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Word: bichon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...American Kennel Club (AKC), hoping to help usher the 23rd purebred dog into the White House, is conducting a survey (you can vote at presidentialpup.com before Aug. 19). Since the Obama girls have allergies, the AKC has limited the ballot to five hypoallergenic breeds. It suggests that the bichon frise's history as companion to French noblemen would qualify the breed for the White House, but I'm not sure that's the image Obama's looking for. It commends the miniature schnauzer as an excellent watchdog, for a little added security, or the sweet-tempered soft-coated wheaten terrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Dog We Trust | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...center. The gift shop sells hemp dog collars, Outward Hound folding travel bowls, chews that act as doggy dental floss, and Santa-themed holiday pet bandanas. There's a vet clinic and an obedience school on site. In the brightly lit kennels, where a one-year-old fluffy little Bichon Frise mix might sit sweetly alongside an adorable stuffed gray monkey on a pink blanket in a two-room suite, you're already so charmed that it seems perfectly logical to pay $135 for a pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Personality Test for Pets | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...127th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show went to a Kerry blue terrier named TORUMS SCARF MICHAEL. The judges, who belong to that elite group of non-rappers who can say "bitch" a lot, chose Mick, as he's known for short, over 2,602 other contestants, including a bichon frise named Paray's I Told You So and a Newfoundland named Darbydale's All Rise Pouchcove. Neither Mick nor his owner, Marilu Hansen, will get any prize money, but Mick will get to breed with lots of good-looking dogs. And isn't that its own reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 24, 2003 | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...Reward offered for the capture of a motorist who threw a bichon frise dog into oncoming traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Mar. 20, 2000 | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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