2012 French Bulldog Jamboree, Mississauga

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Join us in Mississauga on Saturday, May 26th for the 2012 French Bulldog Jamboree!

This indoor play session for French Bulldogs and their friends (four legged and two) helps us to raise money for French Bulldog Rescue, and for the Eastern Canada French Bulldog Club.

Dogs and their people are welcome, and that includes ‘honorary’ French Bulldogs, as well! If you don’t have a French Bulldog, but are considering getting one, this is a great chance to come and talk Frenchies!

Events include:

  • FABULOUS gift baskets raffle
  • Door prize
  • $10 nail trims
  • “Meet the Breeder” session where you can get answers about whether a Frenchie is right for you
  • “Talk to a Trainer” sessions where you can get one on one training suggestions for your Frenchie

All this, plus an afternoon of safe, off leash, indoor play, at one of Mississauga’s best doggy day care centers!

Saturday, May 26th
11:30 – 1:30
Doggy Central, 3151 Lenworth Drive, Mississauga, ON
http://doggiecentral.ca/

Entrance Fee: $10 per person and their pet, or $15 per couple or family with pet. Space is limited – please RSVP in advance.

All funds raised go directly to the Eastern Canada French Bulldog Club Trophy Fund, and to French Bulldog Last Chance Rescue

Super added bonus: we’ll be having a draw for another of our FABULOUS Sock Monkey Gift Baskets, as seen above,  featuring a sock monkey bed, toy, collar and leash set, sweater, and assorted goodies, totalling over $300 worth of incredible sock monkey goodness!!!!!

Check out the facility at Doggie Central!

Doggie Central in Mississauga

Inside Doggie Central in Mississauga

UPDATED: Diamond Pet Food Recalls Expand to 14 Brands (and counting)

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From the Honest Dog Blog comes the newest list of brands recalled for Salmonella contamination, as of Monday, May 7 2012:

The number of brands included in the rolling pet food recall related to salmonella contamination at a Diamond Pet Food manufacturing plant has now grown to 13. The updated list includes:

  • Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul
  • Kirkland (C0stco brand)
  • Country Value
  • Diamond
  • Diamond Naturals
  • Premium Edge
  • Professional
  • 4Health
  • Taste of the Wild
  • Natural Balance
  • Wellness
  • Canidae
  • Apex
  • NEW! Solid Gold

Read the entire post for more details, including information on possible incorrect production codes and SKUs.

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Cinco De Mayo

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TessaTessa – Beloved now and forever.

Saying Goodbye to Lola

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Occasionally, I have the great privilege of placing a dog with someone who seems to have been custom crafted for just that single, unique, particular dog.  Among dog people, we sometimes refer to that once in a lifetime dog as our ‘heart dog‘. I don’t really know of a better way to describe it – this is the dog who occupies a special place inside of our hearts. Don’t get me wrong – it’s not that we don’t love all of our dogs, and it’s not even about loving that one dog more than we love the other ones (no matter how many other ones there might be).  It’s something different – something ineffable. After a while, we you’ve seen or known those two beings together, they become so enmeshed that their names almost start to run together (CharlotteHammer, comes to mind, and for me I hope it’s CarolTessa).

In this case, it was MaggieLola, or since we had more than one Lola at the time, it was usually Maggie’sLola. That wasn’t the most accurate way of putting it, perhaps – I think maybe calling her Lola’s Maggie might have made more sense to most of the people who knew them. Technically speaking, Maggie and I ‘co owned’ Lola together (formal name, Bullmarket Chiquita Lolita), but there was never any question of who Lola belonged to (and certainly not in Lola’s mind there wasn’t). On the occasions when Lola came for a visit, she behaved something like Royalty in Exile – she knew she was better than this, and she knew that soon would come the day when she was returned to her rightful Kingdom, where her loyal subject (Maggie), was waiting to pay her homage (which she was).

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A Certain Kind of Dog

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When I think of Sailor, one word comes to mind – “Barking”. She was the dog who disproved my theory that “Frenchies are sensible barkers” – a theory I published on my much read, but lamentably rarely updated “French Bulldog FAQ”. If you ended up with a barking Frenchie after having read the FAQ, my condolences, but until Sailor, all of my other dogs had been sensible about barking. Not Sailor, though – for her, barking was a recreational sport, a diversionary tactic and a life long proclivity. Sailor was to barking what Tessa was to snuggling, namely: really, really good at it.

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