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A new pub­li­ca­tion about Frenchies came out this week. A 28-page book­let pub­lished by the French Bull Dog Club of Amer­ica titled French Bull­dogs: The Basic Course, Is this the right dog for you? (Dis­claimer: we are mem­bers and had a lit­tle some­thing to do with the cre­ation of this book.) This book­let is for any­one thinking […]

There is a new paper­back book com­ing out in April, which not only has a Frenchie as a char­ac­ter (a talk­ing angel), but also inspired the cover art. The book is Every Demon Has His Day by Cara Lock­wood. Pub­lisher is Down­town Press and the release date is set for April 7, 2009. The novel is […]

It’s offi­cial. The newslet­ter won a DWAA award! The Dog Writ­ers Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica 2008 Annual Writ­ing Com­pe­ti­tion list of win­ners was posted today. A quick scan, and there it was: the Frenchie Forum with three aster­isks indi­cat­ing it was the win­ning National Breed Club Newslet­ter. A quick hop down the list showed the win­ning Frenchie […]

By now, some read­ers have fig­ured out a designer is behind this blog and these Frenchies. (In James Bond speak: Designer. Graphic Designer. Sans Serif, straight up. No oblique.) Why bring this up now? Because in a cou­ple of weeks the Dog Writ­ers Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica will announce the win­ners of their yearly writ­ing competition. […]

You’ve sat in his­tory class and heard facts and dates about the peo­ple who lived before you. Have you ever won­dered if there is a canine equiv­a­lent? There actu­ally is! It’s called the Ore­gon State Uni­ver­sity (OSU) Canine Research Col­lec­tion and is located in Cor­val­lis, Ore­gon in the Val­ley Library. It started in 2000 with […]

Inter­ested in French Bull­dogs and want “Just the facts, ma’am”? Surf over to the Wikipedia list­ing. You can get the basics on Frenchies, Frenchie health, and visu­als of the var­i­ous coat col­ors. There are links to all sorts of info sites and the inter­na­tional French Bull­dog clubs. Frenchies on Wikipedia This one page can keep […]

This header caught our eye this morn­ing in the local paper, The Austin American-Statesman. Not only is the arti­cle about how to take great pho­tos of pets, it HAS a great photo of a Frenchie lay­ing on top of a cement pig, and (of course) it made the front page! The arti­cle was writ­ten by Sandra […]

You may have already got­ten your paws on this book. (It came out a cou­ple of months ago.) But if you have been con­tem­plat­ing whether to get it, by all means, do! The book is The French Bull­dog by Muriel P. Lee and will serve as one of those “go to” tomes about French Bulldogs. […]