that carries Merle – likely Chihuahuas. When  they result from breeding Chihuahuas with French Bulldogs, they are marketed as Mexican Frenchies, Mexican French Bulldogs or even miniature French Bulldogs.

The resulting offspring are screened and selected for the merle dogs that also look most like purebred French Bulldogs. These dogs are then crossed together, and the puppies are then sold to the unsuspecting public as “purebred” Merle French Bulldogs or “purebred” Mexican Frenchies. These cross bred dogs carry a very high price tag – much higher than the best bred French Bulldog from health tested, well bred litters.

Worse than the scam being perpetrated on the public is the fact that Merles equal misery in far too many cases.

Backyard breeders and puppy mills eager to produce high priced exotic merles won’t hesitate to breed two merles together – a process referred to as “merle to merle breeding”. Crossing merle to merle has serious, well documented health risks – deafness, blindness, Microphthalmia (small, deformed or even missing eyes) and even a condition referred to as “lethal white” which can result in abnormally high deaths in utero.

Severely affected MM (homozygous merle) individuals are often nearly all white, deaf, sterile, and blind or affected by various visual abnormalities.

- Dr. George M. Strain, leading expert on Canine Deafness, LSU

Ask yourself – what kind of person would risk this suffering in tiny French Bulldog puppies, just to get a higher price on the pups who do survive? What do you imagine happens to all of the abnormal, deaf, blind or disfigured puppies that are a by product of producing a handful of Merle French Bulldog puppies healthy enough to offered for sale?


            JUST SAY NO!