Data

• The French Bulldog collapse, charted

  Kennel Club registrations fell from 54,074 in 2021 to 7,750 in 2025 — 85.7% in four years. Annual and quarterly, with the Pug and Bulldog for comparison.

  Source: The Royal Kennel Club

• Where flat-faced dog breeding is restricted

  England, the Netherlands and Norway, with the law quoted rather than paraphrased — including what the Norwegian Supreme Court actually held, which is not what most coverage says.

  Source: Legislation and court records, each statement marked for whether we checked it against the primary text

• Dog theft: why nobody knows the real number

  French Bulldogs are the most stolen breed and no one can say how many, because pet theft is not a crime category. What exists, what does not, and why we did not build the map.

  Source: Pet Theft Taskforce report and the police open data catalogue

• The most stolen dog breeds in the UK

  Ranked by year with the recorded counts, national totals back to 2016, and the thing almost never printed beside them: police forces answer these requests less every year, and corrected for that the reported fall becomes a rise.

  Source: Direct Line/Aviva FOI rounds, the Pet Theft Taskforce, and peer-reviewed work on the response rates

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