What is a fad color and why does it matter?
A fad color is a coat color disqualified by the FBDCA/AKC French Bulldog Breed Standard. These colors are also often referred to as rare colors. Those who intentionally breed disqualification colors in French Bulldogs are motivated only to make money. No responsible breeder would breed against their 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.
These 'rare' colors carry health problems such as juvenile blindness which leads to blindness and Follicular dysplasia- a gradual hair loss starting at a young age causing dry scaly skin susceptible to bacterial infections. There is no cure and conditions usually become increasingly worse. Blues should NOT be registered as Fawn on AKC registration or under any other color code. Doing so is incredibly unethical and a disservice to the breed.
Please help maintain the integrity of the French Bulldog breed by choosing only Frenchies with coat colors as allowed by the AKC breed standard. Seeking and buying dogs with disqualifying coat colors only hurts the breed, even if you have no intentions of breeding an off-color Frenchie. Demand drives the market and if there is no demand for blue, chocolate, black & tan, or other unacceptably colored French Bulldogs, there will be no reason to breed these colors. Don’t financially reward people deliberately breeding Frenchies not accepted by 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.
These 'rare' colors carry health problems such as juvenile blindness which leads to blindness and Follicular dysplasia- a gradual hair loss starting at a young age causing dry scaly skin susceptible to bacterial infections. There is no cure and conditions usually become increasingly worse. Blues should NOT be registered as Fawn on AKC registration or under any other color code. Doing so is incredibly unethical and a disservice to the breed.
Please help maintain the integrity of the French Bulldog breed by choosing only Frenchies with coat colors as allowed by the AKC breed standard. Seeking and buying dogs with disqualifying coat colors only hurts the breed, even if you have no intentions of breeding an off-color Frenchie. Demand drives the market and if there is no demand for blue, chocolate, black & tan, or other unacceptably colored French Bulldogs, there will be no reason to breed these colors. Don’t financially reward people deliberately breeding Frenchies not accepted by our breed standard.
