“She’s beautiful, oh, she’s beautiful! Mabel’s beautiful. She’s a baby, oh, she’s a puppy!”
The way bare-knuckle boxing legend Bobby Gunn dotes on my 7-month-old French Bulldog/Boston Terrier mix makes me regret we’re not in the same room; I have a feeling they’d get along great. But even through the screen of my laptop, his genuine affection is clear.
I showed Gunn Mabel after finding out he has a French Bulldog of his own, a 12-year-old named Max who accompanies him everywhere. Gunn is just as enthusiastic when offering up this tidbit about Mabel’s terrier side: “Man, them dogs were bred for hunting rats, you know.”
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