Some pix of the kids in their new digs are up over on Flickr —
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchbulldogs/sets/72157607725967594/
Don’t forget to send in your crusty nose photos — contest closes this coming Friday! Stay tuned for another great contest – with prizes! – coming soon!
.. but really it’s an excuse to screw around with new graphics and some awesome new plugs ins.
If you check in over the weekend, don’t be surprised if, from time to time, things look a bit wonky.
I’m playing around with some new blog styles — some of which are pretty radical looking — so don’t be all “OMGWTF?” if you drop in and find flying crows and goth-slash-emo fonts littering up the place.
The sucky thing about word press is that, if you really want to tinker with a theme, you have to activate it to try to change the features and see if they’re working. There’s really no other way to test it out fully.
On the other hand, if you enjoy the mental image of me tearing out my hair and bashing my head against the monitor in frustration, feel free to drop in and see if anything looks seriously screwed, because rest assured that, if it does, I’m sitting over here quietly losing my mind trying to fix it.
Oh, and the Nellkins are out of the whelping box, and into.. umm, the whelping pen. Actually, it’s an ex pen, in which they have an automatic waterer, beds, toys, pads for wee weeing on, and a gate that Nell can get in and out of at will (ok, mostly out of). Heart will be spending half the day in there with them, and the rest of the time — and at night — she’ll be with Tula.
I might get ambitious and break out the web cam tomorrow night, for some live puppy play time action. If I do, I’ll post it here and on the mailing list.
General puppy goofiness abounds in this one, including the Nellkins first attempt at eating pablum, a close up of Butters looking all superstar, Jelly getting her tummy rubbed, Heart and Jelly sharing kisses, and Rumble and Pixie snuggle sleeping (as usual).
Don’t forget to enter your crusty nosed Frenchie in the contest — send your photos in today!
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What is Nose Butter? We’ll let Blissful Dog owner and French Bulldog breeder Kathy tell you in her own words.
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Hey, Wayne Pacelle — if you get a chance while talking to Ellen, could you ask her what happened to all of those dogs she adopted and then dumped?
Is the HSUS OK with that, for the record? Are you guys OK with celebrities who adopt pets, only to dump them months or even just weeks after bringing them home? Is that HSUS policy now?
I’m going to assume it is, since you’re happy to hook your wagon onto her star, at least for the sake of publicity. That’s fair – it’s pretty much the same thing Ellen did to Pig, the French Bulldog she pimped on greeting cards and show segments, and then quietly disappeared from her life, and all of her promotional materials.
Could you especially ask her what happened to Pig? Some of us are kind of worried about him. Did she return him to the pet store, or turn him over to rescue, or hand him off to a hairdresser or the guy who details her car? Just give us a hint, if you could. We’d really like to know.
If you can spare time away from dancing with her, that is.