From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is The Story on Saturday.
I'm Manveen Rana.
In Britain, we've developed a real passion for boutique pets.
We love dachshunds with their tiny little legs,
or the 'rat on a rope' as a friend of mine would call it.
Dalmatians with their perfect spots, Frenchies with their squashed snouts.
But these features aren't natural.
They're the product of selective breeding.
And this has real health risks, which can dramatically lower their life expectancy.
Shocked?
I certainly was.
Thankfully, Matt Rudd, a contributing editor to The Sunday Times, has been looking into it.
We talk about Frankie for half an hour before I meet her, because forewarned is forearmed.
Claire Formoy, the senior clinician who operated on her six days ago,
begins by explaining how this five-year-old French bulldog
has found herself at the Finsbury Park Animal Hospital in North London.
She came into the care of the RSPCA a year ago as a case,
which means she was either neglected or abused by her previous owner.
Her serious health issues, though, are related entirely to her breeding,
rather than the difficult life she went on to live.