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 
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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 , High-Tech
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
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
A Walk With the Dogs
2007-07-17 00:05:00 One of the best things about having moved from downtown Toronto to our property near Mount Forest is the backyard. Our acreage is actually an east west stretching pie shape. Our technical ‘backyard’ isn’t really huge - in fact, we can easily see our property line from our deck, or our pool. What’s behind that property ... More About: Dogs , Walk , The D
Pit Bull Heroes
2007-07-13 22:23:00 Grab the kleenex before you watch this video. Sniffle… More About: Heroes , Pit Bull , Bull
A Litter Update - and Some Thoughts on Multiple Breedings
2007-07-12 12:10:00 Right, first things first. For those of you just interested in litter news and puppy updates, here’s what we know at the moment: Mae is NOT pregnant. She likely re-absorbed her pups at some point after her ultrasound. It happens. Divine is NOT pregnant. Journey might be pregnant. Sailor is pregnant. There you have it. You can now choose, if ... More About: Thoughts , Update , Breeding
Penelope Yodels
2007-07-06 15:48:00 Just a quick video, showing off Pene lope ’s junior version of the infamous Frenchie Death Yodel. More later today, on puppies and breeding and why you should get a really big basket if you plan on putting all your eggs into it. Sigh. More About: Enel
Fatal Dog Attack Near Ottawa
2007-07-03 14:07:00 In a tragic incident over the weekend, a 17 month old toddler was mauled to death by her grandparent’s dog. There was no history of agression with the dog, a Shepherd Rottweiler mix, and it was apparently raised with children and well socialized. While the story is undoubtedly horrific, I was most shocked by the even ... More About: Ottawa , Attack , Fatal , Atta
Frenchies and Kids
2007-07-01 19:39:00 It’s funny how you can never quite tell how any one individual dog will react towards children. Yesterday we had company over, and they brought three year old Riley along with them. My older dogs are all completely kid proof, having been raised in a household full of children of all ages. The younger dogs ... More About: Kids , Journey , Tessa , Frenchies , Frenchie
Birds on My Window
2007-06-25 02:56:00 My dining room window looks out on to my wide, deep front porch. As such, it’s sheltered from the elements, and I haven’t closed it once since the warm weather arrived. As Sean and I ate dinner last week, I noticed something on the top of the window - a dark lump, like a large ... More About: Birds , Window
In Which Tula Drives Me Up a Wall
2007-06-24 00:07:00 French Bulldogs are not known for being the most agile of animals. To be honest, your average Frenchie has a hard time climbing on to the couch, let alone climbing an obstacle. As with all things, however, there are exceptions. Years back, I owned a gorgeous little brindle pied girl named Chicky. She was a wonderful ... More About: Wall , Tula
French Bulldog Websites? a LOT of French Bulldog websites!
2007-06-22 19:52:00 OK, there comes a time when you wake up and realize “Holy crap. I need to get a life.” For me, that moment came when I sat down and really took a look at how many French Bulldog websites I have created. It started out simply enough - we shared info space on bulldog.org *, which ... More About: Websites , French Bulldog
A tiny change?We?re now FrogDog Blog
2007-06-22 00:40:00 It’s been pointed out to me that there’s already a “Frog Blog ” out there, written by a guy who is interested in (what else?) frogs. So, to save confusion, I’ve renamed this blog ‘Frogdog Blog’. That should prevent anyone from coming here and looking for tips about their sick tree frogs. Carol More About: Change , Tiny , Chang , Chan
?Placing? Dogs and Picking Homes
More articles from this author:2007-06-21 19:51:00 I have been thinking lately about the concept of ‘placing’ older dogs. ‘Placing’ is synonymous with ‘retiring’ - it means that we find good, loving, preferably close by homes for our older girls or boys who are no longer active in our breeding program. The theory is sound - dogs who have had to be ... More About: Dogs , Homes , Picking 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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