>>45266777Mostly correct. When the practice of bullbaiting (which is what bulldogs were bred to do - fight bulls) fell out of favor with the public at large, bulldogs lost their job basically. So they transitioned to being more typical pets and were bred shorter and squater to be cuter and more like a lapdog for women.
Nowadays there are some breeders trying to correct some of the health issues caused by the lapdog breeding by breeding something closer to what the old bulldogs looked like physically (though with a more modern, even temperament).