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When evaluating dog ?breeder? websites?
2008-06-10 20:26:00 … it’s a good idea to keep this chart handy. For a good example of this chart in action, I highly suggest consulting this site, as posted in the comments from this thread. It is the veritable trifecta of crazy. However, it does set the bar rather high for other crazy dog breeders. More About: Websites
It?s time to watch out for heatstroke!
2008-06-09 15:27:00 Warm weather is here, and already the stories of French Bulldog s almost dying from heatstroke are coming in. On French Bulldog Z, a reader writes in surprised that her Frenchie can’t walk a mile in 80 weather without almost passing out. I have a 6 month old, neutered, male French bulldog. I love to take walks and ... More About: Watch , Time
Pet Store Hate Mail?
2008-06-06 14:38:00 Oh, goody. We’ve got some pet store hate mail to share with you today, which always makes for fun reading. I should actually clarify here that the mail came in response to this post that I made over on the French Bulldog experts blog. I don’t know if the person who wrote it is affiliated ... More About: Mail , Hate , Store
Hey, you! Internet Explorer users!
2008-06-05 23:54:00 It has been pointed out to me that my blog isn’t displaying properly in Internet Explorer , and that the side bar looks all wonky and out place. I have a solution for this - get a R E A L browser! Seriously, use something else, anything else! Best of all, download yourself a free copy of Firefox . ... More About: Internet Explorer , Users
Thursday Thirteen - 13 Weird Things On Our Google Analytics Page
2008-06-05 14:52:00 Don’t you just love Google Analytics? It’s a rockin’ piece of technology, and ever so useful in helping you to find out how people found your website. I’m not an obsessive about checking stats, but every so often I like to take a look and find out what search terms (the phrase people typed into Google ... More About: Weird , Page , Google Analytics , Thirteen
The Boy is Growing Up?
2008-06-03 13:35:00 Dexter spent quite a bit of time this spring going through a fairly horrid - and fairly typical - gawky stage. His feet were too big for his body, his chest was too big for his body, his rear looked high, his head looked small, and his ears resembled satellite dishes. Add to this the fact ... More About: Dexter , Growing , Growing Up , French Bulldog
Sad News for Fashionistas and French Bulldog Lovers
2008-06-02 17:53:00 Yves Saint Laurent, long time French Bulldog owner and ‘tortured genius’ of Fashion, has died at age 71. While the rest of the world knows him mainly for his fashion, those of us with Frenchies likely know him best for his eccentric approach to dog ownership - over the years, he owned a never ending string ... More About: News , France , Paris , Lovers
French Bulldog Profiles - It?s the Mae Mae!
2008-05-31 04:25:00 Proof positive that Mae Mae is doing swell in her new home comes to us in the form of a whole bunch o’ photos - We luv ya, Mae - and it looks like your new mommy loves you, too! More About: French , Profiles , Bulldog , Frenchies , French Bulldog
French Bulldog Profiles - Chef in Traverse City
2008-05-30 04:22:00 Meet Chef , son of our lovely brindle girl, Paris. Paris resides in Traverse City , Michigan, where his mom is busy organizing the first annual Traverse City French Bulldog walk. You can learn more about it by joining the TC French Bulldog group, over on Ning. Chef’s mom writes: This is Chef…Paris’s baby. He’s a year old now. ... More About: Profiles
French Bulldog Profiles - Toblerone!
2008-05-28 01:41:00 (French Bulldog Profiles is a new feature I?ll be running from time to time. If you?d like me to feature your Frenchie here, send along a few photos, and a short paragraph or two about your pet, to this email address. Links to YouTube videos are also welcome!) Meet Toby, short for Toblerone! Toby’s mom Katherine writes ... More About: French Bulldog , French Bulldogs
French Bulldog Profiles - Chaos in Michigan!
2008-05-26 09:54:00 (French Bulldog Profiles is a new feature I’ll be running from time to time. If you’d like me to feature your Frenchie here, send along a few photos, and a short paragraph or two about your pet, to this email address. Links to YouTube videos are also welcome!) Meet Chaos , which is short for Chaos Reigns ... More About: Michigan
Delilah goes missing, Grandma looks smug? and fighting the good fight again
2008-05-26 00:46:00 OK, before you look at the silly picture, everyone needs to read these blog posts - Luisa’s post on “How to create a dog that will bite somebody” is pure genius, and frighteningly accurate. Best part (worst part?) - Her photos of a ‘killer pit bull’, incarcerated in Texas for killing a child. It is ... More About: Fight , Paris , Fighting , Notre Dame , Tessa
Fun With French Bulldog Scammers - Part Two
2008-05-24 14:54:00 So, when last we left our Nigerian scammer, he was apologizing for having inadvertently trying to sell me the same puppies a second time. Since I am both kind and forgiving, I sent him the following reply – Dearest James - I am sorry if I seemed harsh in my last email. It wasn’t on purpose. I ... More About: French , Part , Bulldog , French Bulldog
Fun With French Bulldog Scammers - Part One
2008-05-23 15:22:00 Like everyone else on the world wide interwebs, I’ve received my fair share of ‘Millionaire wants to give you his money’ and ‘Say, can I send you a $20,000 check for that $2,000 puppy?’ emails. I just mark them as spam, and delete them, since there’s not much payoff in playing with them, and answering them usually just gets your name and email address put on to a ‘try this gullible knucklehead’ list. That said, few things piss me off more than phantom puppy scammers - those evil jerks who invent cheap puppies that they ‘must sell’ due to death in the family, or their ‘missionary’ work in Africa. Yes, I know that they prey on the cheap - but they also prey on the naive, and those who truly do want to do some good. So, with time on my hands and a chip on my shoulder, I was in just the right mood when the following email came to my inbox - Hello there My name is mr James Blue i want to use this oppourtunity to inf... More About: French , Part , Bulldog , French Bulldog
Thursday Thirteen - 13 useful tools for grooming a French Bulldog
2008-05-22 11:47:00 I’ve limited this to the things I use over and over again - if not on a daily basis, at least with some regularity. Feel free to add your own in the comments section. 1. Rubber Curry This thing is just about the best item I’ve ever used for getting rid of loose hair and pet ... More About: Tools , French , Thirteen , Thursday , Grooming
A Memorial for Ellie
2008-05-21 11:34:00 If you are in the Toronto area, you are invited to join us this coming Sunday while we say good bye to our sweet baby girl. Sean and I have decided to scatter her ashes over Lake Ontario from the point at Cherry Beach. This was Ellie ’s favorite place in the world, and we can’t think ... More About: Memorial , French Bulldog , Frenchie
Delilah is French for ?Devil Dog?
2008-05-20 18:01:00 It’s quite possible that Delilah wins the ‘weirdest French Bulldog ever‘ award, or at least the award for ‘weirdest French Bulldog ever owned or known by me‘ award. First of all, she still will not come all the way down the stairs. This is not because she’s incapable of it (unlike Dexter, who’s so large in ... More About: Devil , French Bulldogs
A Sucker?s Game
2008-05-18 13:45:00 I have, from time to time, decided that breeding dogs is a sucker’s game, and that I’m personally not going to play it any more. Usually, this takes the form of my ignoring all email, and just recently I added in “and I’m not blogging anymore, either”, for good measure. Breeding dogs is a sucker’s game ... More About: Game , Frenchies , Frenchie
French Bulldog Photo Blogging
2008-05-17 18:17:00 It’s finally warming up a little, so the dogs have been spending more time in the garden. Tessa likes to find a sunny spot, either outside or in ‘her’ chair, in front of the french doors. Delilah prefers bug hunting, or eating dandelions. Photo s here on Flicker, or in the slide show below. More About: French , Blogging
Still here?
2008-05-11 00:41:00 Sorry, I just haven’t felt much like writing anything since Ellie’s death. I guess sometimes words just don’t seem to matter, and this was one of those times. At any rate, we’re here, we’re fine, there are no puppies (because apparently, we’re under some sort of catastrophic, puppy disappearing cloud of doom), but we’re still hanging ... More About: Breeding , Pugs
It?s never enough time?
2008-04-16 15:36:00 I have a number of things to write about, since a lot has happened in the two weeks I’ve been off line, but nothing more important that this - we have lost Ellie , our special girl, and the light of Sean’s life. Ellie was a special dog from the very beginning. An illness during the final ... More About: Time
Huge Amounts of Computer Suckage
2008-04-02 00:27:00 I’m an unhappy computer geek at the moment. First, my beloved (and almost brand new) Mac’s hard drive melts down. Then, the back up Windoze machine I’m using gets a bizarre, non traceable virus - every time I open Firefox, tens of thousands of consecutive windows open, faster than they can be closed. The simple solution ... More About: Computer , Huge
Spring is Sprung - with Sheep
2008-03-28 15:21:00 If you’ve seen my recent blog post on the God-awful weather we’re suffering through here in mid Western Ontario, you’ll understand why this photo made me smile when it arrived in my inbox - Look closely - those shapes are sheeps. Yup, a hillside full of sheep, all put into place thanks to farmer (and author) David ... More About: Spring , Sheep , Border Collie , Collies
Thursday Thirteen - 13 Books, more or less
2008-03-27 12:02:00 I’m a voracious and somewhat undisciplined reader. First off, I tend to have two or three books on the go at any one time. I’ll read bits and pieces of one, skim through another that I’ve read before, start another and decide it’s not my cup of tea. I’m a firm believer in the ... More About: Books , Thirteen , Neil Gaiman , Thursday
Mosley the Bloodhound - Betrayed by Police in Potosi, MO?
2008-03-26 18:55:00 I don’t know if there’s a way to verify this – http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displayp et.cgi?petid=10285057 If there is, this is one of the most heinous examples of abuse by police officers of an animal that I have ever seen. Meet Mosley In Fenruary 2007, MidWest Bloodhound Rescue placed Mosley with the Washington County Sherrif’s Department in Potosi , Missouri . This seemed ... More About: Police
Easter Snowstorms, Old Photo Uploads and Fat Fat Journey
2008-03-26 14:46:00 I cannot believe how crappy our weather has been. Yesterday tossed a total white out blizzard at us. It dumped a good foot and change of snow on us - and this just after a thaw had finally started to clear out some of the snow we’d accumulated over the winter. From snow to mud and ... More About: Photo , Journey , Easter , Tessa , French Bulldog
Thank You, doG! French Bulldog Info is Back!
2008-03-25 20:16:00 Like most breeders, I broke down and cried like a baby when I read that K9Info was shutting down. K9Info, the on line repository of all things pedigree and record related, for almost all AKC registered breeds of dog, was invaluable to pedigree research. You could search for offspring of record, by partial kennel name, by ... More About: French , Back , Bulldog , French Bulldog
A Tribute to Mr. Bumby
2008-03-24 11:06:00 Mr. Bumby - a True Gentleman I meant to write about this earlier, but time and a bad email filing system got the better of me, and I do apologize for the lateness of this tribute. Mr. Bumby, beloved baby boy of David and Theresa of Chicago, passed away last summer. It took his mom Theresa a ... More About: Tribute , French Bulldog
Weezie Iza Star, and Cows Gone Wild!
2008-03-23 12:03:00 Hey, check out who made it as the very FIRST Frenchie LOL on Ihasahotdog (LOL Cats - aka ICanHasCheezburger.Com - for dogs). It’s Mz IzzyBella, now known as Weezie (or DevilDog, to the poor poor puggies who have to put up with her. Like I said, I can see why she doesn’t make it onto all the ... More About: Wild , Star , Pugs , Cows , French Bulldog
Puppy Blogging, a Mr. Bumby Tribute and Pugs Deserving Better
More articles from this author:2008-03-22 16:54:00 I’ve got a ton of new Solo photos for you to peruse, but I also have some sad news - Solo has gone over to the darkside. Living in a house full of cats has convinced him to join forces with the catnip licking, litter pan using axis of evil. Next thing you know, he’ll ... More About: Blogging , Puppy , Tribute , Pugs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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