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Have not used this prod­uct our­selves, but it’s worth shar­ing for your con­sid­er­a­tion. It’s called the Wig­gle­LessTM and is a back sta­bi­lizer for dogs who’ve hurt their backs, under­gone back surgery, or for use as a pre­ven­tive mea­sure. The steel bon­ing reduces a dog’s abil­ity to do quick twists and turns, which could injure their […]

When peo­ple ask about puppy or dog avail­abil­ity, we always men­tion get­ting a Frenchie from a res­cue group as an alter­na­tive. To help peo­ple find these dogs, we’ve added a Twit­ter Wid­get fea­tur­ing cur­rent Tweets of French Bull­dog Res­cues to our side­bar. (Look right and down the side­bar, and again at the bot­tom of this […]

A new can­cer treat­ment data­base was launched in Texas late last year: the Texas Vet­eri­nary Can­cer Reg­istry. The pur­pose of the data­base is to sup­ply health infor­ma­tion to own­ers of pets with can­cer and con­fi­den­tially col­lect health data of dogs, cats, and even peo­ple, diag­nosed with can­cer. Sign­ing up is vol­un­tary and by sign­ing up […]

In a multiple-dog, multiple-person house­hold, a sick or injured dog can make things har­ried and con­fus­ing, espe­cially if the dog needs mul­ti­ple med­ica­tions! For years, we’ve grabbed a pad of paper, sketched out a chart and used that to track admin­is­tra­tion of med­ica­tions, leav­ing notes for each other (and our­selves) as needed. Rather than reinvent […]

This news was released today by the Rabies Chal­lenge Fund. Cal­i­for­nia Rabies Med­ical Exemp­tion AB 258 Signed into Law On Fri­day, Octo­ber 7, 2011, California’s Gov­er­nor signed a rabies med­ical exemp­tion into law, Molly’s Bill (AB 258), http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11–12/bill/asm/ab_0251-0300/ab_258_bill_20111007_chaptered.html. Cal­i­for­nia is the 14th state to do so. For our read­ers not famil­iar with this issue, here is a […]

Check­out these great pho­tos of Frenchies surf­ing at the Surf City Surf Dog com­pe­ti­tion in Hunt­ing­ton Beach, Cal­i­for­nia. The event took place last week­end, Sep­tem­ber 23–25, 2011. The 2011 com­pe­ti­tion results list Luigi, a French Bull­dog, com­ing in sec­ond for the Small Dog Cat­e­gory and another Frenchie, Dea­gan, win­ning Best Wipe­out. Please note, all dogs […]

Accord­ing to this 1962 Maid­en­form ad, what it takes to win big in the show ring is a Chan­sonette bra! (Or maybe just the chutz­pah to walk in the ring wear­ing only a sequined skirt and a stole?) This ad is from an iconic series of 50s and 60s Maid­en­form ads, fea­tur­ing women who felt […]

A new res­cue group cre­ated espe­cially for Bull­dogs, French Bull­dogs, Pugs, Bostons, or any breed or mix with a short nose is revving up in Texas. It’s appro­pri­ately called Short Mugs Res­cue Squad. This res­cue is based in the Hous­ton area and only places their dogs in Texas, Okla­homa, and Louisiana homes. Their site currently […]

Tried of zap­ping and shoot­ing things while play­ing Mega Grande Shoot ‘Em Up, or what­ever your dig­i­tal game of choice is? How about trad­ing in but­ton push­ing for dice rolling? Roll your way around the board of Frenchie-Opoly! Frenchie-Opoly plays much like reg­u­lar monop­oly, but with a dog­gie twist. Roll your dice right and it’s […]

Today a spe­cial Recog­ni­tion Cer­e­mony is being held for the more than 1,000 ser­vice dog teams which responded to 9/11 attacks. The cer­e­mony is being held at his­toric Lib­erty State Park, near the Statue of Lib­erty and within view of lower Man­hat­tan and the miss­ing Twin Tow­ers. The cer­e­mony will include recog­ni­tion of spe­cial teams […]