FW: BEFORE WALDO, THERE WAS RUFF

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MCGEE'S RUFF N TUFF MR BIG STUFF N APRIL

 

BEFORE WALDO CAME ALONG, THERE WAS ANOTHER TALKING BULLDOG: RUFF.

 

RUFF WAS AN ONLY CHILD OR PUPPY.  HE WAS BUTTONS' SISTER, MADDIE'S PUPPY.

 

SINCE BUTTONS WAS SHOWN AND NEVER BRED, SHE HAS HELPED RAISE UP THE BULLDOG PUPPIES.  RUFF WAS HER NEPHEW SO HE WAS SPECIAL.

 

RUFF LOVED ALL DOGS.  HE NEVER HAD AN UNKIND WORD FOR ANYONE.  BUT WHENEVER, ANYONE WOULD VISIT AND ASK WHO HE WAS, HE WOULD ANSWER.

 

ALL THEY HAD TO SAY WAS "WHAT'S YOUR NAME?"

 

AND HE WOULD ANSWER "RUFF RUFF".

 

PEOPLE LOVED THIS AND HE ALWAYS OBLIGED.

 

I SENT HIM OUT WITH A HANDLER FOR A WEEK OF SHOWS.  SHE CAME BACK AND TOLD ME THAT EVERY NIGHT AFTER THE SHOWS, OTHER HANDLERS AND OWNERS WOULD COME TO HER MOTORHOME AND ASK IF RUFF COME COME OUTSIDE.  THEN THEY WOULD TAKE TURNS ASKING HIM HIS NAME.  SHE SAID EVERYONE LOVED HIM.

 

NOT ONLY DID HE TALK BUT HE LOVED TO DRESS UP AS WELL.

 

UNFORTUNATELY, RUFF DIED OF SLEEP APNEA WHEN HE WAS JUST BARELY 2 YEARS OLD.  THIS IS VERY COMMON IN THE LARGER HEADED AND HEAVY CHESTED BULLDOGS.  I NEVER GOT A LITTER SIRED BY HIM EITHER. 

 

ELIZABETH