Can you or someone else please tell me the purpose of those big floppy jowls? I always wondered what the benefit of those were. I know most of the odder features of certain breeds have a purpose related to the job they’re bred for.
Like mudflaps deflecting water spray, those jowls are for when the dog kills and eats his keeper, the blood doesn’t get splattered everywhere.
Maybe floppy jowls are just a byproduct of breeding for other traits. In a dog bred for fighting /bear baiting/etc., they probably want the dog to have a thick coat and skin “loose enough to turn around in” like a badger’s, so the dog can twist around and bite an opponent that might get ahold of them by the neck. That desirable trait of loose skin around he neck and shoulders probably means that like it or not, there will be loose skin about the jowls as well.
I guess if the jowl is floppy enough the dog can still bite even if another animal gets ahold of his lip. One the negative side you get drool and a dog vulnerable to infection if you don’t keep those skin folds clean.