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Nemo – New Frenchie Foster Dog

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Nemo is now officially available for adoption.

His bio, from the Eastern Canada French Bulldog Rescue website:

Nemo- French Bulldog/Boston Terrier Cross

Nemo is the perfect dog for someone who has always wanted a Frenchie, but would also like a more “athletic” dog. At six and a half years old, Nemo is 25 lbs of solid muscle, with perfect breathing and the ability to run like the wind and jump like a gazelle!

He’s a total lap dog, who loves cuddling up and watching television, and he’d love to sleep next to you at night. He gets along with people of all ages, including children, and listens to commands including “sit”, “down” and “stay”. He has had basic obedience training, but could use a refresher course. What Nemo needs most of all is energetic play, and more attention. He would benefit from at least two to three good walks or runs a day, and would be the perfect partner for someone who walks or jogs (or even bike rides).

Nemo gets along well with female dogs, but he is not suitable for homes with other male dogs. He is not aggressive, but will not back down from a challenge. Nemo is NOT suited to homes with cats, as he is a dedicated cat chaser.

Nemo is house broken and lead trained, but is unused to spending time in a crate, although we are working on this.

Nemo is in Southern Ontario, but is available for adoption to any suitable homes willing to travel to pick him up. He cannot be shipped.

If you are interested in applying to adopt Nemo, please complete our adoption form:

http://www.frenchbulldogscanada.com/french-bulldog-rescue/ecfbc-adoption-application/

Once we have received your form, we will contact you to arrange an interview.

Ema’s Big Day is Here

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Ema in November

This morning, Ema, Eva and I met with Dr. Brisson and her cardiac surgery team at the University of Guelph small animal clinic.

Dr. Brisson just returned to work this morning, but she had already been caught up to speed on Ema’s condition and prognosis by Dr. O’Grady and the other members of the Balloon Procedure team. When we arrived, Dr. Brisson was already aware of all of Ema’s various conditions, and she was ready to jump right in to doing her own evaluation.

Two hours later, we got the news we’d been waiting for – Ema has a surgical date for tomorrow morning at 8:00 am. We are proceeding with her surgery, although we’re aware that there’s only a 50:50 chance that she’ll survive it. For Ema, this is her only hope. In the short time she’s been with us, all of us who love Ema have watched her condition slowly worsen. Even when being carried almost everywhere by Eva, Ema’s seizures are worsening, and happening more often. She’s tired and lethargic most of the time, and minimal exercise and excitement wear her out. Without surgery, she will suffer increasingly from the effects of her conditions, and I just won’t let that happen to her.

As of this morning’s appointment, we’ve spent over $1700 just getting Ema to this stage. Her new surgical estimate is $4500.00, and we have about $2500.00 left of the money we’ve raised to put towards that. This means that, once again and for the final time, I’m asking for your help in getting Ema to the finish line. Tomorrow’s surgery will hopefully mean that Ema will wake up with a new lease on life, and a chance at finally being the puppy she so desperately wants to be.

If you can help, please make a donation towards Ema’s surgery fund. With any luck, this is the last time I’ll have to ask, because tomorrow afternoon I’ll be telling everyone that she’s in recovery and doing just fine. The same offer applies that I made for CJ – if you donate $250 or more to Ema’s surgery fund, I’ll add a banner for your company (or whatever you want, so long as it’s legal) to this blog for six months.

Happily Ever After for Peanut

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Peanut and Denise

Peanut and Denise

Peanut, our Frenchie foster -slash- whirling dervish house guest, went off to her forever home over the weekend. I got her as far as Beamsville, and FBV foster volunteer Karen took her to Buffalo, NY, where she met up with Peanut’s new mom, Denise.

As sad as we are to see her go (right up until Saturday morning, Sean kept mentioning that “Peanut didn’t take up any room – we might as well just keep her”. There’s also the chance he might have hinted that we could give Sailor a dye job and send her instead of Peanut), it’s nice to know she has a home where she can be the divine diva she’s always wanted to be.

Peanut now lives in Massachussets, with mom Denise and big brother, Romeo. She’s also managed to snag herself an honorary “Grandma and Grampa”, and she obviously knows which side her bread is buttered on, because our lap shy little girl instantly crawled up onto Denise’s dad’s lap and made herself right at home.

Manipulation, thy name is Frenchie.

Happy trails, Peanut – long may you spin in circles, my adorable little weirdo!

A longer Ema update coming…

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I had a really, really long day, but I promise a full Ema update tomorrow*, along with all of the grisly anatomical details.

For now, how about a happy photo?

Get me outta here!

It’s Pumpkin Princess Ema, saying “Enuf wit the camera – get me outta here, lady!”.

* unless I get a sudden “we can do the surgery this afternoon at 3 pm” type phone call from the University of Guelph, in which case all bets are off

Oh, and ps – don’t forget, our new surgical goal is $3800, give or take – preferably give.

Ema at the Veterinary Cardiologist

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I have a long, hard story about what we learned at today’s appointment with Ema. The short story? It’s fixable – expensive, but fixable.

At the moment, however, I’m just not up to writing about it – not yet. For now, I’m just going to give you a pictorial on Ema’s appointment with Veterinary Cardiologist, Dr. Sandra Minors, at the Mississauga Oakville Veterinary Referral Clinic.

Ema in the car enroute to the clinic. The resolution isn’t great, but you can sort of see the color of Ema’s tongue here – a uniform blue, almost all the time.

See the rest, after the cut – and please don’t forget to help, if you can.

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