For the love of all things, who lets a dog live like this, then dumps him on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere? Thanks to some special Bulldog lovers, never will this boy go without proper care again. Please welcome Fletcher to our rescue family and follow him on his road to recovery. He is super sweet and loving. He wants nothing more than to put his head in your lap.
2/22/17 Update: Fletcher is another extremely horrible case for this Foster Ma. Every time I go into his room, I just lose it. He was very sad, confused and insecure when he arrived in my home. I am having to keep him quarantined from my dogs as he has kennel cough. I have only had him four days and canāt believe the changes in him. The small amount of time I spend with him has just made a huge difference in his personality. Through my tears, I hold him and love on him and tell him he is so handsome and gorgeous. He wags his tail on gives me lots of appreciative kisses. He is getting a little more confident and also has started to venture a little further out into the yard. It is so tempting to want to give him a big dinner of pot roast, mashed potatoes and some gravy! I can see and feel every vertebrae in his back, hip bones and every rib. Who knows how long he spent on the back roads after being dumped.
Yesterday, he went to the vet to get the stitches out of his eyes. The minute I took out the leash, he got so excited! This guy LOVES car rides! After he got his stitches out, he was cheezinā for the camera! Fletcher has a long way to go. He is getting lots of good food, raw goats milk and fermented fish stock! All the best nutrients to build up his immune system, so he can fight off the demodex buggies. Fletcher is very good in the bath tub and also will sit very still while I put in his eye drops. Fletcher has dry eye, so he will always require medicated eye drops. He is on the road to recovery and by the time I finish with him, he will be the confident, healthy Bulldog that God created him to be!
3/17/17 Update from Fletcher:
Beautiful Bulldog
I was dumped in the country
My people couldnāt see
The beautiful Bulldog
I was created to be.
When I came into rescue
I didnāt have any hair
Now Foster Ma says
Iām a fuzzy bear!
My life was so sad
I didnāt know love
But my Foster Ma says
I am a gift from above.
She kisses my nose
She kisses my face
She loves me so much
I have learned about grace.
I get lots of snacks
I get healthy food
I never knew my life
Was gonna be so good!
I LOVE to jump
I LOVE to run
I am getting better
My life is now FUN!
My name is Fletcher
Now everyone can see
The BEAUTIFUL Bulldog
God created me to be.
3/30/17 Update: Howdy, everybullie. Itās me, Fletcher!My foster ma has been so busy with work, she hasnāt had time to do my update. So I am going to tell you how I am. I know foster ma is a little discouraged that my recovery has been so slow. I havenāt come along as well as the other demodex Bulldogs that sheās had in the past. She would love to say that I have gained lots of weight and am covered with hair. But I was just so sick, that it is taking me much longer to come along. As much as she loves me, she keeps saying that I have a āHappy Furever Afterā coming my way someday. I canāt even imagine that my life can be better than this! When I first came into rescue, they told me that I was going to live in the country with this foster lady. I was thinking, āAre you kidding me? I just escaped the country!ā See, when someone decided they didnāt want me anymore, they drove me out to the country and dumped me. I wanted NOTHING to do with the country life again!
Well, I had no idea country living could be so pawsome! In this country life, there are warm, softy fluffy beds everywhere. One in every room of this place! No sleeping outside on the cold hard wet ground for me! I sleep in my foster maās bedroom on a big round fluffy bed in my playpen.
I love my playpen and I even go in there when she keeps the door open for me. I love jumping and rolling in my bed and chewing on bones!I got the best foster brothers and sisters a Bulldog could have! I like to hang out with my brothers, Gordon and Fletch. (YUP! We have a Fletch and me, Fletcher!) My foster sisters are great. They take care of me. My sister Piglet has become very protective of me. She cleans my boo-boos and washes my face. She kept me safe during those bad thunderstorms when we had to go into the saferoom. I am on the road to recovery, but I still have a lot to overcome. I know that my āHappy Furever Afterā is coming someday when I am all better!
4/11/17 Update: I just love this kid! He has been so easy to foster, except for the baths every other day. He went to the vet on Friday and they did a skin scraping. He no longer has any active demodex mites! They are all gone. But he is still so itchy from the skin healing that he has scratched himself raw and has caused a skin infection on his sides. He is now on a round of antibiotics and hydroxyzine for the itch. Nurse Piglet is always on hand to help out with Fletcherās medical care! He still gets cold very easily and I always have to keep warm, snuggly blankets in every room in the house for him. He loves hanging out on the doggy sofa in my office while I am working. He is so stinking cute and just so sweet! He had an absolute AWESOME time at the Waco rescue event this last weekend. Lots of people came to see him and he got lots of love and pets. No one seemed to care that he didnāt have much hair. Letās face facts: If he is this stinking cute with so little hair, think about how ridiculously cute he is going to be when all his hair grows back! āHe hung out in his stroller at the event and just let everyone come to see him. He had a great time and he snored all the way home!
5/15/17 Update: I have been resting up so that I can come out to the big Dallas Pet Expo this Saturday! I am going to be there after lunch! I am so excited! I hope I get lots of pets and kisses like I did at the Waco event. So, hereās the latest on me. I am still on a medical hold because I have a recurring skin infection. I am so itchy that I scratch myself and my skin gets infected. I am trying out a new medication for my itchy skin. Foster Ma prays this will work! I still need to gain a lot of weight.
The good news is that I have gained 5 1/2 pounds since I have come into foster care. The good news is that I still need to gain another 7-8 pounds. What? You think thatās bad news? As long as I need to gain weight, that means I am going to get four meals a day! FOUR! Thatās two more a day than these other hounds in the house get! Iām diggin this needing to gain weight thing. I was starving for so long that four meals a day is heaven on earth! FOUR! My meals include a heaping cup of Zignature kibbles, canned salmon, yogurt and a farm fresh egg. PAWSOMENESS! Because my hair has still not grown back all the way, I still get cold very easily. At night, I sleep on a big fluffy bed that is right next to my Foster Maās bed. Once she tucks me in, I donāt move all night long. My favorite place to sleep is on the sofa with my Foster Ma watching movies! I love the soft blanket that she made. I pull it of the back of the sofa and make myself a nice little nest.
Here are some facts about me:
1. I am a REALLY GOOD BOY!
2. I am house trained. When I need to take care of any of my bizniz, I go to the back door. If Foster Ma doesnāt see me, I let out a nice loud WOOF.
3. I donāt chew on nuffinā that aināt mine! I chew on my bones and not on Foster Maās Jimmy Choos!
4. I LOVE walks and car rides. LETāS GO!
5. I am a very good snuggler!
6. I get along with ALL dogs and kids. I am pretty easy going and mellow that I probably would get along with cats, too. But Foster Ma is allergic to cats, so we canāt test this theory.
7. I am a very good guard dog! If there is a noise outside or someone at the door, I let them know I am the boss and I mean business. I donāt run from anything that scares me, I run at it. But I am a VERY friendly boy. If my Ma says youāre OK, then I am turn on the charm!
If you are thinking about adopting me, I have some requirements:
1. Lots of food and treats!
2. A BIG FLUFFY bed to sleep in at night.
3. Lots of love, pets and kisses for me.
And most of allā¦..YOU HAVE TO APPLY TO ADOPT MY FROGGY TOO! Love, Fletcher
6/20/17 Update: HEY EVERYBULLIE! Itās me, Fletcher (left) and my foster brother, Gordon! Gordon is a Lone Star Bulldog Club Rescue alumnus. When he came into rescue, he had infections from head to toe! He was a hot mess. But Foster Ma got him all fixed up, but no one would adopt him because he is too high maintenance and his medicines are expensive. So, he became one of those foster failures!
I donāt want to become a foster failure because I donāt want to live with Gordon. Gordon is bossy. The other day Foster Ma was letting me lick the yogurt spoon and Gordon shoved me out of the way and took the spoon. RUDE! Donāt get me wrong ~ we get along great. We can hang out and watch TV and just chill. But when Gordon wants something and I got it, then he just takes it away. And I just let him take it and say whatevs. I donāt want to fightā¦. I just want to be everybullieās friend. Thatās the way I roll. Can you see that I am getting fatz? I am putting on some pounds and finally starting to fill in the extra skin thatās been hanging off my bones. I even got some fat on my ribs and Foster Ma aināt scared to give me some love pats on my sides anymore. She pats on me and tells me Iām gettinā fatz and I bounce around with joy.
Now, you probably noticed I still aināt got a whole lot of fur. I have more than I did, but because my skin was in such bad shape and I have some scarring, it may take a long time for all my hair to come back, or it may not all come back. I may always have a few bald spots. Everyone tells me that it doesnāt matter because I am so stinking cute even without the hair! With my extremely cute face and bubbly personality, I am one heck of a cute Bulldog! Not to mentionā¦. I am absolutely one of the best behaved Bulldogs ever! I am definitely the best behaved Bulldog in this house. I already told you my foster brother Gordon is bossy and he sass mouths Foster Ma. She tells him to do something and he just sasses back and he wonāt do it. Foster sister Piglet is a brat too! Foster Ma tells her to do something and she just doesnāt listen and does whatever she wants. Foster Ma tells me to do something and I jump to it! Even when she puts those stupid drops in my eyes. I dontā argue; I just sit there and be a good Bulldog for eye drops, pedicure, baths. Because I am a good boy. Yāall come see how cute I am this weekend at the Lone Star Bulldog Club Rescue alumni party! Gordon canāt come with us because heās too fatz and Foster Mom canāt lift his big butt into the car. But I will be there!
8/29/17 Update: Hey ladiesā¦.you looking for a cuddly, warm and sensitive guy? Come and check me out. I love to lay on the sofa and watch some chick flicks or binge watch some Netflix.
Dudesā¦..you looking for a chick magnet? I am your guy! According to ZZ Top, āevery girl is crazy ābout a sharp dressed man!ā And I am looking pretty sharp these days in my new digs.
I realize that I still donāt have all my fur, but I get fuzzier every day! Check me out, even without all my fur, I am pretty dang good looking! I am bouncy, fun, crate trained and house broken! I get along with everything that has fur and I think kids are pretty darn fun. I have been in Foster Care for over 6 months now recovering from the nightmare that was my former life. Froggy and I are now off of Medical Hold and we are ready to find our Happy Furever After.
Wanna Adopt?
Please view the adoption process and fill out an application at their website ---> dfwbulldogrescue.org
To view more available English Bulldogs from this rescue, click this link ---> Lone Star
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