I LOVE My Critters

As a little girl growing up in Mississippi, I remember having cats...lots of cats. I did not realize at the time how my mom must have sacrificed to give me the money to feed all those cats, but she did. Thanks, Mom! Then we had a German Shepherd, Sarge, and a Lab, Queenie. They were great dogs to grow up with. As I got older, I was way too interested in partying like a rock star, or with rock stars, or disco dancing the nights away...so I did not have any animals in my life for a very few years. I felt something missing.

Then I re-discovered the world of dogs! I never looked back. When I got my first purebred dog, Krinkle Dog, a not-very-originally named Chinese Shar-Pei, I also found the world of dog shows and I had a case of dog show fever.

In the early 90s I got my first French Bulldog, Joker, and now I was besotted with the little bat-eared gremlins. For over 15 years I ate, slept and breathed French Bulldogs. I even went to work for two different French Bulldog magazines as production manager and designer. For more on Jackpot! French Bulldogs, click and have fun. Over the years I bred and showed some of the country's top Frenchies. We had several Top Ranked and Number One Frenchies. We have had Best in Show and Best in Specialty show winners a nd bred one that won THE French Bulldog Club of America National Specialty show. And to top it off, both of Martha Stewart's French Bulldogs, Francesca and Sharkey, were bred, born and raised right here at Jackpot! French Bulldogs. Over the course of the last couple of years, I have pulled back from actively showing and breeding Frenchies, but we still have our Frenchies and Steve and I agree...we will always have French Bulldogs in our lives. We DO still have our annual Frenchie Fun Camp here at the resort every year...and that is a HOOT! E-mail for more info on that great event.

When we bought the resort I got my Newfoundland friend, Deuce, and he is a gentle, wonderful best friend. Not long after Deuce came to live here...along came Nyker my mini-horse and he is a pistol! In 2006 the alpacas joined the family and then Zoey, a Great Pyrenees, who was supposed to guard them, but she would rather be a reesort dog.

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