bulldog eye care

question regarding french bulldog care?

We have a friend with an english bulldog, and have been told that part of their daily care includes (a) wiping their eye folds with a q-tip, and (b) wiping the dog’s butt post-poop.

Maybe. Depends on the dog and depends on your friend. Their dog might have issues that require this, or they’ve been told they have to and believe it. My neighbor just dogsat a Boston and was lamenting that it had to be “wiped” after pottying all the time. It was a senior dog. I’ve got a bullmastiff (bred originally from bulldogs) and she will get a bit of acne on her jowls if her face isn’t wiped because little bits of food and whatever she’s stuck her big face in get stuck in the little wrinkles on her face and yes, French Bulldogs have this as one known issue. Like others who answered, wiping a dog’s rear is not usually something that comes with the territory. Dogs are omnivores and need fiber too, so perhaps the diet of your friend’s dog could use some adjusting. If you feed a high quality protein based food and give healthy things (as my vet also recommends) like green beans and apples (no core) and sweet potato (steamed) then they might not have that problem. The real problem with some stockier, short spined dogs like bulldogs is that they can’t “reach around” for themselves, and then yup, you’ve got to help or suffer the consequences when they scoot across your carpet