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<\/a>Despite this long history, certain popular traits in pet dogs, such as flatter faces, are often viewed as a modern conceit. However, findings from the Roman empire suggest that flat-faced dogs resembling French Bulldogs were around over 2,000 years ago<\/a>. Wear and tear indicates the dogs were pampered pets, and possibly an attempt to have a dog similar to the Pekingese, which was owned by Chinese imperial families at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Snub-nosed dogs aren\u2019t found in existing Roman art, which makes these findings a little surprising. However, the Romans are credited as the world\u2019s first true dog breeders, having classes of dogs, as well as a keen understanding of physical and behavioral inheritance. Perhaps we should have expected these \u201cproto-pug\u201d findings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Resources<\/strong> People have been breeding dogs to accentuate desirable traits for thousands of years. And not just \u201cwork-related\u201d traits like herding, guarding, or pulling sleds, but also \u201ccute and companionable\u201d traits that make for better pets. Dogs have been around a looooong time. Despite this long history, certain popular traits in pet dogs, such as flatter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2605\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Skull of a brachycephalic dog unearthed in the ancient city of Tralleis, T\u00fcrkiye<\/a>
\u2605\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The French Bulldog has been named America\u2019s No.1 Most Popular Dog<\/a>Romans May Have Bred Frenchie (Like) Dogs Before It Was Cool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"