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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 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 […]

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 […]

The Cen­tral Texas wild­fires have every­one in this area wor­ried and this week we had our own lit­tle scare when a wild­fire flared up near our neigh­bor­hood. The sirens wailed for over an hour as fire­fight­ers and first respon­ders raced to the site. We feel extremely for­tu­nate and grate­ful the fire was put out in […]

Did you know there are vin­tage poker chips with Frenchies on them? They are part of the Peau-Doux or Po-Do poker chip series and often pop up for sale labeled as French Bull­dog poker chips. Actu­ally they are near-Frenchies. The logo is based on a Toy Boston Bull­dog (now the Boston Ter­rier breed) once owned […]

If you are a Frenchie per­son — or even a semi-Frenchie per­son — you’ve prob­a­bly been e-mailed a news clip of a Frenchie in dire (and I mean DIRE) straits in Atlanta, Geor­gia. A local res­cue has named her Isabella and is pro­vid­ing aggres­sive treat­ment for her full-body demodex mange, infec­tions, severe mal­nu­tri­tion, and other […]

Long­time read­ers of this blog know all about Pas­cal and his adven­tures. Well guess what this lit­tle beige boy and his owner did this past week­end? They won the Wack­i­est Cos­tume Cat­e­gory at Dog­to­ber­fest Austin! Pas­cal dressed up as Prince Pop­py­cock, com­plete with wig and fancy attire. He and his atten­dant (owner Stephanie) strolled across […]

If you’ve attended an Austin fes­ti­val or dog event in the past few years, chances are you’ve seen Dori, a brindle-pied French Bull­dog, hap­pily sit­ting in her cart, maybe with a dog friend or two, being pushed by her owner. If you’ve seen Dori walk­ing, you may notice her gait is a bit dif­fer­ent from […]

Look no fur­ther. Well.…maybe one more click. The French Bull­dog Res­cue Net­work has set up a spe­cial Face­book page where peo­ple are post­ing real-time results, news, and pho­tos of what’s going on in Wis­con­sin this week. Lots of win­ners have already been announced! Fri­day is the BIG day to see who wins the cov­eted BOB […]

Thanks to cable and satel­lite com­pa­nies, you have Movies on Demand, Prime­time on Demand, and now…pets on demand! That’s right. Use your remote con­trol to surf out avail­able pets. It’s a new slant on home shop­ping where poten­tial new own­ers shop­ping for pets, view pets shop­ping for new homes! This on-demand fea­ture has just been added […]