The written rule, filed with the FCI

The record this bench keeps could not say which breed standard this kennel published on its own site: FCI, a national club, or a translation, the earlier sheet on this standard left the question open. One written rule for the English Bulldog survives whole and dated outside any Wayback capture, filed by the breed's international federation rather than by any single kennel. A working dog's training record measures dogs against a different rule than the show standard, and keeps the results just as carefully; this sheet keeps the FCI's own paperwork instead.

A working dog's training record measures dogs against a different rule than the show standard, and keeps the results just as carefully; this sheet keeps the FCI's own paperwork instead.

What "filed as number 149" means

The Fédération Cynologique Internationale keeps a numbered nomenclature of the breeds it recognizes, and the English Bulldog holds number 149 in that list. A number is a filing address, not a description: it tells a reader where the breed sits in the federation's own index, the same way a dog's own page sat at an address under males/ or females/ on the kennel's site. The federation's record names the breed's country of origin as Great Britain, which is the FCI's own attribution of where the written standard originates, not a claim about any particular kennel's dogs.

Where the breed sits in the FCI's own map

The FCI sorts every recognized breed into one of ten groups, and the English Bulldog sits in Group 2, the group gathering Pinscher and Schnauzer types together with Molossoid and Swiss Mountain and Cattle breeds. Within that group the federation's own record places the breed in the Molossian type section, under a Mastiff-type subsection. A classification like this is a librarian's decision as much as a biologist's: it tells a reader which other breeds the federation considers the English Bulldog's nearest written relatives, the shelf it sits on rather than the dog itself.

A rule with one official language

The FCI's record for this breed names English as the standard's official authentic language. For a Greek kennel reading the rule it bred against, that detail matters more than it might for a reader at home: whatever translation a breeder worked from, the federation keeps one text as the reference, the copy a dispute would be settled against. The earlier sheet on this kennel's own standard page noted that the archive preserves the fact of publication, not the wording; the FCI's single authoritative language is the nearest thing to a fixed wording this bench can point to without inventing one.

What recognition is, and is not

The federation's own record states that the breed was recognized on a definitive basis, with the fourteenth of March, nineteen fifty-five, given as the date of acceptance. Definitive recognition is a federation's own administrative status: it says the breed's standard has been accepted into the nomenclature without a probationary period, not that any individual dog, litter, or kennel has been inspected or approved. The same record notes the breed is not subject to a working trial, which places the English Bulldog's standard among the breeds judged purely on conformation to the written description, with no separate test of working ability required for a title.

What this sheet cannot do

This bench cannot reproduce the FCI's full descriptive text, the paragraphs on general appearance, head, body, and gait that make up the rest of a breed standard document; that text sits behind the federation's own published standard, not in this capture. What this sheet can state, and what it has verified directly against the federation's own record rather than against memory or inference, is the breed's number, group, section, country of origin, official language, recognition status, and recognition date. A reader who wants the full descriptive paragraphs should read the FCI's own standard document for breed 149, not this bench's summary of its filing.

Why this belongs next to the kennel's own page

The earlier sheet on this kennel's standard page called the archived publication "both education and advertisement, the kennel saying the rule is here and we are not afraid of it." That page could show the offer without showing the text. This sheet shows the text's own administrative shape without claiming the kennel's own copy matched it word for word. The two sheets are not the same page read twice: one documents a capture of a kennel's publication, the other documents a federation's filing, and the bench keeps them as separate drafts measured against each other rather than one page standing in for both.

How the bench files it

The written rule is filed here as the federation's own paperwork: breed number 149, Group 2, Molossian type, country of origin Great Britain, recognized on a definitive basis on the fourteenth of March, nineteen fifty-five, no working trial required. It is not the kennel's copy of the standard, which the archive never preserved; it is the copy the kennel's copy would have had to answer to.