Calamity the dog can perform incredible tricks – but her owner Amanda Fuller had to teach them all through touch because her pet can’t hear or see.Amanda said: ‘Calamity has been learning tricks since birth and we work on new ones all the time.

“We tend to say: ‘Oh, it’s a French bulldog – it’s normal for them to breathe like that,’” Opperman says. Some animals with BOAS find ways to prop their mouths open to survive the night, using furniture or toys as wedges Before Sidney’s surgery, Frankie, the French bulldog, was in theatre.