FrogDog Blog – a Blog About Everything French Bulldog
An end to Canine HD in our time?
Hot on the heels of the new DNA test for Juvenile Cataracts comes this breakthrough from Cornell – a possible DNA test for Canine Hip Dysplasia! The possible ramifications for dogs and for dog breeders are staggering. No more waiting until 18 months to find out that your (already pointed, or in some cases already […]
Oh Frabulous Day!
Well, Sean and I finally got the news we’d been waiting for – we’ve been approved to adopt an orphan baby from Tukrmenistan! This is so thrilling. Sean is over the moon and I’m right there with him! Of course, we’ll probably have to give up the dogs, or at least most of them – […]
Journey, Snow, Cops & 'Hypocrite of the Year' Awards
Journey has spent the last two weeks ‘trying out’ her new retirement family, Matt and Kat of Toronto. She returned to us yesterday so she could be spayed by our veterinarian, and will go back to her new forever family tomorrow or later this week. Rather than the joyful, “oh I missed you” homecoming we […]
This and that and other stuff…
I had a hellish week. Hellish, I tell you. I am not going to go into it at the moment, but suffice to say – sulphur, brimstone, the works. Thank God for the weekend. I got a sudden impulse last week to re do my entire web design website from html to CMS. What was […]
Peta STILL Kills Animals, and Tessa Goes to Dagestan
(A note: I am completely bogged down with work at the moment (and happily so, since nothing makes me more gleeful than new websites to muck around with!), so I am going to be blogging lightly and answering email tardily for the next week or so) Looks like 2008 was another great year for animal […]
Zombies, Ice Cubes and Babushkas
Sean and I were watching one of our favorite movies last night, Shaun of the Dead, when I asked him to promise to chop my head if I ever get zombified. It’s just one of those things I’d like to know I’ve prepared for, in much the same way that I’ve made him promise never […]