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Notes from a French Bulldog Breeder
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Time to Change Dog Food and Eyes Wide Open
Wed been wondering why Dexter was so hyperactive. The Nellkins have their eyes open! Well, some of them, at least. A few slackers are hanging back, enjoying the peace and tranquility that comes with a perma nap. Photos if it ever stops raining (I need natural light, since I cant use a flash on thos ...
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Penelopes Pups are Nine Days Old
OK, this is a sort of meet the kids video. In order roughly we have: The largest girl, who is a dark cream, getting her belly tickled. Also, can I point out here that she has, bar none, the softest fur I have ever felt? Its double coated, with outer guard hairs that sparkle like spun gold, and eve ...
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Vote for Tessa!
The following message is from Tessa, who is running as a representative in the upcoming elections. By now, of course, everyone is aware of the upcoming elections. As a French Bulldog and a patriot, I have to say that I feel I am more than fully qualified to be your candidate of choice. After all, I ...
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Happy Birfday, Chunk Muffin!
Heart of Gold is two weeks old - Happy Birfday, silly little chunky muffin! Heres the whole photoset, on Flickr.
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Puppy Woes and Vets with Bad People Skills
Sorry for being missing in action, but Penelopes puppies came down with diarrhea, and caring for them has been consuming pretty much every minute of my time. We first noticed it on Sunday afternoon, but by the early hours of Monday morning their poo issues had escalated from worrisome to alarming. B ...
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Little Miss Chunky Butt Opens Her Eyes
Princess Chunky Butt is growing by leaps and bounds, not all of them merely in terms of her girth, either. Her widdle eyes are open (first one yesterday evening, second one this morning), so no more flash photography for a while, which means any photos will be a bit dark and grainy. Shes also super ...
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Penelope Pup Photos
Im having a what was supposed to be a lazy weekend the plan was that Id catch up on sleep while Seans off work and able to puppy watch. Instead, Ive been trying to put some semblence of order into my inbox, digging through the messages on my voicemail, stifling the urge to take my Blackberry out to ...
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Birthday Girl and Puppy Pix
Barb pointed out to me that I forgot to mention that Penelopes pups share a birthday - with Penelope! They were born two years to the day from Penelope. What a nice birthday present! Penelope has lots of milk now, and the pups are thriving. Shes not quite got the knack of the whole cleaning them off ...
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Penelope Got Milk
Well, that sucked. Penelope had a little colostrum at the clinic, so I came home sure that nursing wouldnt be an issue for her. Wrong. What little liquid she had dried up, and around four am I had some screaming mad, super hungry puppies to contend with, and no mommy milk to offer them. Thats when I ...
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Penelope Kids
Mz. P decided she didnt want to wait, and presented us with five pups 3 cream girls, a cream boy, and a black masked fawn boy who can scream down walls. All of them are huuuuge the largest weighs 12.4 ounces. By comparison, Heart weighed 9.1 at birth. Photos now, updates later, sleep hopefully soo ...
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Preparing for Penelopes Puppies
Were in the final few days before Penelope is due to whelp her puppies, and as a result today was moving day. Tula and Heart have been downstairs, in the room weve designated as our whelping room. Its basically a spare bedroom off of our family room, which weve tiled and added a large wall heater to ...
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Ellen Degeneres Disappears Another Dog
I am starting to wonder if Ellen Degeneres is a sort of Bermuda Triangle of dog adopters dogs go in, then disappear, never (except in the case of Iggy, whos doing public service announcements) to be heard of again. So, how many dogs has the Ellen Triangle disappeared? Everyone knows about Iggy, the ...
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Frenchie Puppy Takes a Nap
Action packed video of a sleeping newborn French Bulldog puppy. Shut up, its cute.
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Heart of Gold - Four Day Old French Bulldog Puppy
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Puppy Cuteness Continues and Mad Cow is A-OK
Tulas little cutie, who Im just going to refer to as Heart Puppy from now on, is doing gloriously well. Shes gained over two ounces, going from 9.3 to 11.6 in just three days. Tula is the epitome of a good mommy, with a clean, sensible and calm attitude that radiates competency. Her basic attitude w ...
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Let the photos commence!
Look, consider this forewarned I have a puppy here now, and more on the way, so this blog is about to become booooring, in the way that only new and doting Mommas can manage to be boring. Yes, thats right - pictures. Im going to be posting lots and lots and lots of pictures. In the interest of tryi ...
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Dogs as Interior Design
Have you been thinking of redecorating your study? Tired of the Chinoiserie look that was all the rage a few years ago, and ready to move onto something more au courant? Coming hot off the heels of the Olympics, The Sun Sentinel newspaper offers this riveting piece of lifestyle journalism, in which ...
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One Year Ago Today
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Tula Has a Heart of Gold
Tula went into full labor last night about four days early. We took the pups this morning two of them, one brindle girl, one pied girl. The rest was fluid - a LOT of fluid. My 19 lb girl weighed 26.3 at the vets office this morning, and opening her up was like Niagara Falls. I kept asking the vet ...
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KNBC Update on Gina Price and Rebel Ridge
An early story that Los Angeles television station KNBC did on Gina Price of Rebel Ridge Kennels turned out to be a crucial piece of evidence in her trial. Garcia: Our investigation unknowingly provided other pieces of the puzzle, like how many dogs she was selling. In the footage, Gina Price admits ...
