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LaRoyal
Bulldogs
Sara Lamont
Seems crazy to take a moment out to glance I was first introduced to the Bulldog breed
back on the thirty two years I’ve spent with the aged 6 when my family acquired a pet Bulldog.
fabulous Bulldog breed, as it feels like months This was due to the Librarian bumping into my
rather than decades. This time for reflection is Mother and asked when we were getting our
full of beautiful memories and emotions that dog. Baffled by such a random question, my
can’t be replicated or replaced, and in turn, only Mother responded with why she thought we
seems to trigger many more fabulous times and were getting a dog. The Librarian then explained
experiences. that my Brother had a book on a continual hire
because it has a ‘British Bulldog’ on the front
So where did it all begin for little old me in and he had told her some elaborate story that
this wonderful and life-changing ‘dog world’. we as a family was getting a dog ‘just like that’,
I wasn’t was born into a family that had lived, which wasn’t true.
bred or showed dogs. It wasn’t in my ‘DNA’ but
it certainly felt like the gold at the end of the My Mother approached the subject with my
rainbow, and I found a hobby I not only loved at older brother, and she had agreed we could
the weekend but became an all-consuming part get said dog if he saved half. At the time, my
of my life. Mother was blissfully unaware of the cost of
these dogs. We were a single-parent family, and
I don’t need to preach to the converted but when the compromises had to be made. At the time
you find a pure passion it dictates everything, her budget stretched to a retired breeding bitch.
the house you live in, how you furnish it, the Unfortunately, her history was a little shady and
clothes you wear (you’ll rarely see me in Black unknowingly to our novice eyes she has been
as shows way too many dog hairs), the car you ‘overbred’ to the point her body was pretty much
drive and even the career you have. defeated.
Who do I blame for this? My brother! She had a relatively short but loving life with
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