Articles in Memorials
Just this past week, the FBVillage lost a grand little French Bulldog. He didn’t give his foster mom much occasion to believe he was ill until the day he died, and then he went peacefully, drifting away in his sleep, curled up in his bed only a few feet away from her chair.
He had [...]
Biscuit and Peyton
When Shawn Seamans and his wife Jody returned home from a brief shopping trip, they returned to the kind of nightmare that no person should ever have to endure: their recently purchased home in flames and their dogs and cat inside, beyond their reach and beyond any hope of rescue, their fourteen [...]
I brought her home last July, a frightened angry little old blind French Bulldog, turned out by the person she had lived with since she was a puppy. He didn’t even know how old she was, maybe 10 or 11. She had traveled with him across country, he said, from New York to [...]
When the staff of the Barstow Humane Society in Barstow, California first laid eyes on this tiny brindle French Bulldog girl, they knew that, as hard working and caring as they were, she needed more help than the overburdened and underfunded shelter could possibly provide. Eight years old, barely 15 pounds, extremely emaciated, dehydrated, suffering [...]
How hard it is for a rescuer to look at the dog she has struggled with for so long, so loving and so sweet, but so dangerous and damaged, and to realize that there is only one choice left for that dog, and that is to let him go. That was the choice faced [...]
Little Tinkerbell found her new home beyond the Rainbow Bridge… she passed quietly in her sleep sometime during the night of Monday, October 19th, 2009.
Godspeed, little dog. Run with the angels.
On Friday, June 27, 2008, a Cincinnati attorney and dog lover picked up a young French Bulldog from a pair of Ohio puppy import brokers who were relocating their entire sales operation from Ohio to California the very next day. The young dog was far too fragile to accompany the rest of the unfortunate [...]
Our spirited friend Camera Chenzira, who brightened the lives of all who knew her well, or who even just happened to cross her path, passed away on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2009. Camera was a small dog with a grand personality – she was known to interrupt her daily walk in order to greet neighbors and [...]
I have to let you know that Tyson has gone on to that better place where he has no limp and no seizures and can go as fast or slow as he wants. Sadly for me he has gone on – I know for him it is all good now. He left yesterday [...]
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, [...]


