Brie the French Bulldog Terrorizes Manhattan
First we had demonic French Bulldogs taking over an office building in The Hague – now we have an angelic French Bulldog taking over Times Square.
I’m sensing a trend here – forget about packs of toddler devouring Daschunds. What the world really needs to be worried about are French Bulldogs taking over entire buildings.
Move over, Godzilla. Get bent, Mothra. Make way for the French Bulldog that ate Manhattan.
Someone alert the media – wouldn’t that make a swell sound bite?
Author’s note: Brie is actually a cute little Frenchie from Colorado. She owns Marleen Puzak, and is more inclined to eat cookies than she is to devour buildings.
Just don’t piss her off.
Here’s a close up of her appearance in Times Square, which was part of Purina’s Picture Your Dog in Times Square event.
Update: Gina Price is Found GUILTY
Updated news from two of the trial witnesses: Gina Price has been found GUILTY!
From John Hoffman –
I am very pleased to report that this afternoon, July 14, the jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee convicted abusive puppy importer Gina Price of fraud by mail, fraud by wire, income tax fraud and social security fraud. The jury acquitted her on 2 counts of witness tampering because they were unable to sufficiently recall the revlevant testimony.
Ms. Price was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshall pending sentencing on December 8, 2008.
There will likely be stories in at least two local newspapers tomorrow. I will forward copies.
John E. Hoffman, Lawyer
This note from Tom, another trial witness, details how Gina tried to play the ‘poor, sick, crazy lady card’, and failed –
Gina Price was found guilty on:
1. Wire Fraud
2. Mail Fraud
3. Social Security Fraud
4. 2 counts false statements to Social Security
5. 2 counts False tax returnsThey are looking at between 72 to 84 months in prison. Hopefully it will be close to 7 years.
Its finally happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SHE PULLED HER MENTAL THING AND THE JUDGE CALLED AN AMBULANCE, SHE REFUSED THE EMTS OF EVEN TOUCHING HER. NANCY HARR ASKED FOR IMMEDIATE INCARCERATION SINCE THE RISK OF A RUN WAS GREAT. (Judge) AGREED, Said ” US MARSHALL, PLACE THIS WOMAN IN CONFINEMENT”
…….YEAH AND WOO HOO!
The case has been well covered in the Tennessee newspapers, with Knox News and the Tricities Paper doing an excellent job. Reporter Mac McClean in particular did a wonderful job. It was refreshing to see newspapers and reporters not blowing this off as just ‘another dog thing’.
You can read the full reports on the jury’s decision here and here.
And before you leave… Go read Charlotte Creeley’s excellent blog – “What if the Price Trial Was Conducted by Dogs?”
My thanks to those who’ve been following the trial via this blog, and to the witnesses who’ve been sending me reports from the trial.
Homemade Ice Cream for Dogs
I occasionally like to make a nice cold treat for the dogs when the weather gets really hot. Yes, you can buy commercial doggy ice cream treats, but how freakin’ lazy are you, anyways? Get in that kitchen and whip up a batch, for one tenth the price. Sheesh.
I use a recipe I found someplace or other on the net, way back when old people like me were still (non ironically) referring to it as the ‘information super highway’. Ha, now that’s old!
Dog Days of Summer Icey Treats
- large container organic, live culture vanilla yogurt
- 1 large ripe banana
- 2 tablespoons natural, un sweetened peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons non pasteurized honey
- handful of blueberries
Directions
- Blend all ingredients together and freeze in 3-ounce paper cups.
- Microwave for just a few seconds before serving.
Alternate additions: Carob chips, banana chunks, grated carrots for doggies on diets, or just about anything else.
Since Penelope is allergic to peanut butter, we skip it and add a handful of hemp hearts and any of the other alternate ingredients I mentioned above.
Of course, you could also try this recipe, which should have a richer, meatier taste than the one above – and isn’t ‘meaty‘ the quality we should all be looking for in our ice cream?
Candied Bacon Ice Cream* – click here for the recipe
* I’d like to point out to those of you who think that ‘candied bacon ice cream’ is the worst thing ever done with bacon that it could have been worse – much, much worse. It could have been bacon topped chocolate chip cookies. Yes, seriously. I should also point out that I just said the words ‘bacon topped chocolate chip cookies’ out loud, and Sean instantly jumped up and said “ooh – where? What? Make some!!”. So, there you go. Boys will eat anything, especially anything with bacon on it, proving that men = dogs in more ways than we could have imagined.