Update:  8/20/2008

Andre first came into FBVillage's custody the last week of January, 2008.  After three months in foster care, Andre was placed in an adoptive home in Oregon in May, 2008, where we hoped he could continue to receive the love and discipline that he needed to become the marvelous companion he was always intended to be.  Unfortunately, his new owners were unable to take charge of Andre and manage the pack dynamics of their newly adjusted household, and Andre found himself back on his foster mom's doorstep just three months later.  His foster mom reports that Andre is thrilled to be "home"!

Andre is an intense and powerful young French Bulldog, imported from Russia as a pup and sold to a retired couple in Kentucky as a companion.  His new family named their wild child Hotrod, and the young dog certainly lived up to his name.  He ran the people and the other dogs, a pair of sweet natured hounds, absolutely ragged.  He paid absolutely no attention to his owners' attempts to civilize him or his canine companions' requests to be left alone. 

Hotrod's owners loved him dearly, but they realized they were completely outmatched by the very energetic adolescent that Hotrod had become.  They hired a dog trainer to no avail, and while his manners might have been better as a result, the interior dog was still much too active for the quiet family in which he had found himself.  Like the incredible bouncing Tigger of Winnie the Pooh fame, Hotrod exhausted everyone around him.  Reluctantly, they turned him over to the FBVillage to find a more suitable home and peace and quiet enveloped the grateful household once again.

Hotrod was flown to a foster home in Oregon, where he met his match in his new foster mom, a lifetime dog lover and dog rescuer - and former animal control officer!  Her first order of business was to provide him with the much more sedate name of Andre.  We are happy to report that  Andre is devoting his energy to learning how to behave so that he can find a forever home of his own.