French Bulldogs in costume

Well each year I put on a French festival in Melbourne and in November 2011 I invited owners with Frenchies to dress them up a-la-francaise, and enter them in a fun, casual contest. Ended up that the judges took the contest far more serious than they were suppose to but when you have the President of the French bulldog association and the CEO of Canidae dogfood I guess it takes things to a new level.

Here are some photos ....

Mike Larkan doing the Channel 10 weather cross, with Can Can dancers in the background ready to present the French bulldogs

This little sweet boy was my personal favourite

Absolutely loved the oen with the

the First few weeks

A few days ago I went to the Australian Open and came home so tired. I got in my pj's and fell asleep watching the tennis. It was really hot outside, I was already sunburt from a day at the tennis and just wanted to sleep. My hubby thought it was funny to take this photo of Miss Molly getting comfortable ... apparantly she stayed like this for about 10 minutes until I realised something was on my head and I shoo'ed her away.

Check out how cute this little guy is. He is for sale & will be available from March 7. Go to the 'available pup & cost' page for further info on how to buy him. He is now 4 weeks old ... While his eyes are fully open, and he can now hear all sounds, his ears are still developing and have started standing up more now. I can't wait till they go all the way up and he starts looking more like a puppy and less like a fat guinea pig... This is Molly patiently feeding him. See his black bum near Mollys head.

This was Pierre at about 10 days. He was sooo tiny.

The size difference between Pierre & Monsieur Fatty above here, was 1:4 .

THis one below is a good one of Monsieur Fatty

Monsieur fatty at 10 days. His nose and face now have a darker mask ( at 4 weeks ).

Monsieur Fatty at 7 days, getting cleaned by Molly

Molly & the two pups

TWIN BOYS

December 28 2011

After lunch today our Molly gave birth to two chubby male puppies. One is black with a white patch on his nose, and the other is white with a black sock.

Do you think three dogs is too much? Already I wouldn't mind keeping the little black one  ....

I must mention that over the past few weeks I have been absolutely blessed by the guidance and suport of our vet clinic. The most wonderful Veterinary Clinic that has ever existed, and I am certainly proud to plug them and sincerely recommend to anyone who has a pet (and especially the French bulldog breed) that if you aren't really absolutely WOW'ed by your vet, then come to ours because they are incredible. I found them by absolute chance last year when we moved to the Camberwell area and only wish that our doctors clinic was of the same high quality, caring and nurturing standard as every vet at this clinic.

Take 2

Uh Oh...

Guess who's having puppies ?

Frenchie Spotting

This beautiful old girl was 11 years old. She was waiting for her owner outside the supermarket in Camberwell. I just loved her from the moment I saw her. She reminded me of my Lola bug (now 8 months) because this Frenchie was so chubby and roly poly just like Lola's thunder thighs.

I'd love to see photos of your Frenchies. If anyone would like to post pictures ....

And remember next week we start registering French bulldogs for the 

PARIS TO PROVENCE festival. 

You get to dress up your Frenchie in something very French. Perhaps a baguette ( a hot dog ! ).

Or a cute beret and stripey red off the shoulder top?

Dog sitting a 3rd Frenchie

SO , in case you don't already know - we pretty much live in a barnyard. At least that's what we call our house. We have two dogs (as you all know) and a cat. Jacques. This is the 3 of them below.

For some reason I thought on top of our two kidlets (3 and 8 months) wouldn't it be SO much fun to dog sit for someone else's dog, too? 

This obviously isn't what I thought at all -  Afterall I have housework, an extremely busy time in preparing my upcoming event, the kids and loads and loads of days of our lives to watch at 2.06pm each day on Channel 9. But I said yes, even though we barely knew them. Because I know how hard it is finding someone you trust to look after your doggies when you're away. We went away 3 times last year. And so here they are ... Remi with Gypsy the dog. This is minutes before leaving her with us for 10 long days. Gypsy was 3 mths old. As soon as he left .... I though ... what the hell am I doing? 

Because, afterall, 3 dogs plus 2 kids under 3, is insanity! 

Above right: Molly & Gypsy canoodling. They were actually asleep like this till I woke them to take the picture.

Another one of them asleep ... ON MADDEN's GUEST BED !!! 

This is NOT your bed, doggies! 

This is a human bed. GET OFF DOGGIES!

Marius hiding, after I tried to move the doggies off the guest bed.

The 3 amigos, having a staring contest with Jacques the cate, immediately outside the screen door.

Snuggling. ON OUR COUCH!! What is it with you guys on our furniture?

Gypsy, fast asleep with her tongue out.

So the verdict on 3 dogs? It was awesome! 

They all got along so well. And beside me having to clean up lots of pee from the puppy over the 10 days - it was loads of fun and our Molly & Marius absolutely LOVED LOVED LOVED it! 

We'd do it again in a second! Anyone else want us to dogsit? 

Update

Hi everyone.

Sorry it's been a while since I've posted and I know you're all wondering how M&M are doing.

They're great! But hey, don't take my word for it ... I'll let Marius tell you himself.

"Woof Woof. I've been doing a bit of modelling lately. This is my latest mid-action shot. We went to the Tan in the city and I got to run with mum. I'm pretty fast. She's so slow and likes to just run in a straight line. It's way more fun zig zagging and running up to people and peeing on trees and smelling other dogs butts. I have noticed though lately mum has been taking Molly out more than me. Does it make me sad? Hmmm yeah sometimes. Just cos Molly is cuter than me, skinnier than me, yeah she's got a good butt, and sure she's more athletic than I am. Alright I know I'm a fat slob but that's okay because when they're not watching I take my baby sister's chew sticks (rusks). No one knows I take them, they think it's the baby but she doesn't even have any teeth yet. They're so gullible. She gets a lot of attention too, although my brother Madden plays a lot with me. He likes to ride on my back and swing the bat at me and throw balls at me. He thinks it's pretty funny. I think it's pretty funny when all the family is in the lounge and I fart really bad. Mum usually blames dad or Madden ... they never realise it's me. Ahhh I love my humans.

Xxx - Marius. Woof.

MOLLY

Woof. Hi guys. It's me, your favourite Frenchie. So life after polar bear has gone back to normal. I get way loads more attention now. Mum likes to take me out running with her cos I'm really good at listening to her. My husband, Marius (typical male) has direction issues and isn't so good at running like I am. I also get to go on a lot of car rides. It's great when our brother Madden isn't in the car cos I get to sit in his booster seat. It's my favourite spot. Sometimes when my sister Lola isn't in the car, I snuggle in her capsule. That's also fun, but I can't see out the window the same.

I've just been chilling with my friend, Jacques (the cat). We're pretty tight now. He's so much fun to chase and jump on and scare. We have a great time and Jacques even plays pretend with me, like when he pretends he's going to eat me and swipes at me. Man, we have so much fun. He's great to snuggle up to though at night.