FrogDog Blog - Notes from a French Bulldog Breeder FrogDog Blog - Notes from a French Bulldog Breeder FrogDog Blog is written by Carol Gravestock, who has been addicted to French Bulldogs since she first saw a rather horrid photo of three leashed and huffing European bred Frenchies. She's been breeding under the prefix 'Bullmarket' since 1990, and ha Articles
The High Price of French Bulldogs - in 1909
2007-09-06 18:21:00 Note: This is a first in my re-introduction of the ‘Historical French ies’ series I did for the French Bullytin in the 1990’s. We often hear complaints about how outrageously expensive French Bulldog s are. “$2,500 for a dog!” people cry. “That’s insane - who would pay a price like that?”. Well, plus ça change, plus c’est la même ... More About: Price , High , Bulldogs
Three Weeks Old - Meet Our Little Girl
2007-09-05 19:25:00 It’s a week today since we lost our little boy, and three weeks yesterday since the pups were born. I’ve been rather reluctant to blog about the remaining pup since then, for a few reasons. I’ve been afraid that bonding too tightly with her, as I did with her brother, would be unhealthy. I was afraid, ... More About: Girl , Meet , Little Girl , Delilah , Litt
And.. BEST. EVER. VICK. CASE. VIDEO.
2007-09-01 14:37:00 Watch it, and then ’nuff said. We wuvvvvv John Stewart. A sarcastic Jewish liberal Pit Bull owner. Swoon. More About: Video , Case , Vick
American Bulldogs Seized in Houston from ?Torture Chamber?
2007-09-01 12:31:00 It just doesn’t seem to stop, does it? On Thursday, Houston SPCA officials pulled over 80 American Bulldog s out a kennel that one official described as a ‘torture chamber’. Over 30 of the animals were already dead by the time they arrived. 45 other sick and starving dogs, and a handful of cats, were ... More About: Torture , Cham
Thank You
2007-08-31 18:37:00 Thank you all for being so kind. Practicality tells a breeder to never get too attached to a newborn puppy, since there are so many things that can go wrong. Reality is another matter altogether. Staying up nights and bottle feeding a puppy creates a bond you can’t ignore. The first time he eagerly crawls over and ... More About: Hank
Vick?s Dogs (Victims?) Get Chance at Re-Homing
2007-08-29 17:23:00 In a move that thwarts the repeated outcries of both PETA and the HSUS for the immediate euthanization of the Vick case Pit Bulls, the USDA has agreed to let the ASPCA and BAD RAP (Bay Area Doglovers Responsible About Pit Bulls) evaluate Vick’s dogs to see if any are able to be placed or ... More About: Dogs , Chance , Ming , Victims
Puppy Updates, and More News on the Maine Puppy Mill
2007-08-29 06:14:00 First off, let me get this out of the way, because writing it does not make me happy - the little boy is not doing very well. He hasn’t gained any weight in 48 hours, and he is having a hard time nursing from a bottle. I am now tube feeding him, every two hours, ... More About: News , Updates , Puppy , Sailor , Maine
200 Dogs, Including French Bulldogs, Seized from Puppy Mill in Maine
2007-08-27 10:53:00 From Itchmo: http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.p hp?id=129268&ac=PHnws http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?st oryid=69286 Police authorities, the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland and the Animal Welfare Society, seized more than 200 dogs from a dog kennel in Buxton, Maine .”This is the largest seizure ever in Maine,” said Susan Britt, director of operations at the Animal Refuge League in Westbrook. The owners of the J’aime kennel, John and ... More About: Dogs , French , Puppy , Bulldog
Sunday Night Puppy Blogging
2007-08-26 06:12:00 The boy is doing better - he’s over a pound now, and his sister is almost a pound and a half. He seems to do well so long as I bottle feed him every other feeding. In between, he nurses from mom and tans his tummy under the heat lamp. Life is, apparently, good. After I’m ... More About: Blogging , Night , Sunday , Puppy
Bottle Feeding the Puppy Boy
2007-08-24 22:48:00 Over the last few days, I’ve been concerned with how the baby boy’s weight gain has stagnated. He’s not losing weight - he’s just definitely not been gaining at a rate that I’m comfortable with. It’s a hard thing to explain to anyone who’s never had puppies - the fine line between a puppy who’s ... More About: Puppy , Feeding , Bottle
Trying a New Cam Feed
2007-08-23 00:49:00 Below the cut, or visit http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-french -bulldog-puppy-cam. More About: Feed
Frenchie Pampering Goes High Tech in Japan
2007-08-22 17:55:00 Ram, a three-month-old French bulldog, is placed in an oxygen capsule - a form of “pet relaxation therapy” - in Tokyo. BBC News in Pictures I could never understand why a few people were always so irate about dogs being sold to Japan . First of all, they do not ‘eat dogs’ there - they do in some ... More About: High Tech , Tech , High , Peri
Puppy Video!
2007-08-22 04:28:00 Sorry about the crappy colors. It’s hard to shoot video in a room that’s both dark, and harshly lit in one area. Flash format, under the cut, or here’s a link to the wide screen video. Oh, and I still need to get a longer firewire cord to be able to set up the webcam. I’m ... More About: Video , Puppy
Happy Birthday, Dear Puppies!
2007-08-21 23:59:00 Happy Birthday , kids! You’re a week old today. You still don’t have names, because I am old fashioned and superstitious about naming puppies. I think it’s bad luck to give them call names before four weeks - a holdover from my Grandmother’s policy on naming dogs. So, for now you are ‘Boy’ and ‘Girl’, ... More About: Happy , Puppies , Breeding , Happy Birthday
Michael Vick?s jury trial began today and?.
2007-08-21 19:14:00 It doesn’t look good for the defense! More About: Today , Michael , Michael Vick , Trial , Vick
In Which I Realize I?m a *CRAZY* Dog Person
2007-08-21 00:34:00 As Hope wrote in her GollyLog Blog a while back, there comes a day when you wake up and realize “I’m a dog person”. Me? I hit that point quite a while ago. In fact, I probably realized it the day in Grade Four when my teacher asked what I’d done on the weekend, and ... More About: Crazy , Sailor , Tessa , Person
And then there were three.. three puppies, that is
2007-08-18 18:41:00 Not much to add, other than that all three pups are doing well - the boy, the girl, and Mr. Monkey. Mr. Monkey is now an official part of her litter, taking ‘naps’ with his brother and sister, and getting nudged onto Sailor ’s nipples to ‘nurse’. Last night, I screwed up and chucked him onto Sailor’s ... More About: Puppies , Were , Then
Sailor Goes a Little Bit Bonkers
2007-08-17 00:09:00 It’s day three, and the puppies are all doing just fine. Everyone is eating well, gaining weight, and looking fat and glossy coated - just what you want in a litter. Sailor ’s milk is in, and she’s finally huffing a little less as a result. Her appetite is good, and she’s drinking lots of water. She ... More About: Litt , Goes
French Bulldog Puppy News! And Naming Help Needed
2007-08-15 04:35:00 Sailor surprised me a day early, and presented us with two bouncing baby brindle French ie puppies this morning - a silvery brindle boy, and a seal brindle girl. The girl weighed in at 9.6 ounces - almost entire ounce larger than her brother, who weighed in at 8.7 ounces. The girl is a vocal little ... More About: News , Puppy , Rebel , Sailor
A New Group for Owners & Co Owners, and Frenchie Jamboree Plans
2007-08-14 01:15:00 I love getting photos and updates from people who’ve gotten puppies from us. It’s so nice that people take the time to stay in touch, and to care about letting us stay involved in their dog’s life. Whether it’s a win photo from someone who has a show dog, a litter update from someone who used one of our dogs at stud, or just some cute puppy photos, there’s never a time when I’m less than thrilled to get word on how the little ones we’ve sent out into the world are doing. Even when the news is sad - an older dog who has passed away after a long life, or who has a fatal illness, I’m still always touched and grateful to have been kept informed. (more…) More About: Plans , Group , Owners , Frenchie
Negotiating Pet Contracts
2007-08-12 19:30:00 I have what some people might consider to be a rather excessively long sales contract for my pet puppies. As of today, it’s sitting at five pages, although some of that has to do with the fact that I decided to change it to double spaced, to make it easier to read. Even so, it’s still pretty long. You can see my contract in PDF format here, and read the rest of this entry below. (more…) More About: Contracts , Trac
Prepping for Puppies
2007-08-10 23:41:00 Sailor’s litter is due next week, on the 15th. I’ll be making the 1 1/2 hour drive to Michigan to whelp her litter, then it’s back here to my home to raise them. I admit it - I can’t wait, but I’m also a litter nervous. It’s been a long time since I had puppies here ... More About: Sailor , Puppies , Breeding , Prep
Dog Bites Vick
2007-08-06 18:29:00 Film at eleven. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBuEBHi3Bz U More About: Vick , Bite
Southern Christian Leadership Conference To Honor Vick
2007-08-06 05:16:00 From http://itchmo.com Southern Christian Leadership Conference To Honor Vick The Southern Christian Leadership Conference will be honoring Michael Vick at their 49th Annual Convention in Atlanta, Georgia this week. SCLC President Charles Steele announced during a news conference that the organization will find a way to honor Vick during its national convention that began on Friday. ?We will ... More About: Ship
I?ve Been Robbed - And Issue Resolved
2007-08-05 17:45:00 Every so often, I open up my email to receive an email telling me that someone has found our photos being used on another website. For the longest time, these emails were about puppyfind DOT com. It seemed that almost every scam artist in the universe was trying to sell Rebel or Tessa for the low, ... More About: Robb , Been , Issue
A Change to Our Application Process - Or, How Much Do I Hate Email?
2007-08-05 00:56:00 There are many things I enjoy about breeding dogs. Planning possible litters is one of my favorite things - analyzing pedigrees, considering strengths and weaknesses of sires and dams and their ancestors, calculating inbreeding co efficients, running mock ups of possible colors, planning possible combinations two or even three generations ahead. Evaluating my puppies is ... More About: Email , Change , Hate , Breeding , Application
Dog Breeding - it?s where the money is!
2007-08-01 03:53:00 Wow, we dog breeders sure do know how to rake in the big bucks! Why, take a look at the balance sheet for the last few months here at Chez Bullmarket. We decided to breed Journey to my deceased male, Rebbie. That’s not really as gruesome as it sounds, since we have frozen semen on him. ... More About: Money , Breeding , Where , Breed
Another Vicious Dog Attack!
2007-07-28 21:36:00 Ah, not another one - and this one was captured on video! It’s hidden behind a cut, in case the trauma of seeing an American Bulldog brutally mauling a small boy is too much for my sensitive readers to take. You probably really shouldn’t keep reading this. Seriously. More About: Attack , Atta
Wobbly Dogs and Aging
2007-07-28 19:58:00 Tessa woke up the other morning listing. She’s like a ship that’s lost it’s ballast - leaning to one side, head cocked in what should be a cute sort of tilt. Only it’s not cute, not at all. She’s having a hard time negotiating stairs and any kind of uneven ground. She’s barrel rolled herself ... More About: Dogs , Tessa , Aging
Cosette Needs Your Help
More articles from this author:2007-07-18 02:30:00 By now, everyone in the French Bulldog world has heard the story of poor little Churchill, the French Bulldog with the horrific skin condition who was taken in by FBRN. Churchill inspired an outpouring of generous donations from readers who were heartsick at the appalling condition he was in. Unfortunately, FBRN had to make the ... More About: Needs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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