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Yves Saint Lau­rent ‘s pass­ing hap­pened a cou­ple of months ago, but recently found this in-depth blog entry by Pet Sugar about his con­stant French Bull­dog companion(s) named Mou­jik. Hid­den in the entry is a link to a short arti­cle about famous peo­ple in his­tory and their asso­ci­a­tion with Frenchies. Look below the big photo […]

On a walk or out-and-about, peo­ple will often come over to meet one of our guys and spark a con­ver­sa­tion about Frenchies. Many times you hear how they love the breed and always wanted a Frenchie of their own. If we men­tion we show, the quick response is “Oh. I’d only want a pet-quality Frenchie,” […]

Does your Frenchie inspire you to use ono­matopoeia? Allit­er­a­tion? Break out in silly song or verse? Other rhetor­i­cal devices? Do you some­times feel you have turned into the Sat­ur­day Night Live char­ac­ter who man­gled people’s names? (Snort Meis­ter!) Just how many nick­names do you have for your pooch? A cou­ple, five, ten, twenty, lost count? […]

Many years ago, I once heard there is a link between Art & Sci­ence and Math & Music. That is, if you are good at tra­di­tional art, you are usu­ally good in the Sci­ence fields. And if you excel in Math, you are prob­a­bly good with Music. It’s based on the the­ory that the brain […]

Have you ever noticed your Frenchie watch­ing the TV along with you? And not just because there is a dog or cat on the screen? We’ve noticed this behav­ior for years in our guys. (Lucy has this thing for a younger Mel Gib­son.) Found some very inter­est­ing research which deter­mined short-nosed dogs see dif­fer­ently than […]

Does your Frenchie snort? Wheeze? Grum­ble? Chances are, he or she does along with mak­ing lots of other inter­est­ing noises. It never ceases to amaze, as soon as you think you know what this breed sounds like, you meet a new dog and they have yet another unique noise to add. Around our house, it’s a […]