I pulled these few paragraphs from the FBRN homepage. Since June 11 they have taken in 32 Frenchies. They are in desperate need of adopters, fosters, transporters, and donations. (and for those of you who love Bostons, Mid America Boston Terrier Rescue is in the same boat, and they have been working with FBRN to take in puppy mill dogs).

If anyone can help, please do so. I have sent FBRN rescue transport links that we used to get some Bostons out to the West Coast. Maybe we can get some of the Frogs out here as well.

For the full story, please visit FBRNs website.

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Since June 11, FBRN has taken in 32 Frenchies. Many of our volunteers remember the days, not so long ago, when we didn't get 32 Frenchies in a year. But now, as puppy mills go bust and the economy continues to tank, people are divesting themselves of their breeding stock and their pets, and this month has sent us reeling with the sheer numbers of dogs we have taken in. The TX13, dogs from a breeder who has become ill and must downsize; the ARK 3, from a puppy mill in trouble with the law; the MO5 from another breeding operation, and a variety of family pets, shelter dogs and strays who came a-knocking at the door. We couldn't turn them away.

We wouldn't turn them away, but can you imagine trying to find 32 foster families in less than two weeks? We have only a couple of hundred foster homes available under the best of circumstances, and at any given moment, many of those homes are unavailable for whatever reason--vacations, family emergencies, full houses, you name it. And to make matters tougher, virtually all of those needed foster homes are in the area of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, areas that are always hopping with mill dogs and shelter pulls. We found homes, but not without incredible stress on our intake coordinators, their families, and our foster managers. We had one volunteer grab her sister, get in her vegetable oil-fueled car and head out on a 19-hour road trip from Wisconsin to Missouri and back, picking up frogs and dropping them off along the way--her last delivery of the day was at 2 am and she tumbled back into her own bed at 4:30 am! We got all these frogs into foster homes, but just by the hair on our chinny chin chins. We NEED foster families. If you have considered fostering but have not yet gotten around to applying, please get in touch with Kathi Luljak, our volunteer coordinator. It takes a little while to go through the process, but if you start today, you'll be ready to help us out when the next tsunami of French bulldogs hits us broadside and we are foundering.