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If you live in Europe, your Happy Meal could come with a French Bulldog premium. McDonald’s has teamed up with Artist Collection: The Dog (those dog photos with the big-headed, huge-nosed dogs gazing up at you) to offer six different breed premiums in Happy Meals for 2009.

For folks lucky enough to live in Germany, Austria, Benelux, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Eastern Europe, Russia, Switzerland, Greece, Israel or Morocco you will have a 1-in-6 chance your next take-out meal will include something else French, besides fries, in that bag. Good Luck!

To visit the home site for The Dog, click here: The Dog

To see past The Dog premiums, visit this site: Toy Mania

To read more about the promotion, visit this site: Licensing.biz

Look at those Frenchie nails! My, my…tsk, tsk…they need some TLC and so do you!

Time for your Frenchie (or nonFrenchie) to head down to Lofty Dog and get your pooch a pampering pet-icure while you kick back and take it easy. There will even be a trunk show of vintage clothing courtesy of Bettie Page Clothing, which is based out of Las Vegas.

Proceeds of this relaxing, gala event will go to the French Bulldog Rescue Network, a rescue group dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and placement of French Bulldogs in need.

Point your car, SUV, or tandem bicycle in the direction of downtown on:

Thursday October 8
6pm – 8pm

Lofty Dog
403 W. 2nd Street
Austin, TX 78701
512-476-5050

Click here for parking directions.

This event is sponsored by Austin Urban Vet Center and Tito’s Vodka.

If yer going to show, better get your entry in TODAY!

If you aren’t entered by Monday NOON CST September 21, 2009 you and your Frenchie will be looking on from the other side of the lattice fence.

Entries can be made online or faxed. Full details at:
Show Entry and Event Registration

There’s still time to sign up for non dog-showing events. Get the full scoop at the 2009 Specialty webpage. (Note the menu along the right side.)
2009 FBDCA National Specialty

While this topic lends itself to all kinds of potty humor, cleaning up after your pooch is important in more ways than just the avoidance of ruining a nice pair of shoes. In Austin, there are waterways to consider, water which runs through town and feeds into the main water supply. One way to keep that water clean is to clean up what your pet leaves behind his behind. (Warned you about potty humor, didn’t I? )

The Austin Scoop the Poop program has existed since 2000, supplying handy Mutt Mitts in parks to help folks keep things clean. This month, they have ratcheted up the media exposure with an all-out campaign of TV commercials, radio spots, and a pseudo replication of what all the fuss is about. Program mantra: Scoop the Poop for Cleaner Creeks… Cleaner Streets… Cleaner Feet!

Does your town have this issue? Bet your town has creeks and rivers you’d like to keep clean, too. (Or maybe you’d just appreciate your neighbors cleaning up what their dog leaves in your yard?!) Visit the sites below to see how Austin is promoting this program of responsible dog ownership in a positive way.

City of Austin: Scoop the Poop page

Facebook: Scoop the Poop page

It’s in French! It’s highly stylized! It’s all the Action and Manga cartooning you’ve been looking for, and it’s all under the roof of a design studio called:

French Bulldog Studio

Check out the work and artistic flare of a small group of French Manga/Action illustrators by clicking on their characters. Can’t speak French? It’s helpful, but not needed to enjoy all the examples of artwork. You mouse will guide you on what’s clickable and what’s not.

Don’t pass up clicking on the French Bulldogs in the image.