Memorials

On December 19, 2008, I received a Christmas card from an elderly couple living in a retirement community up in Maine. They sent their usual holiday wishes, just like they have done every year for the last seven years, and then the card ended on a sad note. Winston James died this year, they have…

We are very sad to have to report that Moses, pictured here with his foster mom, Kathleen Jennings, lost his battle against his seizures on Friday, February 27, 2009… Moses made his way from his home in Ohio to his foster mom in New York on the last day of July, 2008, just over six…

Tue Dec 16, 2008 Loved by Beth Thornton and Family, Champagne French Bulldogs I think you have to have lived with a French  Bulldog to understand how truly, wonderfully weird they are (which I mean, of course, in the most affectionate of ways). Take Beth Thornton’s Kirby, for example. Most dogs, if they’re going to…

Right now, there’s a fat little brindle dog standing at Heaven’s Gate, and she is barking, all pissed off and demanding to be let in, NOW. St. Peter is up a tree somewhere, guarding his fingers and toes, and the angels are all saying, do we have to let her in?? Yes, you do have…

June 21st, 2004 – April 11th, 2008 All of My Beautiful Dogs Are Dying – Vicki Hearne . . . Without the beautiful dogs No one dares to attend to desire; The sky retreats, will intend nothing, It is a ceiling to rebuke the gaze, Mock the poetry of knowledge. My death is my last…

  Dora the Explorer came into rescue at nine weeks old from a commercial breeder in Missouri. With a deformed front leg and terribly weak hind legs, she was not expected to survive, but this fiercely determined little pup hoisted herself up first on one leg, then on two legs, and finally on three legs,…

From the moment I met Aurora (then named Sheba), her eyes never left me. She was definitely a momma’s girl. At family gatherings if she lost track of me, she would run around frantically sniffing everyone’s legs until she found me, and then she would look up with that sweet face and I would say…

Carleton – 1997 – 2/8/2008 Karen Krings loved her dogs so much she provided handsomely for their care after her death and provided through a posthumous bequest funds which have enabled the French Bulldog Village to rescue homeless dogs for their sake. Carleton and Lizette, her little French Bulldog, went to live with Rick and…

Bullmarket SumoLeBull Pelshire, CD 11/22/94 to 3/10/08 I remember how we crept through that last year of your life together.  You were so greatly diminished, and I was so terrified of losing you.  Every day that we were together for all those years before,  you had my back and I had yours, daring the world…

January 1996 – June 2008 From the first time Carol & I met Chance, Fran always called him “mom’s Chancie pup”, and he grew up knowing he was special…always being the ruling male in the house. Competing in his very first dog show, he brought home the BOS ribbon, but it was soon decided that…