Missing French Bulldog Alert & Support Frenchies on Valentines Day!
Bella is Missing from Coffeyville/Montgomery County, Kansas
Lost/ Picked up in Montgomery County Kansas, 1 Mi. South of HWY 166 & Dearing turnoff intersection.
Five month old French Bulldog pup, white with large black spot on rump. Speckled ears. Fourteen pounds last week.
Went AWOL while outside on potty break with our other dog, a Lab. Lab came back without her. We searched woods and pastures for hours, which turned into days.
Went missing Thursday, Jan. 24th, 2008. We are 1 mile from the Oklahoma border.
REWARD!
Please call 620-948-6249 or email seegedo@aol.com .
HER FAMILY MISS HER!!
ps: Please cross post, if you can. Such a tiny puppy, to be out in such terrible weather all alone.
Support French Bulldog Village with a Virtual Valentine!
None of us need another box of Chocolates this Valentine’s Day, and paper cards are so 2001, so send someone special your love with a virtual Valentine, from the French Bulldog Village!
Pick a chocolate kiss, a classic Valentine, a Frenchie Kisses Card, a candy hug or kiss, dedicate a custom framed Frenchie valentine, or choose one of the fun, animated cards!
Go here to send someone your love, or to show your love for your Frenchie!
Each and every penny you donate supports FBV and the Karen Krings Memorial Fund, which allows them to help dogs like lovely Lulu.
From the FBV site:
Poor LuLu! At just eight weeks old on September 1, she is struggling to adjust to her new foster home. Her new foster parents, two teenaged boys, and the resident dogs are all trying to make it easier on her, but she still wakes up in the dark and screams her little heart out. She doesn’t know where she is. She doesn’t recognize the voices around her or the hands holding her.
It’s always dark when LuLu wakes up. Before her eyes even opened, a severe infection took away all of the vision in her right eye, and most of the vision in her left eye. Faced with a blind puppy, her breeder decided to turn her over to the French Bulldog Village so that this little four pound baby could get all the special attention that she needed and have the best possible start on what we all hope will be a healthy long life.
How could you say ‘no’ to giving just $5 to help a dog like Lulu? (Shameless guilt tripping – I’m perfectly OK with it).
Beautiful Bullies, "where's yer Willie?" and Frogs Needing Homes
On February 9th, Bullies from across North America will be congregating in Long Beach, California, for the 4th annual ‘Beautiful Bullies‘ competition. For the first time ever, Frenchies have been welcomed into the competition.
Do you think they realize how totally and utterly Frenchies are going to dominate this competition? Go team Frenchie! If you’re in the area, stop by and check it out.
I’m spending this coming weekend in lovely Wiarton, Ontario, where I’ll be anxiously awaiting the predictions of Wiarton Willie. Will it be six more weeks of winter, or an early spring? We’ll have to wait for Saturday to find out.
Willie’s weather prognostication career has been sadly marred by scandal. In 1999, the long lived original Willie was found dead, and festival organizers were unable to find a replacement in time for the weather prediction. Instead, they marked Groundhog Day by revealing “Willie” in a coffin. He had been dressed in a tuxedo, had coins over his eyes, and a carrot between his paws.
A scandal ensued when it transpired that the real Willie had in fact decomposed, and the body in the coffin was that of an older, stuffed groundhog. The Associated Press was obliged to issue a retraction on its wires.
There are numerous other weather predicting groundhogs across North America, although Willie is the only albino.
Wikipedia lists:
- Punxsutawney Phil found in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
- Wiarton Willie found in Wiarton, Ontario
- Staten Island Chuck found in New York City, New York
- General Beauregard Lee, PhD found in Atlanta, Georgia
- Malverne Mel and Malverne Melissa found in Malverne, New York
- Brandon Bob of Brandon, Manitoba
- Balzac Billy of Balzac, Alberta
- Shubenacadie Sam of Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
- Gary the Groundhog of Kleinburg, Ontario
- Spanish Joe of Spanish, Ontario
- Sir Walter Wally of Raleigh, North Carolina
- Pardon Me Pete of Tampa, Florida
- Jimmy the Groundhog of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
- Octoraro Orphie of Quarryville, Pennsylvania
If you can’t make it Wiarton, or to any of the other February 2cnd groundhog day celebrations, you can check out the live WillieCam – http://www.wiartonwilliecam.com/
They’ll be broadcasting Willie’s predictions live on Saturday morning, bright and early at 7:00 am eastern standard time. Sean and I will be there with the dogs, so if you are planning on attending, drop us a line!
Side note: a friend of ours on the upper east coast of the USA has suffered a family emergency. Due to this, they are placing several lovely teenage French Bulldog puppies, and a few retired show girls. If you are interested in learning more about these avail-a-bullies, please email her directly.
What is a 'working' dog?
I spent most of last week flat on my back, sick with the flu. Thank God for Jane Austen novels and French Bulldogs that love to snuggle, because they are the only thing that can get me through a week of enforced bed rest and computer abstinence. There’s something about a snoring Frenchie warming your feet that speeds up the healing process. I know I’m not the only person who feels that way, either. Years of doing therapy visitations has taught me that few things can cheer up a sick, lonely or isolated person faster than a lap full of Frenchie.
None of this should really be too surprising to us, when we consider what French Bulldogs were originally bred for. Unlike Border Collies or Jack Russell Terriers, Frenchies have only been designed with one ‘job’ in mind, that of being a companion.